Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright, dramaturg, and teacher, whose plays have won awards and been produced around the world since 1982.
Timothy Daly | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | Kafka Dances |
Early life and education edit
Daly graduated from UWS Theatre Nepean in 1992.[1]
Career edit
Daly is a playwright, dramaturg, and teacher. Many of his plays have been produced both in Australia and internationally[2] since 1982.[3]
His 2008 play Derrida in Love, was written for Jacki Weaver, which she performed in a sold-out season[citation needed] at the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.[4]
Daly's play Kafka Dances[2] has won a dozen national and international awards since its premiere and is one of the most frequently internationally performed Australian plays.[citation needed]
His play Richard III (or almost) premiered at the 2011 Festival d'Avignon and followed with a Paris season in October–November 2012. Daly's play, The Man in the Attic, was awarded the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for best new play.[5] It has been staged in Paris, at the 2013 Festival d'Avignon.
Recognition edit
Awards edit
- The Man in the Attic – Winner of the Patrick White Award for Best New Play
- Kafka Dances – Winner of a Sydney Theatre Critics' award for Best New Australian Play; Finalist for both the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award; Winner of 5 South African Vita (now known as the Naledi Theatre Awards)
- Outlanders – Winner of Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award
- The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner – Winner of Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play; finalist in the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for drama
- Three Australian Council for the Arts Literary Awards[6]
Residencies and fellowships edit
- Keesing Studio Residency Award (Paris) from the Australia Council for the Arts, 2013.[7]
- Friends of the National Library Creative Arts Fellowship from the National Library of Australia, 2017,[8] to progress a script for psychological thriller, Perfume.
Selected works edit
Theatre edit
- The Don's Last Innings (Sydney Theatre Company; Launceston Theatre Company; Riverina Theatre Company; State Theatre Company of South Australia)
- Derrida in Love (Ensemble Theatre)
- Kafka Dances (Griffin Theatre Company; Sydney Theatre Company; La Boite Theatre Company; Cherry Tree Theatre; Market Theatre; Zenith Theatre; High-Doh Theatre; Axis Theater; State Theatre Company of South Australia; Cyrano's Theater Company; Star Théâtre; Theatre des Opprimés; Théâtre de Chevilly-Larue; Comédie De l'Est; Saint-Cyr-l'École; Saint-Maur-des-Fossés; Festival de Cornouaille; Festival d'Avignon and toured to Strasbourg; Valenciennes; Nîmes and Draveil)
- The Man in the Attic (Star Théâtre; Festival d'Avignon; Théatre l'Avant Seine; Théatre Bois de l'Épée)
- Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia (National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduation production commission)
- The Quiz King (New Theatre)
- The Critic Assassinated (National Institute of Dramatic Art; Mummers Theatre)
- The Moonwalkers (Griffin Theatre Company; Street Theatre Company)
- Complicity[2] (Marian Street Theatre)
- The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner[2] (Griffin Theatre Company; Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide)
- Livingstone[2] (Marian Street Theatre; Ice House Theater; Effie Crump Theatre; Riverina Theatre Company; Brisbane Arts Theatre; Pymble Players and toured regionally to Kalgoorlie)
Television, translations and adaptations edit
- Song For Two in the Night (Theodor Weißenborn)
- The Double Bass (Patrick Süskind) Ensemble Theatre
- Liebelei (Flirtations) (Arthur Schnitzler) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Interior (Maurice Maeterlinck) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Hours of the Dying (Hans Johst) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Neighbours (various episodes, Grundy Corporation)
- A Lapse in Behaviour (Australian Broadcasting Corporation; British Broadcasting Corporation; South African Broadcasting Corporation; New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Opera librettos edit
- How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints (based on the novel by Kathy Lette; music by Alan John; produced by Victorian Opera)[when?]
References edit
- ^ Daly, T. (2013). Richard III (or almost). Lulu.com. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-291-38867-1. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Timothy Daly". AustralianPlays.org. 13 April 2015. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Timothy Daly". AusStage. 26 August 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Derrida in Love". AusStage.
- ^ "Sydney Theatre Company - Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship". Sydney Theatre Company.
- ^ "Literature Assessment Meeting Report July 2012". Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ "Australia Council Annual Report 2012-13" (PDF). Annual Report. Australia Council for the Arts: 11. 2013. ISSN 0725-7643.
- ^ "Creative Arts Fellows". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
Further reading edit
- "Timothy Daly - Playwright". Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2014.