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MAJOR PLAYS
SANITY - A LOCKDOWN PLAY (2020, One-Act Play)
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First performed 16-18 December, 2020. Directed by Clare Moss.
In an imaginary place that's part-dream world, part-modern home and part-asylum, dwell five women and two men. They can't go anywhere - they're in lockdown. Living lives that are limited by the walls around them, they muse about the meaning of life, God, battery hens, their hopes for the future, and whether or not they're sane.
This is a play for 2020 and beyond, reflecting on what we've been through and what we've yet to discover.  
Original Cast

Woman 1 ... Isabella Richardson
Woman 2 ... Sarah McDowall
Woman 3 ... Aphrodite Waters
Woman 4 ... Victoria Clarke
Woman 5 ... Divya Agrawal
Man 1 ... Rhys Kerec
Man 2 ... Dyllan Ormazabal

THE PARK (2020, One-Act Play)
First performed 13-15 November 2020. Directed by Sarah Carroll.

The park is a place for friends, families and lovers. And sometimes it's a place for important conversations.
Original Cast
Poco ... Zelda Trichard
Nora ... Courtney Buse
Torvald ... Nicholas Pardy
Romeo ... Josh Knight
Demetrius ... George Beliabassakis
Hermia ... Courtney Bocking
Helena ... Ali Ardern
Tony ... Tony Gorst
Maria ... Tobi Odusote
Liza ... Max Jansen

CHEZ FRANCOIS (2019, One-Act Play)
Three teenage girls prepare for their formal at a local hairdresser. But where is Erin? She's late...
A coming-of-age play about body image and sexual assault. 
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First performed 2-4 July, 2019, at the Perform Australia theatre. Directed by James Scott.
Original cast:

Janine … Hannah Lopez
Chrissie … Tegan Lewis
François … Rieley Hole
Sophie … April Hand
Becca … Samantha Huggins
Lauren … Jessica Fellows
Erin … Caitlin Gooding
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ALL THAT I AM AND ALL THAT I HAVE (2018, Full-length Play)
So what’s love got to do with it? In this series of vignettes about the world’s most universal subject—love—we see a delightful and quirky ensemble of characters learn what it’s like to be vulnerable... in what are sometimes hilarious, but sometimes hopeless situations.

First performed 19-21 October, 2018, at the Perform Australia Theatre. Directed by Craig Alexander.
Original cast:
Jonas … Ryan Bottles
Clementine … Britnee Olsen
Millie … Emilie Martin
Mick … Callum Wilson
Chandler … Chris O’Neil
Carol … Ko Kwan
Penny … Sarah Bergman
Charlotte … Kate Maude
Raquel … Maxine Beaumont
Serena … Michelle Milbourne
Vivienne … Cassandra Nolan
Peter … Chandra Kommalapati

THE RATIONAL DRESS SOCIETY AND OTHER TALES (2017, Full-length Play)
The Rational Dress Society And Other Tales is the story of the Victorian corset and its unseemly demise.  
Set in a Victorian music hall, this play-with-music takes us back to a time when the Corset - that classic undergarment forming the perfect silhouette - was used not only to support women, but to control them.

Seen through the eyes of a range of historical characters - from Oscar Wilde, to suffragettes, to gymnastics instructors, and indeed, members of the Rational Dress Society from which the play takes its name - the  corset's dalliance with the female form is observed, marvelled at and... rightly questioned.

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In the vein of the BBC's Horrible Histories, The Rational Dress Society and Other Tales takes its audience on a romp through nineteenth century mores, fashions and values... to discover a world that's perhaps not so different from our own.
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First performed 1-3 November, 2017, at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Directed by Clare Moss.
Original cast:

Burlesque … Angela Ford
Ringmaster … Jayme Markus
Girl In Pantaloons … Laura Higgins
Heckler/Bystander/Man … Jake Giddings
Mother/Correspondent/Madame Osterberg  … Amelia Forsyth-Smith
Teacher/Male Poet/Paul Poiret … Amy Tipler
Corsetier/Suffragette/Mackinley/Mary Phelps Jacob … Anneliese Cox
Correspondent/Dr Alexander/Oscar Wilde … Cara Matthews
Barrister/Suffragette Leader/Female Poet … Ellen Woszatka
Handsome Young Man/Correspondent … Harison Butler
Correspondent/Corsetier/Suffragette … Hannah Miller
Correspondent/Mrs Smith/B.O. Flower … Michaela Slater
Edward Ferrero/Mrs Ecob/Snyde … Phoebe Black
Suffragette/Gymnast/Corsetier/Bottomley … Isabella Quinn
Lady Harberton/Dr Drake/Flapper … Summa Connolly
Accompanist … Mark Johnson
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AUSTRALURBIA (2016, ONE-ACT PLAY)
While Australia’s popular image is built on its sweeping landscapes, rugged terrain and nasty predators, the reality is that most of us live away from these things, in tribes, in suburbia. And that’s what this play is about. Australurbia is a series of humorous vignettes exploring our social isolation as well as our connectedness, with the home as the focal point of the great Australian dream.

Performed at the CADA Theatre, 16-18 November, 2016.
Directed by James Scott.

Claudia … Genevieve Ridgway
Nana … Amy Gilmore
Harry … Russell Nash
Delma … Anneka van der Velde
Jono … Ash Hamilton-Smith
Gail … Renee Boyle
Jake … Patrick Uren
Wazza … Samuel Bruce
Bazza … Robert Shiells
Gazza … Rodney Dwyer
Shazza … Maddison Hughes
Lien … Jenny Ng
Wenona … Tijana Kovac 
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THE SOUND OF MUSICALS (2014, PLAY WITH MUSIC)
Co-written with Glenn Braithwaite
A history of musical theatre on the stage! Traverse some 2000 years of musical theatre and be mesmerised by some of the art form's "greatest hits".

​Performed in 2014 at the CADA Theatre, Canberra, 19-21 November, 2014
Original cast: Izaac Beach, Monica Engel, Jennifer Marlton and Casey Walsh.

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LIES, LOVE AND HITLER (2010, FULL-LENGTH PLAY)
Dr Paul Langley, age 39, is slightly mad. Like most academics, he has a very good brain - it's just that he thinks it's a little out of whack - mainly because he keeps seeing visions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the dead man whose life and work he's been studying for years. Langley finds himself in trouble when he falls for one of his students and finds she has a secret which threatens to destroy them both. Against the backdrop of Bonhoeffer's broad, history-making decisions, we see Langley's very personal ones. Bonhoeffer walks Langley through his inner conflict and Langley learns why, in morally ambiguous circumstances, it's sometimes necessary to risk everything for a better future.

LIES, LOVE AND HITLER was shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award in 2009, under the title, My Own Private Bonhoeffer, and had its world premiere at Canberra’s Street Theatre in 2010 as part of the ‘Made in Canberra’ series, where it enjoyed a sellout, extended season.

First performed at The Street Theatre, Canberra. Directed by PJ Williams.
Original Cast:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ... Dallas Bland
Langley ... James Scott
Hannah ... Hanna Cormick
MEDIA
  • https://www.australianstage.com.au/201011184051/reviews/canberra/lies-love-and-hitler-%7C-cada.html
  • https://lisathatcher.com/2014/04/23/love-lies-and-hitler-elizabeth-avery-scott-places-the-modern-moral-dilemma-central-stage-theatre-review/
  • https://hope1032.com.au/stories/life/inspirational-stories/2014/lies-love-and-hitler-meet-dietrich-bonhoeffer/
  • https://www.publicchristianity.org/person/elizabeth-avery-scott/
  • https://thebrag.com/love-lies-hitler/
  • https://suzygoessee.com/2014/04/24/lies-love-and-hitler-cada-studio-productions-sydney-independent-theatre-company/
  • https://cityhubsydney.com.au/2014/04/lies-love-and-hitler/

A TREE IN THE FOREST (2004, FULL-LENGTH PLAY)
One-man show, first performed at The Black Stump Festival, Appin, NSW. Directed by Elizabeth Scott.
Original Cast:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ... James Scott

SHORT PLAYS
OLD KING COLE HAS A TOOTHACHE (SHORT PLAY)
Performed by children at the Performathon 2020 Livestream.

THE KING WHO WASN'T (SHORT PLAY)
Performed by children at the Performathon 2020 Livestream.

THE QUEEN OF CATS (SHORT PLAY)
Performed by children at the Performathon 2020 Livestream.

DOGS VERSUS CATS (SHORT PLAY)
Performed by children at Canberra Academy of Dramatic Art, 2014

LOVER'S VOWS (SHORT PLAY)
Performed at the Jane Austen Festival, Canberra, 2014. Directed by Brendan Kelly.

FIVE MINUTES MORE (SHORT PLAY)
Performed at the ACT Government International Women's Day celebrations, Canberra, 2012. Starring Anastasia Scott and Clare Moss. Directed by James Scott.

A TEEN'S GUIDE TO PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (SHORT PLAY)
Performed at the Jane Austen Festival, Canberra, 2013. Directed by James Scott.

FILMS
UNIDENTIFIED (2020)
Short film written by Elizabeth Avery Scott. Directed by James Scott. Currently submitted to film festivals.
MONKEY MIND
Short film written by Elizabeth Avery Scott. Directed by Caroline Simone O'Brien.
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