Elly Varrenti
Elly Varrenti | |
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| Born | May 5, 1960 Melbourne |
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| Years active | 1989-present |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | https://ellyvarrenti.website |
Elly Varrenti is an Australian columnist, freelance writer, teacher, actress and broadcaster.[1]
As an actress and singer she has performed with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, La Mama, Theatreworks and ABC Radio National. Ms Varrenti has also appeared in several television serials.[2][3]
As a radio broadcaster she has worked for community radio 3RRR, ABC Melbourne and ABC Radio National.[4]
In 2008 Penguin Books published her memoir This Is Not My Beautiful Life[5][6] and a short story in the anthology How We Met.[7][8]
Affirm Press published Ms Varrenti's story, Seriously funny, in the anthology of women’s writing, She’s Having a Laugh[9][10][11] in 2015.
As a freelance writer and columnist she has contributed to The Age, The Australian, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Mamamia,[12] Hoopla, Daily Life, The Good Weekend, The Australian Education Union, The Big Issue and Daily Review.[13]
She was a theatre critic for The Melbourne Times from 2007 to 2009, for The Age from 2011 to 2012, and a book critic for The Australian and The Age in 2016 and 2017.
She taught Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2014 and at the University of Melbourne in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Elly Varrenti". AusStage. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ Heartbreak High
- ^ Blue Heelers (season 13)
- ^ "Life Matters". Radio National. ABC. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ "This Is Not My Beautiful Life". NLA Trove. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ Varrenti, Elly (2008), This is not my beautiful life, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-07198-2
- ^ "How We Met". NLA Trove. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ Adams, Jessica (2007), How we met : true confessions of love, lust and that fateful first meeting, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-300568-1
- ^ "She's Having A Laugh". Affirm Press. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "She's Having a Laugh". NLA Trove. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ She's having a laugh : 25 of Australian's funniest women on life, love and comedy, 2015, ISBN 978-1-922213-81-5
- ^ "Elly Varrenti". Mamamia. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ "Elly Varrenti". Daily Review. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
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