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Tee O'Neill

TEE O'NEILL

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  

Tee O'Neill's (aka Theresa O'Neill) writing has been awarded the RE Ross Trust Playwright's Award, the Siena College International Play Award and an International Residency at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She has been the recipient of a 2006 commendation for the Louis Esson Prize, a 2006 nomination for the NSW Premier's Award, 2007 AWGIE award and the ANPC/New Dramatists Award in NYC, and nominated twice for the Patrick White Play Award as well as the Wal Cherry Award. She won a Churchill Fellowship for Europe, US and Madagascar, and writing grants from the Australia Council and Arts VictoriA.

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         Ariadne & Sharon         Art And Soul         Barassi         Best Possible World         Dog's Play, The         Few Roos Loose In the Top Paddock, A         GR8Skin         Homage To Rembrandt         Hurry Harry here         Identity Thief         Kwaheri Africa         Last Antigone, The         Madagascar         Meant To Be Spoken         Melburnalia         Mostar         Natashas         Our Man Jaman         Professor Innocence         Queen Of Ringwood, The         Requiem For the Twentieth Century         Robert Mugabe Is Dead         Rooming         Scum         Second City         Stalking Matilda         View Of Geelong         Wall Project, The

Ariadne & Sharon

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Art And Soul

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Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (The Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. The set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork.

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Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic    18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

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Genre:
one act plays

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79761

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Barassi

Barassi
Barassi is the story of a champion Australian Rules footballer and coach, Ron Barassi. Barassi's premiership footballer Father wore number 31 in the 1940 VFL Grand Final and was later killed as a soldier in Tobruk. He left a small boy who dreamed of one day being just like his father. That same boy was developed into a champion by a loving, but no-nonsense mother and a formidable foster father, Norm Smith. This is the story of the boy who becomes the legend, and who shapes the mighty game we know as Australian Rules Footballour indigenous game, the game that demands courage, skill, determination, innovation, selflessness, and the bit of 31 that is in us all.

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1st Produced:
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia    26 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Jager Productions

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>>    978-0-86819-959-7

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Genre:
historical; political/social

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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AustLit BRN: 966140

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Best Possible World

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BPW is a play about friendship, love and citizenship. Peopled with eccentric characters from all over the world and set across two continents this tragic-comedy questions how integrity and survival can live together.

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aka Stalking matilda. Winner of the International playwriting Competition At Siena New York And short-listed for the Patrick White play of the year

1st Produced:
Mint Theatre In Dublin    2003

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the http://australianplays.org/ >>>, as Stalking Matilda   -

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Genre:
2 act play 100 min

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  doubling possible

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AustLit BRN: 679307

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Dog's Play, The

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Jemma, a city girl lives, works and survives in the innermost recesses of the teeming metropolis But her dogs keep her grounded they are her joy, connecting nature to nurture, while acting as gatekeepers to a world beyond.

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1st Produced:
The C.U.B. Malthouse In Melbourne    26 May 1999

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Sydney : Currency Press, in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 1999   086-8195871

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One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Cast of 5 - 1 female and dogs can be played by either sex

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AustLit BRN: 301865

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Few Roos Loose In the Top Paddock, A

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Yuppie couple Pete and Suzy's emotional and financial future was all rosy and in control until Ruby the roo shooter visits.

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Shortlisted for the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award.

1st Produced:
The C.U.B. Malthouse In Melbourne    26 May 1999

Organisations:
Commissioned by Playbox Theatre

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 1999   086-8195871

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Genre:
One Act 45 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
AustLit BRN: 301869

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GR8Skin

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Homage To Rembrandt

Synopsis:
An artist tries to win back his muses after selling out to commercialism

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Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (the Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. the set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork. Event titled Art and Soul.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre (Aust)    18 Nov 2000

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Commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company in 2000

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
AustLit BRN: 744643

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Hurry Harry here

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Identity Thief

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Kwaheri Africa

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One person show

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Last Antigone, The

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Australia's royal family are in crisis. Socialite recreational drug taking Princess Antigone is forced to beg on the streets with her mad, blind father. She returns back to the palace on news of the deaths of her brothers and tries to inspire her people. A political satire and a contemporary take on Sophocle's classic.

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Victorian College Of The Arts    2000

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Genre:
2 act tragi comedy 120 min

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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AustLit BRN: 744647

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Madagascar

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Based on the authors Great Aunt. Madagascar is an intensely physical, surreal and epic tale of an Irishwoman who harboured members of the indigenous resistance movement when the French invaded Madagascar in 1896.

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Written As part of A grant from the Churchill Fellowship & Arts Victoria, Madagascar was Also short-listed for the Griffin Award, the Patrick White Award (Aus), New York/New Dramatist Award And the Corcadorca Award (Ireland).

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Dublin Theatre Works Company    2004

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Genre:
2 act play 90 min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Cast (size of chorus is flexible) Minimum 6 actors

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AustLit BRN: 744640

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Meant To Be Spoken

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Some of Melbourne's most exciting playwrights present their own work in a Sunday afternoon celebration of new Australian playwriting. Featuring: Adam Cass, Patricia Cornelius, David Mence, Declan Green, Tee O'Neill, Hannie Rayson and Amelia Roper, hosted by Robert Reid.

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic    21 Feb 2010

Organisations:
2010 Searchlight Festival

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Genre:
short Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90312

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Melburnalia

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. . . [F]eaturing the CBD, Kew, St Kilda, Ringwood and Footscray. Melburnalia weaves together five specially commissioned new plays by outstanding local writers Kate Holden, Lally Katz, Ross Mueller, Tee O'Neill and Alice Pung. these short works form a single theatrical journey which transits from suburb to suburb and uncovers a city with many faces. Each play illuminates the extraordinary within the ordinary: paraphernalia and miscellanea yield up their stories. From the grungy backalleys of St Kilda to the boulevards of Kew; first love in Footscray and betrayal in Ringwood; from the wide lanes of the Maroondah Highway to the narrow arcades of Degraves St; from heroin to homosexuality; library to laneway; sex work to stage work; bohemians to bogans to boat people to an Apocalypse Bear. Melburnalia is a thought- provoking exploration of the diverse localities, peoples and meanings that come together to form 'Melbourne'.' Source; White Whale theatre website, www.whitewhaletheatre.com (Sighted: 19/05/2009)
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%23UOD

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written by Holden, Kate and Katz, Lally and Mueller, Ross and O'Neill, Tee (a.k.a. O'Neill, Theresa) and Pung, Alice

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria    01 Nov 2007

Organisations:
White Whale Theatre

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Genre:
short play

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AustLit BRN: 836166

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Mostar

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the play is based on the plight of an asylum seeker in Ireland.
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%23F$W

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shortlisted for the 2005 Patrick White Playwrights' Award

1st Produced:
Reading At The National Playwrights' Conference In Canberra    Jul 2005

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AustLit BRN: 744709

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Natashas

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A woman asks another woman for help in a quiet park at twilight. A psychological thriller about sex slavery.

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Performed As part of the Wall Project for theatre @ Risk

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Our Man Jaman

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the play was nominated for the Wal Cherry Script of the Year Award in 2005

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AustLit BRN: 744711

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Professor Innocence

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Queen Of Ringwood, The

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Requiem For the Twentieth Century

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Cassandra is granted eternal youth and is sent back in time. She sips wine at a cafe with Lorca, Picasso and Dali, sings with Marlene Dietrich. Falls in love with an Australian man she meets in Egypt. Cassandra knows all that will happen and is powerless to change anything

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AWGIE Awards, Stage Award, 2007: nominated

1st Produced:
New Ballroom, Trades Hall, Melbourne    17 Nov 2006

Organisations:
Theatre@Risk

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http://australianplays.org/   -

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Genre:
2 act play 110 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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AustLit BRN: 763791

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Robert Mugabe Is Dead

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Rooming

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A wandering international con woman faces her biggest challenge in a Prague Hotel room.

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Fifteen minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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AustLit BRN: 744672

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Scum

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Second City

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the local gallery is holding a telethon to raise the a half a million for a painting of their city. the money is raised but the painting goes missing and five very different members of the community are thrown together in a quest to get the painting back. Second City is a crackling comedy about finding a new point of view. This play can accommodate a large cast and is particularly ideal for Drama schools and young people's theatre companies.

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1st Produced:
Geelong Courthouse Theatre    2007

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Stalking Matilda

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A first world citizen disappears into the ocean. What was her involvement in a murder and arson attack. Was she victim or aggressor? the object of prejudice or its cunning practitioner? A group gathers to re-enact the recent history of the disappeared Matilda Lynch. As they attempt to understand her will they destroy her or could they destroy themselves? Employing a range of theatrical techniques, including a chorus of narrators, shifts in Dramatic style and genre, and movements backwards and forwards in time and space, this award winning play sets up a 'whodunit' around the death of an 'alien' that rapidly turns into a 'whydunit', with the finger of suspicion pointing at the protagonist herself.

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Originally commissioned by New York University (TISCH). Aka best possible World

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic    06 Aug 2005

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Genre:
Murder mystery with Greek chorus 75 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
AustLit BRN: 679307

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View Of Geelong

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Wall Project, The

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A collaborative writing project looking at the idea of a wall and its metaphors. 'Ellis uses the Middle East as a setting, in a scene where a boy has a bomb strapped to his body, in what Bendall says is a snapshot of community reaction to a wall appearing in the middle of a zoo. Wright deals with convicts being transported to Botany Bay while O'Neill examines the global sex trade in a thriller setting, with questions about the divide between the first and third worlds. . ..Her script examines the plight of an East European sex slave, inspired by a story she heard while a Drama student in London 20 years ago.' 'Tearing Down the Walls', the Age, 31 May 2005.
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%23F$q

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written by Tee O'Neill, Tom Wright and Ben Ellis

1st Produced:
Theatre@Risk Company In Melbourne    Jun 2005

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theatre@risk

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Genre:
five scenes

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67990

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