John Romeril

John Henry Romeril (born October 26, 1945) is a contemporary Australian playwright.

John Romeril was born and grew up in Melbourne where he attended Monash University. [ [http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%23W0 Romeril, John (a.k.a. Romeril, John Henry)] (AustLit) Accessed: February 26, 2007.] His first plays, "I Don't Know Who To Feel Sorry For" (1969) and "Chicago, Chicago" (1970) were written while he was still a student. [ [http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/artists_literature/john_romeril/ John Romeril] (OzArts Online) Accessed: February 26, 2007.] Since then he has written over forty works including "Mrs Thally F" (1971), "The Floating World" (1975) and "The Kelly Dance" (1984). He has also written for television and the filmscript "One Night the Moon" was produced in 2001. His work has won the Canada-Australia Literary Award in 1976, the Victorian Government Drama Fellowship in 1988 and the Asialink Playwrighting Competition in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he received an Australia Council Creative Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and is currently the recipient of the University of New South Wales’ Literary Scholarship. [cite web
title = Playwright awarded UNSW Literary Fellowship
publisher = University of New South Wales
2006-05-02
url = http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprize/2007prize/Shortlist/index.cfm
accessdate = 2007-05-16 ]

Bibliography

Plays
* "I Don't Know Who to Feel Sorry For" (1973)
* "The Floating World" (1975)
* "Barstardy" (1982)
* "Kelly Dance" (1986)
* "Legends" (1986)
* "Definitely Not the Last: A rock'n'roll fable" (1989)
* "Black Cargo" (1991)
* "Love Suicides" (1997)
* "Miss Tanaka" (2001)

Filmscripts
* "One Night the Moon" (2001)

Secondary sources
* "John Romeril" edited by Gareth Griffiths (Rodopi, 1993)

External links

* [http://esvc001106.wic016u.server-web.com/contents/01/17/moon_interview.html One Night The Moon: Interview with John Romeril] at "Senses of Cinema"
* [http://www.melbourneworkerstheatre.com/downloads/romeril.pdf Is Australian Theatre in the Shit?] Forum transcript

References

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