Heather McKeon

Heather Forbes-McKeon is a playwright, screenwriter, poet and short film director and producer and radio producer. Heather completed a Masters in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in 2014.  Heather wrote and produced ‘The Shell’, a short film in 2018. She also produced a series of ten radio plays for RPP FM, “Time Capsules’ over 2017 – 2018 which have been archived by the National Film and Sound Archive. Melbourne Writer’s Theatre have produced some of her works including: ‘Hope’ in 2017, ‘‘Desperate & Dirty at Twilight’ in 2019 and ‘This Sheila’s Lockdown’ & ‘Iso in Fountain Lakes’ in 2020. Heather is the founder of Poets Corner in 2017; a Mornington Peninsula based group of performance-bards which produced two anthologies of poetry mostly by Mornington Peninsula poets. She is currently working on a web series of documentaries. Her film ‘Dreamweavers – Jacquie Beddows won the My Local Hero category of the 2022 Peninsula Film Festival. The film was also short listed by the Focus on Ability Short Film Festival 2022.  She would like to write a second full feature film screenplay.