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Australian playwright and screenwriter (born 1953)
Stephen Sewell |
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Born | (1953-03-13) 13 March 1953 (age 69)
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Nationality | Australian |
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Occupation | Playwright, novelist, screenwriter |
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Biography
Born in Liverpool, New South Wales, Sewell's first theatre experience was in the 1970s in the fringe theatre while he was studying Science at the University of Sydney,[1] where his first play was staged in 1975.
In an interview in 2006 Sewell describes himself as an "angry writer" and a workaholic.[2] Fascinated by the social world, his work ranges across many fields of study, from economics and politics to philosophy and psychology, and while he is considered a writer obsessed with dark themes, he is not himself a pessimist, saying, "No artist, no creator, ever sets forth without hope, even if the thing they create appears to be carved out of pitch black despair."[3]
On 15 October 2012, Sewell was appointed Head of Writing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.[4]
Awards
Association |
Award |
Year |
Work/s |
Results |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards |
Play Award |
1985 |
The Blind Giant is Dancing |
Won |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards |
Play Award |
1989 |
Hate |
Won |
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay |
Best Screenplay (Adapted) |
1998 |
The Boys |
Won |
Australian National Playwrights' Centre |
(ANPC) Award for 2004 |
2004 |
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Won |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards |
Play Awards |
2004 |
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America |
Won |
AWGIE Awards[1] |
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2004 |
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Honoured |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award |
Louis Esson Prize for Drama |
2004 |
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Honoured
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Works
Plays
- The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea (Currency Press) – first performed at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre Company in 1978; Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, 1983
- Traitors (Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983) – first performed by the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1979
- Anger's Love
- The Blind Giant is Dancing (Currency Press, 1985, c. 1983) – first performed Adelaide 1982
- Welcome the Bright World (Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983)
- Burn Victim – first performed Sydney 1983
- Dreams in an Empty City (Currency Press in association with the State Theatre Company of South Australia, 1986) – first produced Adelaide 1986
- Hate (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre, 1988) – first performed Adelaide 1986
- Miranda – first performed Adelaide 1989
- Sisters (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company Melbourne, 1991) – first performed Melbourne 1991
- King Golgrutha – first performed Adelaide 1991
- The Garden of Granddaughters (Currency Press; Melbourne: Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, 1993) – first performed Melbourne 1993
- Dust (Currency Press, 1997) – first performed Adelaide 1993
- Identity By Helen Demidenko – first performed Adelaide 1996
- The Sick Room (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1999)
- Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America (2003) – One of Australia's most awarded plays,[citation needed] dealing with the War on Terror
- It Just Stopped – premiered at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, and the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney in 2006 and revived at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 2014[6]
- The Secret Death of Salvador Dalí – first performed Edinburgh Fringe 2002
- The Gates of Egypt – performed at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney 2007, Review
- Three Furies: Scenes From the Life of Francis Bacon (2004) – first performed Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival in January 2005
- The United States of Nothing – first performed at the Stables Theatre, Sydney 2006
- Kandahar Gate – first performed at NIDA's Parade Theatre, Sydney 2014
- Chrysalis (co-written) – first performed at Sydney Opera House 2017
- Arbus & West (about a meeting between Diane Arbus and Mae West) – first performed at the Melbourne Theatre Company
Film scripts
Television
- "The Gillies Republic" (1986) – episodes include:
- "The Bjelke-Petersen Republic"
- "The Keating Republic"
- "The Howard Republic"
- "The Hawke Republic"
- "The Singleton Republic"
- "The Carleton Republic"
Books
- Animal Kingdom, a crime story (Victory Books, 2010) a novel based on the film.
- Babylon (Victory Books, 2011)
Notes
External links
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