What’s funnier (and sexier) than Fifty Shades of Grey? Long before E.L. James turned her Twilight fantasies into a cash cow, there was Erotic Fan Fiction – a crowd favourite and unstoppable cultural phenomenon.
Four writers will share a piece of self-penned smut about a celebrity or fictional character. And just as the characters in these sex-soaked tales shed their inhibitions (and their clothes), our writers say goodbye to good taste and polite restraint, in favour of gasp-inducing humour and fantastical fun.
It’s all about sex, sex, sex … and celebrity.
With Wes Snelling, Zora Sanders, Van Badham, Travis Cotton and host Virginia Gay.
Featuring
Travis Cotton
Travis Cotton’s first play, The Fifth at Randwick, won Naked Theatre Company’s Top Shorts competition. It has gone on to play in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne – as did his second play, God, The Devil, and the true history of mankind.
Travis co-wrote the musical Blasted Earth with Toby Schmitz and Tim Minchin, which played at the Old Fitzroy in Sydney. His fourth play, Rites of Evil, played at Red Stitch Theatre Company.
Travis enjoys contributing to the Australian arts community and hopes to for the rest of his life.
Zora Sanders
Zora Sanders is a writer, editor and internet connoisseur.
She is currently the deputy editor of Meanjin Quarterly and has previously worked as reviews editor for Arena magazine and as editor of Farrago. She is a contributor to ScreenMachine.tv and a selection of other blogs far too silly to mention here.
Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be cop on Savage River (ABC), and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot ...
Tina Del Twist
Truly unique, Tina Del Twist is Australia’s much-loved nightingale, known for her ‘beautiful voice and wicked sense of comic timing’ (the Age). With a voice as smooth as honey and a comedic wit that could shred brie, you’ll have a ball enjoying the talents of Tina Del Twist.
Tina Del Twist has featured on ABCTV’s Comedy Up Late, has performed sell-out seasons with Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Darwin Festival and has been invited to perform in Copenhagen, Berlin, Edinburgh, and New York. Tina has also performed with the Melba Spiegeltent playing a lead role in La Soiree. And then some.
'Fabulousness' - Age
'Super fabulous' - Herald Sun
'I must apologise for my overuse of the word "fabulous"' - Inpress
Van Badham
Van Badham is a Melbourne-based writer, theatremaker, critic, activist, occasional broadcaster and one of Australia’s most controversial public intellectuals. She is currently employed as a political columnist and culture critic for Guardian Australia, while as a theatremaker she’s had more than 100 international productions of her work.
In 2014, her theatre projects include Notoriously Yours - a live-action spy movie about the surveillance - at the Adelaide Fringe, The Trollhunter - a Melbourne Comedy Festival show with Catherine Deveny, and Big Baby: Boss of the World - a collaboration with Terrapin, the national puppet company.
In 2014, she’s won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for her play Muff, the Adelaide Critics' Circle Award for Notoriously Yours and shared the Green Room award for Best Production with her adaptation of The Bloody Chamber.
Internationally, her works for stage and musical theatre have appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, Adelaide Festival, New York Summer Play Festival, in Australia for Malthouse Theatre and Griffin Theatre, in London at the Royal Court Theatre, the Bush (for Paines Plough), the Finborough and Theatre503, and toured extensively in the UK, across her native Australia and to the US, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
The BBC World Service, Radio 4 and Radio 3 have produced her radio dramas. Her first novel, Burnt Snow, released in Australia in 2010, is the first in a three-book series for Pan Macmillan. She trained in writing for television on attachment to BBC serial Holby City and her award-winning short film, Octopus, screened in the Dungog, Tropfest Australia, Munich International, Berlin International and LA Shorts festivals.