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Damon Lockwood

DAMON LOCKWOOD

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Damon is the Literary Manager for Black Swan State Theatre Conpany in Western Australia. Damon's script Horsehead won Best Play at the inaugural Roma Fringe Festival 2012 in Italy and will be staged again by Cattive Compagnie in the New York Fringe 2013. Horsehead was nominated for Best Play at the 2008 Western Australian Equity Awards and for Blue Room Theatre's Members Choice award where it was produced in 2008. Damon's most recent work I (honestly) Love You was nominated for Best Play 2012 in the Western Australian Equity Awards and also for Judge's Choice and Member's Choice in The Blue Room Theatre Awards. Damon has been writing professionally for over ten years and has had his work produced all across the country. He won the national Write Now! 2005 competition (NSW) for Best Script with his one man show Domestic Bliss and his script Pri-mates was selected for the Australian Script Centre Collection #6 publication. Nature as Explained by Theatre, for Longwood Productions, was chosen as the Play Of The Month, October 2007 for the Australian Script Centre. Other scripts include Muttaburrasaurus (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre),Refractions, A Change in the Weather (Deckchair Theatre UmbrElla Program),12:15, Saturday Night Shortlisted For 2006 Short And Sweet Sydney (Damage Theatre) and A Change in the Weather Nominated For 2005 Blue Room Theatre Award For Best Production (Rockwood Productions).

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/400586

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below is a list of Damon Lockwood's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         12:15, Saturday Night         Change In the Weather, A         Domestic Bliss         Dora Green Decides to Bare her Soul         Forget Me Not         Gogo Fish: The Fossil That Changed the World         Hidden Messages         Horse Head         I (honestly) Love You         Moss Lane         Muttaburrasaurus         Nature As Explained By Theatre         Needle In The Haystack         Pri-Mates         Refractions

12:15, Saturday Night

Synopsis:
Confusion at the brothel.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, NSW    27 Jan 2007

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Wildcards Week 2

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79966

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Change In the Weather, A

Synopsis:
Weatherman Drew has correctly predicted the weather for the last 184 days - without any help - he just knows. He starts to think he is controlling the weather and that he can now start controlling those around him

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, WA    19 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Rockwood Productions, Damage Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67573

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Domestic Bliss

Synopsis:
Chris Domestic-Bliss is holding a party to celebrate his birthday. Family secrets come out which get more and more sick and bizarre

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, WA    12 Aug 2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78541

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Dora Green Decides to Bare her Soul

Synopsis:
What do a young woman with a naked ambition, a hardened criminal with a soft spot for the ladies, and an old girl with a penchant for the dentist have in common? Andrea Gibbs. She combines her gift for characterisation with the formidable talents of three award-winning West Australian comic writers to bring you three unique monologues

Notes:
part of Starkers - Combines Naked Ambition by Kate Mulvany, Nature's Pocket by Luke Milton and Dora Green Decides to Bare her Soul by Damon Lockwood.

1st Produced:
Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, WA    12 Jul 2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/72510

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Forget Me Not

Synopsis:
Developed from a news report, Forget Me Not tells of a man who contracted the virus herpes simplex (the disease that causes cold sores) only for the virus to lose its way in his body, causing his brain to swell, and resulting in him losing his memory, permanently, overnight. The play takes this astounding and fascinating condition and places it within a family unit that already has a complicated past.

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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
30 min black comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Gogo Fish: The Fossil That Changed the World

Synopsis:
Imagine a time when fish began a gradual move to dry land. Gogo Fish: The Fossil That Changed the World recreates the world of the Placoderms  water-borne, armour-plated evolutionary ancestors of humans that lived in the Kimberley 375 million years ago. The play takes you there with a time-travelling fish club. When you arrive in our prehistoric past, something amazing is happening to the Kimberley swamp fish. They are developing the bone structures of arms and legs. But . . . will the Placoderms realise that to be a fish out of water is progress? Gogo Fish is a Western Australian story with international significance, a comedy based on scientific fact.

Notes:
Perth Metropolitan Schools touring

1st Produced:
Various, Various Western Australian locations, WA    18 Aug 2008

Organisations:
Barking Gecko Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78131

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Hidden Messages

Synopsis:
Someone has been leaving a teenage girl (CARRIE) secret admirer messages in a different Shakespeare play each week in the school library. On the day he was to reveal himself, a series of unforseen wacky occurrences seem to prevent this revelation from ever happening.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
teen comedy 35 min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  Doubling is possible. Could have a smaller cast

Further Reference:
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Horse Head

Synopsis:
In the Godfather, the head of a horse is cut off and placed in the bed of a Hollywood film director for the refusal of a favour... ever thought about the two guys that had to put it there?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, WA    29 Jul 2008

Organisations:
the Blue Room Season

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/85453

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I (honestly) Love You

Synopsis:
Nominated Best Play in Western Australia, this comedy gem follows two people inflicted with a truth telling disease, as they meet and fall in love.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
the Kraine Theater, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Lockwood Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Moss Lane

Synopsis:
A group of neighbours take refuge in one of their houses after everyone in their street has been mysteriously killed. Moss Lane is an exploration into the insular nature of the (rapidly increasing) Australian suburb, the subconscious ramifications this environment creates and the characters that spring from it...or rather that remain deeply immersed inside it.

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
TYA 60 min black comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Muttaburrasaurus

Synopsis:
Professor Julius is launching his new book on the Muttaburrasaurus. He is standing in front of his audience with a Muttaburrasaurus skull, explaining how the human race is far superior to dinosaurs, when he accidentally clonks his own head on the snout of the skull, revealing its purpose  it is a key to time travel. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Puppetry, comedy 50 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Nature As Explained By Theatre

Synopsis:
What happens to the male praying mantis in his post coital doom? How does the dung-house caterpillar live with its awful stench? And how does the Screaming Budgett's Frog feel about looking like a turd left at the side of a waterhole? Some animals lend themselves perfectly to extreme comic personas. In Nature as Explained by Theatre, these natural wonders are revealed for the first ever time on stage. See interpretive scenes on Emperor Penguins, the naked Mole Rat and the Illuminated Net Devil. (Also includes a Blue Whale penis.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Rockwood Productions

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA comedy 50 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Needle In The Haystack

Synopsis:
In September 2009, Ohio, America, a man was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. After two hours and eighteen failed attempts to find a vein and insert the needle, the man was eventually given a weeks reprieve. This play is based on that occurrence.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
55 min drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pri-Mates

Synopsis:
Meet Doog and Doug, two prehistoric men at different stages of Evolution - a primitive odd couple. Trapped by a sabre-tooth tiger in the same cave, Doug and Doog join forces in a hilarious bid for survival that sees them move from considering each other as potential dinner items to forming a friendship. Join Doug and Doog in pre-historic surrounds as they accidentally discover fire, the wheel, art and language.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
TYA 45 min comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Refractions

Synopsis:
Refractions delves into the fractured relationship between a wife and a husband with a dark secret and a reflection that has a will of its own. Extraordinary lives are enacted in the most commonplace surroundings.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
TYA 40 min black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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