Jamie Hornsby is a multi-award-winning playwright, actor, composer and photographer. He is the winner of two AWGIE Awards, including the prestigious David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre. He was the recipient of the Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Award at the 2022 Ruby Awards, South Australia’s premier arts and culture ceremony. He has been described in Stage Whispers as “a major voice in Australian playwriting” and The Barefoot Review as “one of the most promising young playwrights in the country today.”

His first play, because there was fire, was the inaugural commission from Jopuka Productions and won Best New Work at the Newcastle Fringe Awards before embarking on an interstate tour. Jamie won the 2018 Flinders University/State Theatre Company South Australia Young Playwrights Award for his play, ASCEND, and he was the runner up for the Australian Theatre Festival’s New Play Award for his play, Python, which recently scored a commendation in the Australian Writers’ Guild’s Shane & Cathryn Brennan Award, as well as finalist in the Stoddart Playwrights Award.

He was selected as the Australian participant in the Sala Beckett’s International Emerging Playwrights Workshop, where his play, All of It was performed in Catalan to a local audience in Barcelona. Jamie has been commissioned twice more by Jopuka Productions, for Transcendence and The Boys on The Bus, which was remounted at the Australian Theatre For Young People’s Rebel Theatre in Sydney. He has written for State Theatre Company South Australia and ActNow Theatre in their Decameron 2.0 project, and his writing appears on Season 2 of New Wave, an audio-theatre podcast. Jamie was commissioned by South Australian Youth Arts to write We’ve Got All The Time in the World* (Terms and Conditions Apply) in collaboration with their On the Fringe ensemble.

Jamie is a graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts as an actor. As well as appearing in various Madness of Two shows, Jamie has toured metropolitan and regional South Australia with Waxing Lyrical Productions’ Romeo and Juliet and toured to Disneyland, California with Adelaide Youth Theatre’s Bugsy Malone. He is a regular performer for Splash Theatre Company and the Ticklish Allsorts, and played the title role in Blinky Bill is On The Loose, a new Australian musical produced by KoBugs Theatre Company. Jamie appears in season 1 of Firebite by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher.