MAKI MORITA
writer & performance-maker
makimorita123@gmail.com
Theatre / performance
becoming ghosts | producer, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre for Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023
Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise | writer, reading at fortyfivedownstairs (May 2022), debut season at TheatreWorks (March-April 2023)
dance piece | live art/interactive performance installation, exhibited as part of ‘Labour Lexica’ group show at Linden New Art, Nov-Dec 2022
Club Nite | dramaturg, Miscellania, June 2022
We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now | secondment, TheatreWorks, Jan-Feb 2021
Yellow Swan | writer, Guild Theatre, Four Letter Word Theatre, May 2019
Film
Mirage | writer/director, independent production, 2019
Prose
Girlhoods, The Suburban Review, issue 33, May 2024
A thousand gifts, Island Magazine, Mar 2024
All-natural, cruelty-free, zero-waste soy byproduct burgers to spice up your weeknight dinner!,
More Than Melanin, issue 3, Aug 2023
thinking about autumn in winter, Cordite Poetry Review, issue 109, May 2023
Suburban queerness / the anomaly of dandelions, Mascara Literary Review, issue 28, Feb 2023
Japs: a disorganised history, Portside Review, issue 4, Dec 2021
Events
Artist at National Young Writers Festival, Sept 2023
Artist at Emerging Writers Festival, Jun 2023
Poetry reading at 4 SZNS, Factory Sessions, Jan 2023
Reading for Next Big Thing: Hot Desk Edition #3, The Wheeler Centre, Nov 2022
Artist at National Young Writers Festival, Sept 2022
Monologue reading for Yardstick #4, Hare Hole Fitzroy, June 2022
Feminist Book Week, workshop facilitator, Oct 2021
Awards, grants & residencies
Queer Futures Fund, Wear It Purple, July 2023
Wheeler Centre Playwright Hot Desk Fellowship, Sept-Dec 2022
George Fairfax Memorial Award, June 2022
City of Melbourne Arts Grant, Jan 2022
Lesbians Incorporated Community Grant, Oct 2021
Next In Line, shortlist, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, 2021-2022
Portland House Theatre Outreach Scholarship, University of Melbourne, June 2020
Official selection for ‘Mirage’ at Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020
Official selection for ‘Mirage’ at The Setting Sun Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Global Scholars Award, 2016
Education
2020 Master of Theatre (Writing), Victorian College of the Arts
GPA: 86, first class honours
2018 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne
GPA: 80.6, first class honours
Other relevant experience
Rosie editor, Victorian Women’s Trust, June 2021-current
Participant in Yumi Umiumare’s IN-VOCATIONたまおこしworkshop, March 2023
Intesive mentorship with playwright Sibyl Kempson in New York, Aug-Sept 2022
Participant in Express Media’s Toolkits: Fiction program May-June 2021
Freelance writer for Fashion Journal, Oct 2019-Feb 2021
Committee member of Four Letter Word Theatre 2020
Participant of Behind the Screens program, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Sept 2019
Participant of Theatre making with Western Edge Youth Arts, SIGNAL, Jan 2019
Music Program Coordinator for Summer Dreaming Festival, April 2019
Editorial intern at ACCLAIM magazine, 2016-2017
writer & performance-maker
makimorita123@gmail.com
Theatre / performance
becoming ghosts | producer, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre for Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023
Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise | writer, reading at fortyfivedownstairs (May 2022), debut season at TheatreWorks (March-April 2023)
dance piece | live art/interactive performance installation, exhibited as part of ‘Labour Lexica’ group show at Linden New Art, Nov-Dec 2022
Club Nite | dramaturg, Miscellania, June 2022
We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now | secondment, TheatreWorks, Jan-Feb 2021
Yellow Swan | writer, Guild Theatre, Four Letter Word Theatre, May 2019
Film
Mirage | writer/director, independent production, 2019
Prose
Girlhoods, The Suburban Review, issue 33, May 2024
A thousand gifts, Island Magazine, Mar 2024
All-natural, cruelty-free, zero-waste soy byproduct burgers to spice up your weeknight dinner!,
More Than Melanin, issue 3, Aug 2023
thinking about autumn in winter, Cordite Poetry Review, issue 109, May 2023
Suburban queerness / the anomaly of dandelions, Mascara Literary Review, issue 28, Feb 2023
Japs: a disorganised history, Portside Review, issue 4, Dec 2021
Events
Artist at National Young Writers Festival, Sept 2023
Artist at Emerging Writers Festival, Jun 2023
Poetry reading at 4 SZNS, Factory Sessions, Jan 2023
Reading for Next Big Thing: Hot Desk Edition #3, The Wheeler Centre, Nov 2022
Artist at National Young Writers Festival, Sept 2022
Monologue reading for Yardstick #4, Hare Hole Fitzroy, June 2022
Feminist Book Week, workshop facilitator, Oct 2021
Awards, grants & residencies
Queer Futures Fund, Wear It Purple, July 2023
Wheeler Centre Playwright Hot Desk Fellowship, Sept-Dec 2022
George Fairfax Memorial Award, June 2022
City of Melbourne Arts Grant, Jan 2022
Lesbians Incorporated Community Grant, Oct 2021
Next In Line, shortlist, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, 2021-2022
Portland House Theatre Outreach Scholarship, University of Melbourne, June 2020
Official selection for ‘Mirage’ at Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020
Official selection for ‘Mirage’ at The Setting Sun Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Global Scholars Award, 2016
Education
2020 Master of Theatre (Writing), Victorian College of the Arts
GPA: 86, first class honours
2018 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne
GPA: 80.6, first class honours
Other relevant experience
Rosie editor, Victorian Women’s Trust, June 2021-current
Participant in Yumi Umiumare’s IN-VOCATIONたまおこしworkshop, March 2023
Intesive mentorship with playwright Sibyl Kempson in New York, Aug-Sept 2022
Participant in Express Media’s Toolkits: Fiction program May-June 2021
Freelance writer for Fashion Journal, Oct 2019-Feb 2021
Committee member of Four Letter Word Theatre 2020
Participant of Behind the Screens program, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Sept 2019
Participant of Theatre making with Western Edge Youth Arts, SIGNAL, Jan 2019
Music Program Coordinator for Summer Dreaming Festival, April 2019
Editorial intern at ACCLAIM magazine, 2016-2017