Sydney-based playwright Suneeta Peres da Costa's second novel, Oblivion, upon which she worked during her time at MacDowell, is currently being negotiated by Heat (Australia). Her previous novel was Homework (Bloomsbury, 1999). She has a radio play, The Art of Straying, on the life and death of Walter Benjamin, due for broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001.
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Suneeta Peres da Costa
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Annandale, AUSTRALIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
Studios
Irving Fine
Suneeta Peres da Costa worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…