Lally Katz is a graduate of the University of Melbourne’s School of Studies in Creative Arts and studied playwrighting at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

She is a core member of Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre Company, for which she’s written The Black Swan of Trespass, The Eisteddfod and Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano.

These works have toured extensively and won several awards.

Criminology co-written with Tom Wright premiered at the Malthouse in 2008 and Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart will premiere in New York in September.

Lally is developing 9 Days Falling with NYC playwright Mac Wellman and has another play under commission with the Malthouse Theatre Company.

Most recently Lally’s plays Waikiki Palace and Hip Hip Hooray premiered in Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf2loud program as a double-bill.