Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is a Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.

Plays

Angry Young Penguins, 1987 (Church Theatre, Melbourne) (see also: Ern Malley) Atlanta, 1990 (Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne) Love Child, 1993 (Playbox Theatre Company) Ridge's Lovers, 1993 (La Mama, Melbourne) Flame, 1994 (Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney) Honour, 1995 (Playbox Theatre Company) Redemption, 1997 (Playbox Theatre Company) Nightfall, 1999 (Playbox Theatre Company) Rapture, 2002 (Playbox Theatre Company) Bombshells, 2001 (Melbourne Theatre Company, written for Caroline O'Connor) The Female of the Species, 2006 (Melbourne Theatre Company) Ninety, 2008 (Melbourne Theatre Company) Scenes from a Marriage, 2008 (based on the 1973 Bergman film) (Belgrade Theatre Coventry) Rockabye, 2009 (Melbourne Theatre Company) Songs for Nobodies, 2010 (Melbourne Theatre Company, written for Bernadette Robinson) The Gift, 2011 (Melbourne Theatre Company)[31] Day One, a Hotel, Evening, 2011 (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne) True Minds, 2013 (Melbourne Theatre Company) Fury, 2013 (Sydney Theatre Company) Hedda Gabler, 2013 (adaptation of Ibsen play, [State Theatre Company of South Australia][33] Switzerland, 2014 (Sydney Theatre Company) Pennsylvania Avenue, 2014 (Melbourne Theatre Company, written for Bernadette Robinson) American Song, 2016 (Milwaukee Rep) Three Little Words, 2017 (Melbourne Theatre Company) Fury (Revised), 2018] L'Appartement, 2019 (Queensland Theatre) Berlin, 2021 (Melbourne Theatre Company)