Peta Murray

Peta Murray is a writer-performer, theatre-maker and cross-arts collaborator who continues to re-invent herself through creative artfoolness and public acts of meaningful irreverence. A Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, she co-manages and teaches into the Creative Writing Program. She also conducts collaborative research projects in socially engaged arts practices with a specific interest in the nexus between arts-and-health, queerness and ageing, and the emerging field that she and her colleagues proclaim is Diarology.Peta’s interdisciplinary practice includes playwriting, short fiction, essay and memoir. She also makes hybrid and performative outputs with preposterous names like Things That Fall Over: an anti-musical of a novel inside a reading of a play with footnotes, and oratorio-as-coda. A constant neologiser and longtime mischief-maker, Peta co-founded The Groundswell Project with Dr Kerrie Noonan. Her works about matters of life and death (Vigil/Wake; Missa Pro Venerabilibus) have seen production at Arts House and Footscray Community Arts.