Career
Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon"s family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. She has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. She also edits the online writing magazine Masthead and writes theatre criticism.
Croggon has also written libretti for Michael Smetanin"s operas Gauguin: A Synthetic and The Burrow, which premiered respectively at the 2000 Melbourne Festival and Perth Festival, produced by ChamberMade.
In 2014, Iain Grandage"s opera The Riders, to Croggon"s libretto based on Tim Winton"s novel The Riders, had its world premiere in Melbourne. Other poems by her have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson and Andrée Greenwell.
Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company (Adelaide) and American Broadcasting Company Radio. 2009 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing for her blog Theatre Notes.
