Author of fifteen plays including Jenny and the Tennis Nut (AWGIE Award 1999) No Strings Attached (Playlab Press 1994, AWGIE nomination), Trading Hours (AWGIE nomination), Outside In (VUP 1984), Hilary has written for both stage and screen. Her plays have been performed throughout Australia and internationally in the United Kingdom, United States of America and New Zealand.
Overflow: Playworks/Playlab Short Works Brisbane Writers' Festival 2006
HB: I wanted to write a play with a homestead as the central character. Its characteristics are defined by the people who inhabit the house and the plot becomes the social migrations, political vagaries and the cycle of economic prosperity and decline of each successive generation. The characters in Overflow are fictional but the 100-year old homestead, on which the play is based, is situated in the buffer zone of the proposed Wyaralong Dam, SE Queensland