Ra Chapman

Writer

Ra is a Korean-Australian playwright and screenwriter.

She is an adoptee and has strong ties with the adoption community, working closely with inter-country adoptees and diverse artists.

She is an alumni of the Besen Writers Group (Malthouse Theatre) and was awarded the 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Playwright Fellowship. Her play K- Box, which won the 2021 Patrick White Playwright Award, was due to premiere in 2020 on the mainstage at Malthouse Theatre but was postponed thanks to Covid-19. It instead premiered in 2022, and recently enjoyed a very successful run at the Malthouse Theatre. She is also an Artist in Residence at Malthouse Theatre.

In 2018 Ra was selected to take part in StoryLab, a Film Victoria development program for diverse screenwriters and in 2019 she was the program co-ordinator for StoryLab 2.0. In the same year she attended the AFTRS State Talent Camp and subsequently earned herself a place in the highly competitive 2020 AFTRS National Talent Camp.

In 2018 Ra was selected to take part in StoryLab, a Film Victoria development program for diverse screenwriters and in 2019 she was the program co-ordinator for StoryLab 2.0. In the same year she attended the AFTRS State Talent Camp and subsequently earned herself a place in the highly competitive 2020 AFTRS National Talent Camp.

ABC recently greenlit Ra’s TV series White Fever and it is now in post production. Ra created, wrote, starred in and produced the series along with A Black Sheep Films, Orange Entertainment Co. and Unruly Production. It will go to air this year. Ra also wrote and starred in episode of the horror web series Night Bloomers for Turn About Entertainment and SBS which recently premiered on SBS On Demand.

She recently co-wrote Because The Night (a Hamlet adaptation) for the Malthouse Theatre, an immersive theatre work on a scale never seen before in Australia. Ra is currently developing various projects with other writers and makers across television and theatre, and is under commission by the Malthouse Theatre.

Ra is also an award winning stage and screen actor. She won the Best Actress award at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival, U.S. for her role as Therese in David Williamson’s film adaptation of Face To Face and was nominated for an IF Award for Best Actress for the same performance. Ra played the role of prisoner Kim Chang on 5 seasons of the award-winning Foxtel series Wentworth.

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