Until recently Julian Meyrick was Associate Director and Literary Advisor at Melbourne Theatre Company. He is currently Deputy Chair of PlayWriting Australia and an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University as well as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at La Trobe University.

He is involved in Australian drama at all levels and as a director and dramaturge has developed countless individual Australian plays. He was responsible for expanding the Affiliate Writers Scheme at MTC and for initiating the Hard Lines new play program.

As a theatre historian he has published a history of Nimrod Theatre, See How It Runs (2003),a history of MTC, The Drama Continues, a Currency House Platform Paper, Trapped By the Past, and academic articles on post-War Australian theatre, the theory-practice nexus, and contemporary dramaturgy.

In 2009, he will be a member of the federal government Creative Advisory Committee. His current research, a series of performing arts case studies in the post-Whitlam era, focuses on the relationship between cultural policy and creative practice.