Michelle is also an advocate for social causes and has presented a TEDx talk, as well as being a prolific speaker about issues concerning intersectional feminism, cultural identity and race, and youth issues. Some of her television credits include Get Krack!n (ABC), The Bureau of Magical Things (Network 10) and Rosehaven (ABC). It was also nominated for Best Online Video or Series at the AACTA Awards.Īs a screenwriter, Michelle has worked on shows for television networks such as the ABC, SBS, Fox8, Network 10, and The Nine Network. The series won Best Web Series at the Australian Writers Guild awards, Best Screenplay at Melbourne Web Fest, and Best Performance in a Comedy series at the Equity Ensemble Awards. Michelle co-created, co-wrote and starred in the series Homecoming Queens, the first web series commissioned by SBS On Demand. In 2021, Auckland Theatre Company staged an original production of the work. The show returned to La Boite with Michelle performing in it, and toured to Melbourne. She wrote the highly acclaimed play Single Asian Female – commissioned by La Boite Theatre Company – which earned 5-star reviews before transferring to a sold-out season at Belvoir St Theatre in 2018. Michelle Law is a writer with experience in journalism, screenwriting and playwriting. It’s irreverent, it’s heartfelt, and it has a cast of fabulous women (plus the perennial Charles Wu). Her Single Asian Female lit up Belvoir with its exuberance and its loving portrait of family. Michelle Law has an unerring nose for a fabulous comic premise, and she’s a naturalborn entertainer. Join us at the theatre for an evening of laughter, tears, and pageantry! – Michelle Law Miss Peony will be performed in English, Cantonese and Mandarin (with surtitles in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese), making it inclusive for multilingual friends and family members. Third time’s a charm, right! This year we’ll be touring our debut season, bringing all of the glitz, glamour and ghostliness of Miss Peony to cities across the east coast of Australia. I’m so excited to finally be sharing Miss Peony with Australia after two false starts due to Covid. Glitzy and madcap, Miss Peony is a bold new comedy about our good old need for connection – to family, the past, the future, each other.Īnd for the first time ever we’re offering a show in three languages: as in real life, these characters switch between English, Cantonese and Mandarin, so the show is surtitled in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. So Poh Poh pushes Lily into entering the highly competitive Miss Peony, and no matter how hard Lily tries to wriggle out of it, her grandma won’t take no for an answer.Īnd to make matters worse, she’s a ghost. She sees a granddaughter caught between worlds. She doesn’t care that times have changed, that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. A comedy of beauty pageants, unrealistic expectations, and the business of family.
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