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BEN ELLIS |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates ANZ representative Cameron Creswell Agency |
Ben's plays include Unrestless (Old Vic Coming Up Festival); The Captive (Finborough); The Final Shot (Theatre 503); and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Bush/Latitude). He is well known in Australia for works including Falling Petals and These People. Ben has won the Patrick White Playwrights Award, Wal Cherry Play of the Year and was shortlisted in 2008 for the Bruntwood Prize.
Plays by Ben Ellis
360 Positions In A One Night Stand | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51287 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Nick Marchand, Ben Ellis, Victoria Gleeson, Tommy Murphy And Emma Vuletic | |||||
Synopsis: | One election, two actors, five writers, ten characters and 360 positions. A play about love and sexual politics | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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50 Ways To Leave Your Lover | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | commissioned by Latitude Festival, Suffolk | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88070 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | By Lucy Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Green, Lucy Kirkwood, Ben Schiffer | |||||
Synopsis: | An evening of heart break and misery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Between Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Production Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72608 | |||
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Notes: | The Production Company presents The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, a program of new works by Australian playwrights. The following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between the two countries." | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brilliant Allies | ||
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Company: | Theatre In Decay | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124020 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Originally performed as part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eighty Eight | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92466 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | entrant for the Royal Exchange Theatre's Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Falling Petals | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street, Basement, New York, NY 10014 >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Production Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197067 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10918 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | This is a gritty unattractive, moving and sickening piece of theatre. extroadinarily well written and quite distrubing. (Author Info) | |||||
| In the town of Hollow a strange ilness is killing off the small children, HSC students Tania, Sally and Phil think they will remain unnaffected and focus their energies on getting the highest results possible to get out of their small town and childhoods. As the town is quarinteened and more and more people start to fall ill, the dynamics change. Tania and Phil now focus even more on getting out even as their friends start to die around them. They have plans to trick the guards, get to the next town. Sally meanwhile is falling sick. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Final Shot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | "How can you take a man's death and turn it into television?" A loving family preparing for the end. A filmmaker struggling to stay. A nation hungry for its next TV dinner. How far should you go to put something on screen? What should you film? What shouldn't you? A final breath. A dying wish. A living need. Ben Ellis's searing new play forces us to confront life's final taboo. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hacked | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 27 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132169 | |||
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Genre: | collaborative piece | |||||
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Notes: | Playwrights: Ben Ellis, Marcelo Dos Santos, Dominic Cavendish, Dawn King, Anna Jordan, Matt Hartley. Curated by Derek Bond and Lisa Cagnacci | |||||
Synopsis: | All across London, phones are being hacked. Only now it's playwrights stealing the stories of brave volunteers. Will they score a scoop, or will they have to use a little artistic licence? And which will make the better story: the facts or the fiction? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Modern Living @ Its Fines | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Operating Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91234 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of writer's block | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Outpatients | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51292 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Troy is a diabetic who needs the signature of his soon-to-be retired doctor in order to keep his driving licence. Beetle and Snail are middle-managers trying to reform St Peter's Hospital, where a nurse called Rebecca has developed multiple personalities to cover for all of the cutbacks. With the funding cuts so severe that even the stairs have stopped working, will Troy ever see his clean bill of health autographed? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poet No 7 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50497 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the world's infatuation with America - a kind of fugue for four voices | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Post Felicity | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196746 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10919 | |||
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Genre: | Satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| bitingly funny portrait of a self-obsessed couple, a fiendish employer, and their bizarre reactions to a tragic event. It is a savage satire of three baby-boomers fighting in a mire of their own waking. Fiercely theatrical, this deeply black comedy has been awarded both the inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize and The Patrick White Playwright's Award | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Speed Date | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ | 01 09 2011 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422308 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132455 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
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Notes: | part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood. | |||||
| No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond. | |||||
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These People | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, Aug 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197440 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51293 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| The story of what a "typical" Australian father, mother, daughter and son become when confronted with the stories of asylum-seekers: nightmares, dreams and, sometimes, penguins. Transforming the play's documentary material (which includes court and inquiry transcripts, statements by immigration ministers, interviews with detention centre workers and asylum-seekers themselves) - the play highlights the dramatic Australian response to the refugee story of recent times, with terrifying consequences for the lives of father, mother, daughter and son in their Sydney home. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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World At One | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73935 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | Griff Phillips writes about comebacks, secrets and lies, Fleur Smith on how far celeb-wannabies will go and Ben Ellis looks at who holds the puppet strings. | |||||
Synopsis: | In a time when Jordan's love life is the only war-zone people want to read about, gossip mags swamp the newsagent shelves and PR gurus make the millions, we stage three short plays on the theme 'SELLEBRITY'. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zombie State | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114354 | |||
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