Richard Frankland
Richard Frankland is a filmmaker, musician, poet and activist. He has been an artist for over forty years. As a Field Investigator for the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody in the late 1980s, he was left with an urge to change attitudes…
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Jack Hibberd
Jack Hibberd is one of the most innovative Australian playwrights of his generation. His career began in 1967 and his prolific output extends vigorously into the new century. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed…
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John Romeril
John Romeril has been a prolific writer whose early plays include the major works I Don’t Know Who To Feel Sorry For, Chicago, Chicago and The Floating World. Other plays are Mrs Thally F, Carboni, The Kelly Dance, Lost Weekend, Black Cargo, Bring …
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Mona Brand
Mona Brand was born in 1915. She has written on a wide variety of topics, usually of social relevance and often new to Australian playwriting. Her major work, Here Under Heaven (1948) tackles the dilemma faced by a Chinese war bride in Australia. It …
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Hannie Rayson
Hannie Rayson has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a …
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Jack Davis
Jack Davis (1917–1999) began writing when he was fourteen years old. The fourth child in a family of eleven, he spent his childhood in the West Australian mill town of Yarloop. He worked for several years as a stockman in the north before returning…
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Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour, born 1927 in Fremantle, Western Australia, is an Australian playwright and author best known for his play The One Day of the Year (1958). When Alan was nine, his father was killed in a wharf accident, after that he was raised by his …
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Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra was born in Melbourne. His plays include Page 8 (with David Page), The Woman With Dog's Eyes, The Marvellous Boy, The Emperor of Sydney, Inner Voices, Visions, Inside The Island, The Precious Woman, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, …
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Barry Dickins
Barry Dickins is an author, artist and playwright based in Melbourne. His writing for the stage spans more than two decades and includes the plays: Royboys, A Dickins’ Christmas, The Death of Minnie, Reservoir by Night and Insouciance…
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David Williamson
David Williamson’s first full-length play, The Coming of Stork, premiered at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in 1970. He went on to pen over thirty plays and become Australia’s most successful playwright. His plays have been produced throughout …
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