Michelle Law on writing for stage, print and screen

About this episode

Michelle Law discusses her experiences and insights on writing for various mediums including stage, print, and screen.

We're joined on Breaking Screen by Michelle Law, a writer and actor who writes for print, theatre and screen. Throughout the episode, Michelle talks about the differences in writing for those three mediums, her writing process, managing her time as a freelancer to avoid burnout, juggling parenting and working in the industry, and much more. Michelle has been published in numerous Australian books, literary journals, and magazines, and her travel book, Asian Girls are Going Places, was published by Hardie Grant in 2022. As a playwright, she's written Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company 2022), Miss Peony (Belvoir St Theatre 2023), and the smash-hit play Single Asian Female (numerous, 2017 - 2022), which had sold out seasons across the east coast of Australia as well as in New Zealand. In screen, Michelle was the co-creator, co-writer and co-lead of the AWGIE-award winning SBS series Homecoming Queens, as well as writing episodes of Bureau of Magical Things and Safe Home. This episode marks Breaking Screen's final episode of 2025! The podcast will be back in early 2026.

People in this episode

Host: Caris Bizzaca

Guest: Michelle Law

Topics covered

• writing
• theatre
• screenwriting
• freelancing
• parenting
• burnout

Keywords

• Michelle Law
• writing process
• theatre
• screenwriting
• freelancing
• burnout
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, SBS

Books & works: Asian Girls are Going Places, Top Coat, Miss Peony, Single Asian Female, Homecoming Queens, Bureau of Magical Things, Safe Home

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