Timothy Daly (playwright)
Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright, with many national and international productions to his credit.[1][2]
Timothy Daly | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Notable works | Kafka Dances |
His 2008 play Derrida in Love, was written for Jacki Weaver, which she performed in a sold out season at the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.[3] Daly's play Kafka Dances has won a dozen national and international awards since its premiere and is one of the most internationally performed Australian plays. His play Richard III ( or almost) premiered at the 2011 Festival d'Avignon and followed with a Paris season in October–November 2012. Daly's play,The Man in the Attic, was awarded the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for best new play.[4] It has been staged in Paris, at the 2013 Festival d'Avignon. In 2013, Daly was the recipient of a Paris Studio Residency Award from the Australian Council for the Arts.
Theatre
- The Don's Last Innings (Sydney Theatre Company; Launceston Theatre Company; Riverina Theatre Company; State Theatre Company of South Australia)
- Derrida in Love (Ensemble Theatre)
- Kafka Dances (Griffin Theatre Company; Sydney Theatre Company; La Boite Theatre Company; Cherry Tree Theatre; Market Theatre; Zenith Theatre; High-Doh Theatre; Axis Theater; State Theatre Company of South Australia; Cyrano's Theater Company; Star Théâtre; Theatre des Opprimés; Théâtre de Chevilly-Larue; Comédie De l'Est; Saint-Cyr-l'École; Saint-Maur-des-Fossés; Festival de Cornouaille; Festival d'Avignon and toured to Strasbourg; Valenciennes; Nîmes and Draveil)
- The Man in the Attic (Star Théâtre; Festival d'Avignon; Théatre l'Avant Seine; Théatre Bois de l'Épée)
- Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia (National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduation production commission)
- The Quiz King (New Theatre)
- The Critic Assassinated (National Institute of Dramatic Art; Mummers Theatre)
- The Moonwalkers (Griffin Theatre Company; Street Theatre Company)
- Complicity (Marian Street Theatre)
- The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner (Griffin Theatre Company; Bakehouse Theatre)
- Livingstone (Marian Street Theatre; Ice House Theater; Effie Crump Theatre; Riverina Theatre Company; Brisbane Arts Theatre; Pymble Players and toured regionally to Kalgoorlie; Kunnemarra)
Television, translations and adaptations
- Song For Two in the Night (Theodor Weißenborn)
- The Double Bass (Patrick Susskind) Ensemble Theatre
- Liebelei (Flirtations) (Arthur Schnitzler) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Interior (Maurice Maeterlinck) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Hours of the Dying (Hans Johst) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Neighbours (various episodes, Grundy Corporation)
- A Lapse in Behaviour Australian Broadcasting Corporation; British Broadcasting Corporation; South African Broadcasting Corporation; New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Opera librettos
- How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints (based on the novel by Kathy Lette; music by Alan John; produced by Victorian Opera)
Awards and prizes
- The Man in the Attic – Winner of the Patrick White Award for Best New Play
- Kafka Dances – Winner of a Sydney Theatre Critics' award for Best New Australian Play; Finalist for both the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award; Winner of 5 South African Vita (Now known as the Naledi Theatre Awards)
- Outlanders – Winner of Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award
- The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner – Winner of Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play; finalist in the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for drama
- Three Australian Council for the Arts Literary Awards[5]
Residencies and fellowships
- Keesing Studio Residency Award (Paris) from the Australian Council for the Arts, 2013.[6]
- Friends of the National Library Creative Arts Fellowship from the National Library of Australia, 2017,[7] to progress a script for psychological thriller, Perfume.
References
- "Timothy Daly – list of works". AusStage.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-12. Retrieved 2014-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "AusStage".
- "Sydney Theatre Company - Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship". Sydney Theatre Company.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2014-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Australia Council Annual Report 2012-13 (PDF). Australia Council for the Arts. 2013. p. 11. ISSN 0725-7643.
- "Creative Arts Fellows". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2017.