From Currency Press:
The playwright, novelist and short-story writer, Bill Reed, has won national awards in each category. He is undoubtedly best known for his Burke’s Company, which prompted Professor Dennis Carroll in his ‘Contemporary Australian Theatre’ to write: ‘... it was Reed in Burke’s Company who pioneered Artaudian techniques in a play of stature’. His Truganinni has been produced many times around Australia, and was described by Aubrey Mellor OAM as ‘a rare expressionistic work’.
His other plays include The Pecking Order (Hole-in-the-Wall), Mr Siggie Morrison with His Comb and Paper (SATC Adelaide Festival),Jack Charles is Up and Fighting (Ninethana), Basically Black (co-author, Nimrod), Just Out of Your Ground (La Trobe), Cass Butcher Bunting (winner Monash Theatre award, Alexander Theatre), Bullsh (Playbox), More Bullsh (Playbox), You Want It, Don’t You, Billy?(MTC, Nimrod), Talking to a Mirror (Playbox, now Mirror, Mirror), Auntie and the Girl (Playbox). Additionally, of professional workshop status, were: Daddy the 8th, Truganinni Inside, Paddlesteamer, I Don’t Know What to Do with You!.
He has now nine plays available in print and ebook formats.
Bill Reed has had eleven novels published from which, in her ‘Expressway’ (Penguin), the critic Helen Daniel stated, “My choice for the most neglected Australian author’. He won the ANA award for literature and has had several Miles Franklin near-misses. Of his short stories, six have been winners or runners-up in national competitions and have been published in anthologies.
In gainful employment, he has been a journalist and book editor, including Publisher of three of Australia’s leading book publishers. In recent times, he has divided his time between Australia and Sri Lanka.