Van Badham

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney

Van Badham’s first novel, Burnt Snow was published by PanMacmillan in 2010. The second volume of the paranormal saga, White Rain, is released SOON. Van was born in Sydney and began her writing career as a playwright, staging her first professional play at 15. Her plays have appeared in Australia, the UK, Germany, the USA, Iceland, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland. She has been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, was the first Australian playwright selected for New York’s Summer Play Festival, has won a Queensland Premier’s Award and the NSDF International Playscript Competition and written for BBC TV and radio. An award-winning critic and screenwriter, she also writes for music theatre.