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Michelle LawScreenwriter | Playwright | Author

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Michelle Law is a highly acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, author and performer whose most recent play MISS PEONY, had a sold-out season at Belvoir Theatre Company. Originally launching her career with her play SINGLE ASIAN FEMALE, the piece premiered at QTC to great critical acclaim and likewise sold out at Belvoir. It was subsequently picked up by various theatre companies across Australia and New Zealand, including Auckland Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Building on her success with SINGLE ASIAN FEMALE, STC commissioned and staged Michelle’s play TOP COAT.

For television, Michelle wrote on the drama series SAFE HOME for SBS and Kindling Pictures. Her other credits include GET KRACK!N (ABC), THE BUREAU OF MAGICAL THINGS (Network 10) and ROSEHAVEN (ABC). Michelle also co-created, co-wrote and starred in the first web series commissioned by SBS On Demand, titled HOMECOMING QUEENS, which took home Best Web Series at the AWG awards, Best Screenplay at Melbourne Web Fest, and Best Performance in a Comedy series at the Equity Ensemble Awards. It was also nominated for Best Online Video or Series at the AACTA Awards.

In addition to presenting a TEDx talk and working as an advocate for social causes, Michelle is a prolific speaker about issues concerning intersectional feminism, cultural identity and race. To this end, she wrote the short documentary SUICIDE AND ME (ABC2) which aimed to create more conversations about suicide prevention in Australia.

Beyond performance writing, Michelle is a successfully published author. Her latest book, Asian Girls Are Going Places, was published through Hardie Grant in 2022. Previously, in 2016, she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Further, she has written for many magazines, journals, and broadsheet newspapers including frankie magazine, The Griffith Review, and The Saturday Paper. Her stories and essays have been anthologised in books such as After Australia, Best Australian Comedy Writing, Destroying the Joint, Women of Letters, Growing up Asian in Australia, and more. In 2014, she co-wrote a comedy book called SH*T ASIAN MOTHERS SAY with her brother Benjamin Law.

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Your Asian Mother Says: “You look just like Mummy when she was your age.”

Your Asian Mother Means: “You will secure love and happiness thanks to my genes so essentially you owe me everything.”

Benjamin Law and Michelle Law, the long-suffering children of an Asian Mother, bring you the hilarious Sh*t Asian Mothers Say, featuring the wisdom of Asian Mothers the world over, from “Eat every grain of rice, otherwise that’s how many pimples your future spouse will have” to “She’s just jealous – and racist”. The book also includes quizzes (“Have You Failed Your Asian Mother?”), an interpretation guide to “What your Asian Mother is really saying”, Ten Asian Mother Commandments (Thou shalt not sleepover) and an Asian Mothers’ Guide to Beauty (bad perms, colour, eyelids). With illustrations by Oslo Davis that bring the disapproving Asian Mother to life, this is the perfect gift for the Asian Mother in your life – or perhaps her children.

Published by Nero, available for purchase through Publisher

The Golden Phoenix, a restaurant on the Sunshine Coast. The last customers have left for the night, and Pearl can unwind. She’s the quintessential matriarch – balancing family, business, and her love of karaoke. Enter her daughters: Zoe, in the throes of online dating, making big life decisions. And Mei, a teenager, grappling with her identity in modern Australia. Of course they see the world differently to their mother. Pearl is the classic (hilarious) onslaught of embarrassing observations, constantly questioning her Westernised children. Tonight she reveals a secret that threatens to tear their family apart.

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The second in the Girls Guide to the World series, Asian Girls are Going Places is a gift book with a difference: it features practical advice (and more) from author Michelle Law and her interviewees that specifically targets the joys, fears and obligations unique to Asian women travelling the world.

Separated into chapters that deal with solo travel, family travel, the best places to celebrate Lunar New Year, where to find good Asian food around the globe, romance or relationships, safety and privilege, the sage and entertaining advice is all told through Michelle’s signature offbeat, comedic style, and accompanied by eye-popping illustrations and design. It’s a book that’s at once cool and collected, yet not afraid to take on the weird, funny and, at times, gross aspects of travel. But you don’t need to have any concrete travel plans to get a lot out of this book.

Each chapter includes anecdotes from Michelle, interviews with other experienced Asian female travellers, handy lists, stunning illustrations by Hong Kong artist Joey Leung Kay-yin, and comes with a page of beautiful stickers, making it either an impressive gift to be treasured at home or a luxurious ‘treat yourself’ item that can be read on the go. Asian Girls are Going Places is a handy, laugh-out-loud and deeply relatable travel companion for Asian women that will be at the top of their packing list.

Published by Hardie Grant. Buy at Publisher

Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. She doesn’t care that times have changed and that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. She sees that Lily’s caught between worlds, and wants her to enter the Chinese community beauty pageant, the highly competitive Miss Peony. She won’t take no for an answer.

And to makes matters worse, she’s a ghost.

 

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