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Careful before you get sucked into reading
this guff. This is a long and rambling tale of my writing history up until
the nows.
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Bio |
I am dwelling in Canberra in the Australie born in 1983. In 2001, after graduating from Year 12, I formed Bohemian Productions with three compadres (Jackal Lloyd, Mick Bailey and Nicky J) and we produced a double bill of two one-act plays: Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter and Jack and my Quiet Time. Quiet Time is the story of five strangers who wake up in a room with no memory of how they got there. One by one they are taken out and killed, and their bodies returned to the room. Later in 2001, I wrote and directed my first full-length play; The Mischief Sense, about a swarm of supernaturally enhanced thieves. The review is fantastic: Script Fails in Tilt at Irony. In 2002, Bohemian produced Pinter’s One for the Road (torture in a police state) alongside Stuart Robert’s Bonesyard (19th century graverobbing), Steven Mallatrat’s The Woman in Black (gothic horror) and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (grotesque pop classic!). Bohemian’s sister company Opiate Productions produced a one-act play by me, Nick McCorriston and Muttley entitled Chosei: Eternal Life. In 2003 I wrote and directed w3 w3lcome the future, a road trip play about a pilgrimage to see Canberra’s guru. I also performed as “I” in BKu’s Withnail and I, the Schmurz in Bohemian’s production of Boris Vian’s The Empire Builders, and the Man from Zod in Hadley’s monologue The Man From Zod. Encountering Hadley was one of the single biggest events in my history as a writer. Hadley is a more different Canberra playwright who comes from the world of infomercials, a sexual obsession with Chuck Norris and drinking Gandhi’s piss. It have been fruitful. In 2004, Bohemian produced and Nicky J directed my play Vampire Play, which was dramaturged by Filipino/Australian playwright Paschal Berry. Vampire Play tells the story of vampire gang warfare in a fictional subway under Canberra and it was Bohemian’s biggest commercial success. In 2005, I co-wrote and performed in Raoul Craemer’s Vidooshaka: the Indian Clown at the Multicultural Fringe Festival. My one-act play Hate Restaurants was directed by Estelle Muspratt for Canberra Youth Theatre’s Whining and Dying, I contributed two pieces to BKu’s duologue festival: Weasel and Brown on the beach (which you may download from the Scripts page) and Playable Demo, written with Jack Lloyd, and I performed in Buzzing Productions’ contact improvisation production in November. Most epically, I was one of the producers of NUTS/Bohemian’s One Night Only: Dallas Rockwell’s Confessional Tour. One Night Only was three short plays set at a pop concert: Max Barker’s and my improvisational piece Savage Dancefloor (a witchdoctor unleashes his evil upon the mosh-pit), Hadley’s Flush and Stu Roberts’ Loose... Ships. In 2006, I was hired to co-write Canberra Youth Theatre’s large-scale performance event Arcane Secrets (with Hadley and Tess Elvin), and funded by the ACT government to write and workshop Car Play with mentor Paschal Berry and director barb barnett. Car Play is the story of teenager Mack Finch’s driving test through an apocalyptic wasteland populated by creatures made of steam. Car Play was shortlisted for the Max Afford Playwrights’ Competition and accepted into the Interplay Online Playwrights’ Festival. In August/September 2006 I went to the Philippines to do a seven week Writer’s Residency with Tanghalang Pilipino at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. As part of this residency I co-wrote Sagrado sa Loob (Sacred Inside) with Ogie Braga, which was directed by Tess Jamias, and wrote To heat you up and cool you down, which was directed by Issa Lopez. At present I am working with Bohemian afficionados Jack Lloyd, Mick Bailey and the ever-present Muttley on a one-act play entitle A Prisoner's Dilemma. It's about game theory.
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