Mick Cummins

Mick Cummins was born in Tasmania where he wrote his first full-length play, Window Without a View. It was elected for a reading at the Australian National Playwrights Conference and produced at Hobart's Theatre Royal Backspace. In 1994 he moved to Melbourne with his partner and two children, where his second play, Perfect Madness, was developed with the Melbourne Writer's Theatre and produced at the Carlton Courthouse. In 2001 he won the NSW Premier's History Award for the documentary Thomson of Arnhem Land before co-writing the ABC docu-dramas, Monash: The Forgotten Anzac and Menzies and Churchill at War. He wrote and directed the ABC documentaries The Woodcutter's Son and Portrait of a Distant Land and has written two unproduced feature film scripts developed with Screen Tasmania, Film Victoria and Screen Australia. His latest screenplay, The Hut, is in pre-production. So Close to Home is his first novel.