Campion Decent

Campion is Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre in Albury-Wodonga. His previous appointments include Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival, Festival Director for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Chair of the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre. 

He holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and a Master of Arts (Theatre Studies) from the University of NSW, and attended the NIDA Playwrights Studio and is a produced and published playwright. 

Campion has had a long association with HotHouse Theatre as an Artistic Directorate member since 2003 and as writer of the play Embers, commissioned by HotHouse Theatre and produced in 2006 with Sydney Theatre Company. Embers won an AWGIE Award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Drama Script (Stage) in 2007; and was shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Other performance writing includes Shootings (ABC Radio), Baby X (Mardi Gras/CDP/Playbox & published by Currency Press), Three Winters Green (Mardi Gras), Short Circuits (Sydney Festival), Collar of Thistles (ANPC/NIDA) and the Judi Connelli cabaret Back to Before (New York/Australian tour). Embers was published last year and tours nationally from August. Campion is currently under commission with HotHouse Theatre.