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Australian playwright wins Olivier Award for Prima Facie

Suzie Miller’s critically acclaimed ‘Prima Facie’ took home the awards for Best New Play and Best Actress at the 2023 Olivier Awards.

4 Apr 2023 12:56

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Suzie Miller and producer James Bierman accept the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Image: YouTube.

Australian lawyer turned playwright Suzie Miller has won one of the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, for her acclaimed one-woman drama, Prima Facie.

The Melbourne-born playwright, who moved to the UK in 2010, was presented with her Olivier Award on Sunday night UK time.

Jodie Comer, who performed Prima Facie in its UK season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (in a searing performance recorded for posterity by National Theatre Live) received the Oliver Award for Best Actress.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts