ManicWorld Magazine

Stephen House is an award-winning Australian playwright, poet and actor. He’s had 20 plays produced, many of them commissioned, and many published by Australian Plays Transform. He has won two Awgie Awards from The Australian Writer’s Guild, an Adelaide Fringe Award, The Rhonda Jancovich Poetry Award for Social Justice, The Tom Collins Poetry Prize, The Goolwa Poetry Cup, Feast Short Story Prize and more.

He’s been shortlisted for Lane Cove Literary Award, Overland’s Fair Australia Fiction Prize, The Patrick White Playwright and Queensland Premier Drama Awards, Greenroom Best Actor Award and more. He’s received Australia Council literature residencies to Ireland and Canada, and an India Asialink.

He has worked with many theatre companies nationally and internationally. His chapbooks ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue are published by ICOE Press Australia. He has performed his acclaimed monologues widely, including, ‘Appalling Behaviour’ and ‘Almost Face to Face’. His poems are published often. Stephen’s play, ‘Johnny Chico’ ran in Spain for 4 years.