Episode 7 – Michelle Law
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November 18, 2018
And we’re back! For our Season Two premiere, playwright, actor and screenwriter Michelle Law joins us to chat about her recent trip to Hollywood, her earliest forays into writing, and the joys and challenges of creating the award-winning web series Homecoming Queens.
Links to topics discussed:
Homecoming Queens is available to watch via SBS On Demand
‘Single Asian Female review – no topic is taboo in Michelle Law’s impressive debut‘ – Yen-Rong Wong’s review for the Guardian
Shout out to:
Odette’s album To A Stranger
Alice Pung’s newest book Close to Home: Selected Writings
Michelle Law is a freelance writer based in Sydney, Australia. She writes for print, film and television, and theatre. As a screenwriter, she has received an Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE award for her interactive media work, and had her films screened on the ABC and at film festivals locally and abroad. She has also been a recipient of the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award.
Her debut play Single Asian Female was staged in Brisbane and Sydney to sold out audiences. Homecoming Queens, the web series she co-created, co-wrote and stars in, premiered on SBS On Demand this year – the first online series commissioned by SBS. She is currently working on the feature film adaptation of Alice Pung’s young adult novel Laurinda.