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Emilie Collyer

EMILIE COLLYER

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Emilie Collyer is a writer, performer and teacher, with a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Her writing for theatre includes: 'Democracy Project' (2008 Old Parliament House), 'Shack' (2007 Punctum Inc), 'Sharing the Same Roof' (2006 Kensington Neighbourhood House), 'Boxed' (2005 Short and Sweet Top 30, Melbourne), 'The Morris Shed Collection' (2005 Castlemaine Festival), 'Was he an angel?' (2004 Scattergun Project: St Martins Theatre, Melbourne), 'The Last Potato Man' (2003-4 Commission: Jigsaw Theatre, Canberra), 'The Gas Connection' (2004 Shepparton Arts Festival, 2003 Gasworks, Melbourne & Bendigo), 'Damascus' (2003 National Playwrights' Conference), 'Ripe' (2002, Kaidan short Works, Melbourne & 2001, Playworks commission, Melbourne Writers' Festival), 'Hover' (2005, Commission: ABC Radio National, 2002, Playbox Raw reading, 2001 MTC reading, Melbourne), 'Golden Square' (2001, Bendigo), 'Promise' (2001, Winner George Fairfax Award, Castlemaine), 'Breakfast' (2000, Brickworks, Melbourne), 'Radio City' (1998, contributing writer, St Martins Theatre, Melbourne), 'Argonauta' (1998, Winner Young Playwrights' Competition, St Martins Theatre) and 'Stuck up a Tree in the Forest of Love' (1996, Star and Garter Hotel, Melbourne). Emilie has received support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Varuna Writers' Centre, the Ian Potter Foundation, the ANPC, Playworks, Playbox (now The Malthouse) and MTC. She has also won awards and published fiction, non-fiction, reviews and poetry. In 2007 Emilie published a primary school book titled 'Arts and Culture' with Binara Publishing. She has extensive experience as an improviser and performer. She is a teaching artist with the Victorian Arts Centre and was a founding member of the physical comedy duo Style Bandits. She is also a founding member and board member of the contemporary arts company Punctum Inc, based in Castlemaine. In 2007 Emilie was an Artist in Residence at Kensington Primary School (Melbourne) with Arts Victoria's Artists in Schools program. She also teaches creative writing at Kensington Neighbourhood House, a program she devised and developed and has been running since 2004. Emilie works regularly as a copywriter for a range of media and clients.

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         Argonauta         Dream Home         Dust On the Hill         Eric         Gas Connection, The         Good Girl, The         Hello My Astonished Friend         Hover         Kaidan Short Works Project         Making the Cut         Maybe We Are Never Together         Promise

Argonauta

Synopsis:
Lily is sitting on a beach, looking for a shell. Her world is small, isolated and safe; that's how she likes it. She doesn't 'do' other people, and she's not about to start, or so she thinks. Argonauta is about what happens when walls begin to crack. Through Lily's eyes we confront the fears and hopes of building a new world. It may be less than perfect, but then most real things are. While the themes of Argonauta are especially pertinent to young people, its insight, poignancy and humour will resonate with all.

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Genre:
60 mins comedy drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dream Home

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Dust On the Hill

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1st Produced:
The Madwoman Monologues    2011

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Baggage Productions

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Monologue play

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Eric

Synopsis:
One man sketch comedy performed by Scott Gooding

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Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008. Written by Scott Brennan, Adam Cass, Emilie Collyer, Anna Den Hartog, Scott Gooding, Dominic Hong Duc Golding, Lally Katz, Michelle Lee, Ben McKenzie, Robert Reid, Glyn Roberts, Robert Rouke and Nic Velissaris

1st Produced:
The Dog Theatre, Footscray, Vic    08 Oct 2008

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The Dog Theatre

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89334

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Gas Connection, The

Synopsis:
This production celebrates the creativity of workers who, in 1937, at the Albert Park Gasworks, staged a 16-day strike. . ..the Gas Connection also recreates the celebratory performance of a play called the Last Supper, possibly something like what was performed by workers in 1973 when the Bendigo Gasworks closed.

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written by Jude Anderson and Emilie Collyer

1st Produced:
Bendigo Gasworks, Bendigo, Vic    11 Apr 2003

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Melbourne Workers Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23171

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Good Girl, The

Good Girl, The
She has one job: to care for an elite robot prostitute. He is the maintenance man who repairs it. Life for both of them has been simple and regulated. Until now. The Good Girl is a black comedy set in the future. Its about sex and ambition and getting ahead. Whatever it takes.

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1st Produced:
Melbourne Fringe Festival    2013

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Playlab   978 1 921390 89 0

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Genre:
Black Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hello My Astonished Friend

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1st Produced:
The Madwoman Monologues    2011

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Baggage Productions

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Hover

Synopsis:
Trina and Carl meet at a shipwreck excavation. Trina is searching for a lost ship, Carl is caring for his terminally ill girlfriend. In a relationship that becomes part seduction, part battle, they trigger personal time bombs in each other of guilt, longing and betrayal. Over the course of three nights, they push each other to potent moments of action and irreversible change.

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Genre:
Naturalistic drama with poetic and metaphoric elem 90 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kaidan Short Works Project

Synopsis:
Kaidan is Japanese for haunted tales, and this collection of short works is linked by the genre of the ghost story.

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Kaidan Short Works Project : Jamison / Ghost Gum / The Dog and the People / Constantly at the Airport / One Shallow Breath / Ripe. Written by Emilie Collyer, Ben Ellis, Geire Kami, Lally Katz, Nick parr and robert reid

1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    04 Dec 2002

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Genre:
short experimental plays

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21524

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Making the Cut

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1st Produced:
Friends Deciding To Do Stuff, Punctum, Victoria    2012

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Monologue play

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Maybe We Are Never Together

Synopsis:
Life, death, love

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Written by Emilie Collyer and Kate Hunter

1st Produced:
Big West Festival    16 Nov 2011

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Genre:
Drama

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Promise

Synopsis:
In a small country town, the river is filling with salt. A woman is missing, the air is laden with heat and silent promises. A couple arrives from the city. They become drawn into a slow dance of fantasy and denial. Promise is a play about the lure of illusion, the appeal of memory and the murky waters of waking up and moving on. Join six characters as they drift below the surface of love to explore what lies beneath. Sometimes, it takes more courage to break the seal of a promise than to slowly drown under its weight.

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Genre:
2 act 70 mins Play/Drama

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