Adam Fawcett (they/them) is a queer playwright and screenwriter who lives and works on Djaara country in the Central Highlands of regional Victoria.
With a practice focused on exploring queerness, connection and trauma through text, their debut play, Become The One, a romantic two-hander exploring the collision between sport, sexuality and identity, won the 2018 Midsumma Queer Playwriting Award before premiering at Gasworks Arts Park in Melbourne for the 2019 Midsumma Festival.
Become The One went on to tour nationally in 2022, visiting 16 regional and metro venues across Victoria and NSW. A 21-episode TikTok series is currently in post-production via Matthewswood Productions, with Adam attached as screenwriter.
Adam’s follow up play, Every Lovely Terrible Thing, an ensemble-led family comedy-drama, was co-presented by Theatre Works and Lab Kelpie in March 2024 to critical acclaim, with one reviewer calling it “a play to see and remember as part of the Australian canon.” (What Did She Think?)
Their third play, Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, was a finalist in the 2024 Midsumma Queer Playwriting Award, while their work of prose fiction, Black Rainbow, was a finalist in the 2024 Pearl Prize.