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Camille was born in 1977 in Sydney's Sutherland Shire, the daughter of an artist and a motorcycling champion. She progressed quickly from her first story at age 5 to her first novel at age 12 to her second at 16. She was a student (and later a teacher) at Sydney's Roundabout Theatre, where she wrote, directed, and appeared in numerous plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Patrick White's The Ham Funeral and Routine Dreams by Sean Monro. She gained a diploma of Advanced Acting in 1997. In 1995 her play Am I Your Dream? won the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwright of the Year Award, where it was directed by Wayne Harrison. It has since enjoyed numerous national and international productions, including the 1996 Adelaide Fringe Festival and a tour of London with Two Weeks With The Queen in 2000.In 1997 Camille won third place in the same awards with Don’t Call Me Sonny Boy. She later workshopped this script at Interplay, the International Festival of Young Playwrights at Townsville, Australia. She also attended Interplay 1999, where the internet anthology play Something Blue, to which she contributed, was directed by playwright and artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company, Michael Gow. She wrote and directed her first full length play She Called Me Honey Bunny in 1997, where it received rave reviews at Sydney's Cafe Basilica.
Several of her radio dramas have been heard on ABC’s Radio National and Triple J radio stations, including Am I Your Dream? and Hebephrenia. She has given many talks and participated in numerous interviews and panel discussions on topics ranging from literature, womens' modernist art, and film theory, most recently addressing the 2002 Biennale of Sydney on the topic of massively multiplayer games. In 1998 she published a book of short stories, Crush, assisted by the Sydney University Cultural Arts Grants Board. She graduated from Sydney University in 1999 (majoring in English and Art History and Theory). She spent several years working for computer games company MicroForte on their Massively Multiplayer Online Game project, BigWorld: Citizen Zero and gained media attention for being Australia's only female game designer. She will soon be presenting a speech at Plaything, Sydney's first symposium on computer game theory.
After a long standing interest in heritage architecture issues and an association with the Art Deco Society of NSW she led a campaign to save the Maritime Services Board Building (home of the Museum of Contemporary Art) at Circular Quay from demolition. She lived in New York for most of 2001 before touring Europe in 2002. She now works as a media analyst and, when there's time, on a third novel, The Bondmaid, as well as several film projects and occassional freelance writing. Her work appeared as part of the anthology Letters to J.D. Salinger, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, in 2001.
Her esoteric interests include silent film, Art Deco and 1950s design, Renaissance literature, David Lynch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, antique collecting, hypertext fiction, politics, Argentinian Tango, Katherine Mansfield, and Pre-Raphaelite art, South American cooking, architectural heritage, the perfect caesar salad, and the neverending pursuit of esoteric interests.
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