Elly Varrenti is an Australian columnist, freelance writer, teacher, actress and broadcaster. As an actress and singer she has performed with the Melbourne Theatre Company,

Playbox Theatre The Playbox Theatre was a theatre located at 53-55 Exhibition Street in Melbourne, Australia, from 1927 to 1984. It became the home of the Playbox Theatre Company, previously Hoopla! and later Malthouse Theatre. History The theatre seating ...

, La Mama, Theatreworks and

ABC Radio National Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2. History 1937: Predecessors an ...

. Ms Varrenti has also appeared in several television serials. As a radio broadcaster she has worked for community radio

3RRR 3RRR (pronounced "Three Triple R", or simply "Triple R") is an Australian community radio station, based in Melbourne. 3RRR first commenced broadcasting in 1976 from the studios of 3ST, the student radio station of the Royal Melbourne Institut ...

, ABC Melbourne and ABC Radio National. In 2008 Penguin Books published her memoir ''This Is Not My Beautiful Life'' and a short story in the anthology ''How We Met''. Affirm Press published Ms Varrenti's story, ''Seriously funny'', in the anthology of women’s writing, ''She’s Having a Laugh'' in 2015. As a freelance writer and columnist she has contributed to ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'', ''

The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...

'', '' The Australian Women’s Weekly'', '' Mamamia'', ''Hoopla'', ''

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'', '' The Good Weekend'', '' The Australian Education Union'', '' The Big Issue'' and ''Daily Review''. She was a theatre critic for ''The Melbourne Times'' from 2007 to 2009, for ''The Age'' from 2011 to 2012, and a book critic for ''The Australian'' and ''The Age'' in 2016 and 2017. She taught Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2014 and at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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