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MELITA ROWSTON |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Melita Rowston is a writer, director and dramaturge. She graduated from NIDA with a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts - Directing - in 2000 and is currently working as a dramaturge on the literary staff at the Griffin Theatre. In 2002 she received the ANPC's Hot Spot mentorship grant to develop her play Solitude in Blue for production as part of the Stablemates season, sponsored by Griffin Theatre. In 2001 she received a Playworks Imminent Productions grant for swing girl which was staged at the SBW Stables Theatre to critical acclaim. In 1999 she received a Playworks development grant for Night Reflections, a play which was originally written and performed in 1998 at Melbourne Uni.. This outing received a Melbourne University Creative Development grant, and attendance at the International Festival of Young Playwrights 1999. In 2000, Night Reflections was restaged after development as part of the NIDA Director's Projects season. In 1999 she first wrote Solitude in Blue, which was staged at PACT Theatre, NSW. - http://www.ozscript.org/playwright400.html
Plays by Melita Rowston
Crush | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queen Street Studio, Darlinghurst, Australia | Nov 2010 | ||||
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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 | #122915 | |||
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Notes: | aka Crushed. Part of Queen Street Studios Off the Shelf residency aims to breathe life into those scripts that have been written but never produced; put up on a shelf somewhere, amidst old Penguin Classics and tattered unused textbooks, to get dusty and mouldy and lifeless. . . | |||||
Synopsis: | But the heavier theme of stranger danger borne out of the 80s kidnappings; kids being taken from the safety of their beds and how that might have affected an 80s childs view of the world. | |||||
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Diver, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Short + Sweet Gala Final and Awards Night, Sydney | Feb 2008 | ||||
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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 | #129681 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | short monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | an initially funny but ultimately disquieting monologue by a strange, geeky man obsessed with Sydneys monorail and photographic colour-codes, but hiding some obscured trauma and possibly disastrous intent. | |||||
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Night Reflections | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #129680 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Solitude In Blue | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #129685 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Spew | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | In The raw Festival | |||||
| 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 | #129682 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Sugar Bomb | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Fitzroy Hotel, Woolloomooloo | 2004 | ||||
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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 | #122916 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Swing Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | SBW Stables Theatre | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52744 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Monologue/s 70 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Evie is desperate to become a star of the musical stage but her parents disapprove. She tries to rise above their disapproval - but is she strong enough? | |||||
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