Jamie Hornsby is an award-winning playwright, performer, composer, photographer and emerging screenwriter. He recently won the Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Award at the Ruby Awards, South Australia’s biggest arts and culture award ceremony. He is the winner of two AWGIE Awards, including the prestigious David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, and serves on the Australian Writers’ Guild’s South Australian committee. His work has been seen nationally and internationally, most recently with his play Python being presented for three Off-Broadway readings as part of the 2024 Australian Theatre Festival NYC. He has been commissioned three times by Jopuka Productions, most recently for The Boys on the Bus, remounted in 2023 at ATYP’s Rebel Theatre in Sydney. He has written for ActNow Theatre/State Theatre Company South Australia’s Decameron 2.0, and he has been a finalist in the Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, the Stoddard Playwright Award, and the Australian Theatre Festival’s New Play Award. He has been described in Stage Whispers as “a major voice in Australian playwriting” and The Barefoot Review as “one of the most promising young playwrights in the country today”. He is the cofounder of acclaimed independent theatre company Madness of Two, whose most recent production Starweaver premiered as part of the State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2024 STATESIDE Season to rave reviews. He is a graduate of Adelaide College of the Arts as an actor.