Timothy Daly (playwright)

Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright, with many national and international productions to his credit.[1][2]

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

1. "Timothy Daly – list of works". AusStage.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-12. Retrieved 2014-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "AusStage".
4. "Sydney Theatre Company - Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship". Sydney Theatre Company.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2014-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Australia Council Annual Report 2012-13 (PDF). Australia Council for the Arts. 2013. p. 11. ISSN 0725-7643.
7. "Creative Arts Fellows". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2017.

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