theatARGH is the child of frustration and boredom and love, born by me, Chris Summers. I’m a student at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Creative Arts / Law degree. I am also an Arts Officer with the University of Melbourne Student Union.

I’ve written several scripts and won the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwright Award in 2005. My script Bridge won the 2008 St Martin’s Emerging Playwright’s Award 18-30yrs category and will receive a reading alongside another work, Dinosaur, in December 2009. I was Assistant Director to Alyson Campbell on the Red Stitch production of ‘4.48 Psychosis’ in 2007, and in 2008, I worked with Union House Theatre as Assistant Director to Susie Dee on ‘Attempts on her Life’. I’ve had short stories, essays and poetry included in publications such as VoiceWorks and Farrago, as well as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Griffith Review.

I have lived in Melbourne for three years, having relocated from Sydney at the beginning of 2006. Since then I have seen countless theatre productions, from amateur to fringe to MIAF, from Theatreworks to upstairs Kent St, and have found myself completely immersed in the theatre culture of Melbourne.

I enjoy reading 80s self-help books, op-shopping and attempting to purchase light globes which fit my IKEA lamps without having to return to IKEA.

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