Jane Harrison, a Muruwari descendant, is a researcher and writer.

Her play Stolen, premiered at Playbox Theatre in 1998, followed by seven annual seasons in Melbourne, with tours to Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the UK (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, plus readings in Canada and New York.

Stolen was on the VCE English and NSW HSC syllabi and a co-winner of the 2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award.

Her play On a Park Bench was workshopped at the Banff playrites Colony and was a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize.

She contributed one chapter to Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, published by the National Library, Canberra.

Her play Rainbow’s End premiered in 2005 in Melbourne, had a production in Tokyo in March, 2007 and was published in Contemporary Indigenous Plays in 2007.

It will appear on the NSW HSC English syllabus in 2009 – 2012.

Jane was the 2006 Theatrelab Indigenous Award Winner for Blakvelvet and in 2007 she won the Peter Holmes a Court Indigenous Award for her latest play Custody.