Keziah Warner
Playwright, Dramaturg, Company
UK / AUS
Keziah Warner (she/her) is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg.
Malthouse Theatre: As Writer – HOUR OF THE WOLF and NOSFERATU. Company – New Work Associate, Script Development (2025 – Current); Besen Family Artist Program (Dramaturgy, 2018).
Other Theatre: As Writer – Productions include HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER (Hotel Now); POONA (Next Wave); WHAT’S YOURS and CONTROL (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre). Developments and readings include HELP YOURSELF (Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric) and LUNA (Victorian College of the Arts).
Other: Associate Artist at Geelong Arts Centre
Awards & Nominations: 2019 Patrick White Playwrights Award winner with Sydney Theatre Company; 2025 AWGIE Award nomination for Interactive & Gaming (Hour of the Wolf); and 2024 Lysicrates Prize finalist. Keziah has been shortlisted for the Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize, the Griffin Award, Max Afford Playwrights Award, Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, Martin-Lysicrates Prize, Soho Theatre Young Writer’s Award and received Highly Commended for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.
Keziah has three plays published by Currency Press including Nosferatu, Control and What’s Yours. Keziah’s next play, Posessions, commissioned with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), is set to premiere in June 2026.
Current as of February 2026.