Stephen House

Stephen has had 20 plays and four short films produced, and five Exhibitions. He is commissioned often and directs/performs his work. He has won two AWGIE Awards from The Australian Writers Guild, an Adelaide Fringe Award and many press awards and was Shortlisted for the Patrick White and Queensland Premier Drama Awards. He has received International literature residencies from The Australia Council to Canada, USA and Ireland, an Asia-link literature residency India and an Island Of Residencies to Tasmania.

His plays have been read, toured and produced and he has performed nationally and internationally. His plays have been profiled and published and are available through both The Australian Script Centre and Currency Press. He has been Artistic Director of many events including community arts events and productions. He has worked with many theatre companies nationally.

Stephen performed his acclaimed solo show, Appalling Behaviour widely between 2010 and 2013. His latest work Almost Face To Face opened at La Mama Theatre Melbourne to critical acclaim in 2014.

ALMOST FACE TO FACE

by Stephen House

Written during an Irish Literature Residency, Almost Face to Face takes a risky journey into a hidden Dublin world. Moving, brutal, dark and funny, this new work about indulgent creative chaos and lives on-the-very-edge, asks – is it ever too late to finally face up to what you have become?

“House’s hotwired poetry evokes a liminal world of damaged souls locked in a struggle between pleasure and survival, hedonism and desperation… It’s lurid and confronting, ultimately touching theatre populated by sex workers and drunks, violent drug addicts and battered youth, anonymous gay liaisons and underground ice parties.” – Cameron Woodhead, The Age