Bio - Adam Fawcett | Playwright & Screenwriter

Adam is an Australian-based stage and screen writer living and creating on Djaara country in Hepburn Springs, Victoria.

Known for creating emotionally charged stories that probe contemporary life, their work often explores identity, the performance of gender, and masculinity as a pathology.

Subjects like intergenerational trauma, the solarpunk movement, class, estrangement and revenge are themes that Adam is currently investigating.

They are a 3-time finalist in Midsumma’s Queer Playwriting Award, winning in 2018 for their debut play, Become The One.

A romantic two-hander exploring the collision between sport, sexuality and identity, Become The One went on to tour nationally in 2022, visiting 16 regional and metro venues.

Fawcett’s exquisite writing is undoubtedly the highlight of this production.

It has been a long time since I have seen an original Australian play with a really classic feel and timbre. I mean the kind of play which resonates with the depth of plays like Summer of The Seventeenth Doll or The One Day of The Year for example. Every Lovely Terrible Thing sits, rather surprisingly, in that wheelhouse. Fawcett has created a great piece of text-based theatre written with confidence and depth. This is a play to see and remember as part of the Australian canon.

Endlessly surprising and enigmatic. This two-hour dramedy breaks new ground by finding camp in an unlikely place: childhood trauma.

A TikTok series of Become The One is currently in post-production via Matthewswood Productions, with Adam attached as screenwriter for all 21 episodes.

They recently presented Every Lovely Terrible Thing, a two-act family drama that asked whether a family can ever survive an honest reckoning with itself. It premiered at Theatre Works in 2024 to critical acclaim.

Adam is currently working on their next play, Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, while continuing to develop future stories.