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Rick Viede

RICK VIEDE  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  


Rick is a writer and performer. He won the 2008 Griffin Award and the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for his debut play Whore. Whore was performed at Belvoir St B Sharp and the New York Summer Play Festival in 2009. He was an Affiliate Playwright with Griffin Theatre Company working on two commissions and staging the short play Autumn which has also been published by Currency Press. Rick was recently given a New Work grant from the Australia Council to write two new plays: The Hoax and Oranges & Lemons and is also under commission from Bell Shakespeare Company for Gull. He has been shortlisted for numerous other awards and won the Shaw Prize for essays. Rick also created the satiric character, Glace Chase, who has performed to critical acclaim throughout Australia and internationally at such venues as the Public Theater NYC, Belvoir Street Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre, The Butterfly Club and festivals including The Melbourne Comedy Festival, Mardi Gras Festival, Midsumma and Feast Festival. Glace has also created content specifically for online, working in conjunction with New Mardi Gras and Evolution Publishing to produce a series of gate-crashings & celebrity stalkings to tie in with the Mardi Gras Festival. He has also created content with Australia's leading gay & lesbian online site SameSame.com.au. He holds a B.A. from Monash University and recently completed a Grad. Dip. in Screenwriting at AFTRS.

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

 Autumn         Hoax, A         Oranges And lemons         Road Kill         Whore

Autumn

Rick Viede
Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, The fates, Seasons and The Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit.

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Hoax, A

Rick Viede
When social worker Ant discovers Currah, a young indigenous girl with a horrific past, he's certain he's found the way to make a difference. When literary agent extraordinaire Ronnie Lowe discovers Currah, she's certain she's found marketing gold. Now Currah's got the world at her feet, an army of fans and isn't returning any of Ant's calls. Finding himself flung aside, Ant will do anything to be part of the spotlight. Inspired by the recent spate of fabricated misery memoirs, A Hoax is a vicious satire on the politics of identity, modern celebrity and the peddling of abuse culture.

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2010 Griffin Award

1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre, Brisbane    05 May 2012

Company:
La Boite Theatre Company in association with Griffin Theatre company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>>    978-0-86819-948-1

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Oranges And lemons

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highly commended 2012 Max Afford Playwrights' Award

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Road Kill

Synopsis:
A dark and stormy night - a car breaks down on a deserted road

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Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park Victoria, Australia    22 Jan 2008

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Whore

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Young, fearless and full of wanderlust Sara finds herself in London selling cleaning products in a call centre. Then she meets Tim, and her path takes an unexpected turn. For these two Aussies living it large in London everything is exhilarating, delightfully dangerous and full of possibility. When a body is discovered in the apartment upstairs the thrill of anonymity gives way to rising horror as Sara finds herself at the very edge of the person she once was. With originality and poetic wit, Whore is an unflinching exploration of the price of freedom, ambition and the high-risk ride that is coming-of-age

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Genre:
90 min Contemporary Gothic Thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  Doubling in Male roles is possible

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