
Tracy Crisp
ABOUT
Tracy Crisp
Tracy Crisp is writer, performer and funeral celebrant from Adelaide/Tarntangya who has published novels, essays and short stories, and performed and produced six solo monologues. In 2025, she performed all six of her 'memoir monologues' in one big sell-out season at the Adelaide Fringe, winning several awards including a best theatre award, Spirit of the Fringe, and the prestigious Frank Ford Award. Her book, Pearls: Memoir Strands, is adapted from the scripts of her solo shows.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.







