Readings St Kilda welcomes Hannie Rayson to disucss her new memoir, Hello, Beauitful! Scenes from a Life. 

Hannie Rayson has spent a lifetime giving voice to others in the many roles she has written for stage and television. In Hello, Beautiful! she shines the spotlight on herself. Hear Hannie share stories from her life behind the scenes with the great warmth and humour that has made her one of our best-known playwrights.

Hannie Rayson is a playwright and screenwriter. Her works—including Hotel Sorrento, Inheritance and Life After George—have been performed around Australia and internationally. She has been awarded two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her play Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.