Patricia Cornelius (born 1952)[1] is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.
Cornelius has written many plays, including Slut (2008, Platform Youth Theatre), The Call (2009, Griffin Theatre Company), Good, Do Not Go Gentle… (2010, fortyfivedownstairs), Boy Overboard (2004, Australian Theatre for Young People), Love (2005, Malthouse Theatre), Lilly and May and Hog's Hairs and Leeches and co-authored The Audition (2019, 2024, Outer Urban Projects).
[3] Cornelius also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2009 film Blessed, based on Who's Afraid of the Working Class, with co-writers Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Christos Tsiolkas.
[6] Her 2010 play Do Not Go Gentle... received the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Drama in 2011[7] and won the 2011 Victorian Premier's Louis Esson Prize for Drama.
[8] Cornelius won the 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Drama.