Discovering Millicent Armstrong with Dianna Nixon

Overview

Join the Friends of the National Library and Dianna Nixon of Music Theatre Projects Ltd as she shares her nine year journey uncovering the life and work of the playwright, Millicent Armstrong.

You can attend this event in person or watch the online livestream. The livestream link will be sent a week before the event and again one day prior to the event.

Playwright Millicent Armstrong (1888-1973) was a World War I veteran and soldier-settler farmer. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for bravery on the Western Front. Armstrong graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honours in English. She headed to London in 1914 intending to publish her first novel, but almost immediately became involved in war-work. After the war, she returned to a property between Gunning and Goulburn in New South Wales, where she farmed and wrote award-winning plays.

Dianna lives north of Canberra in charming Gunning, a village of 800 people in a rich farming and grazing area. As a pianist, singer, actor, director and producer, she runs two businesses - the not-for-profit creative production company, Music Theatre Projects and her piano and voice practice, Wild Voices Music Theatre. She has been active in this region as a professional performing artist, arts educator and passionate arts advocate for 20 years.