Justin Monjo (born 1963, New York) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and actor, best known for his work on Farscape and penning the Farscape movie in 2014.
Monjo is the son of children's author F. N. Monjo III and the great-great-grandson of arctic furrier F. N. Monjo. [1]
Monjo graduated from NIDA in 1985, alongside actresses Catherine McClements and Sonia Todd, and director Baz Luhrmann.
Monjo wrote Adrian Pasdar's film debut screenplay Cement and worked on Young Lions . He created the 2005 TV series The Alice with Robyn Sinclair.
His adaptation with his former NIDA teacher Nick Enright of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton enjoyed huge critical and box-office success at the Festivals of Sydney and Perth, on tour of Australia, at the Festival of Dublin, and in London.
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1984 | One Night Stand | American Sailor | Feature film |
1988 | Badlands 2005 | Braggs | TV film |
1988 | The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy | Hendrick | TV movie |
1989 | The Salute of the Jugger | Dog-Boy | Feature film |
1993 | Official Denial | Franklin Kolbe | TV movie |
1993 | Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story | Bill Darden | TV movie |
1993 | Escape from Absolom (aka No Escape) | Technician #1 | Feature film |
1995 | In Pursuit of Honor | Captain Geoffrey Overton | TV movie |
1995 | Babe | Other character voices (voice actor) | Feature film |
1995 | Singapore Sling: Old Flames | Dave Ruxton | TV movie |
1995 | Tunnel Vision | Craig Breslin | TV movie |
1998 | Dark City | Taxi Driver | Feature film |
1998 | Never Tell Me Never | Marty Hall | TV movie |
1998 | In the Winter Dark | Circus Man | Feature film |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1987 | Vietnam | Tenzy | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
1987 | Nancy Wake | Ray | Miniseries, 1 episode |
1989 | Mission: Impossible | Bakunin | TV series, S1 E8: "The Pawn" |
1996 | The Beast | Lieutenant Henderson | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
1997 | Big Sky | Dave Brock | TV series, S1 E2: "Navstar" |
1997 | Roar | Julian | TV series, pilot episode |
1998 | Flipper | Calvin Frazier | TV series, S3 E3: "Swimming with Sharks" |
1998 | Murder Call | Roland Lacey | TV series, S2 E18: "Instrument of Death" |
2005 | The Cooks | TV Evangelist | TV series, S1 E12: "Honey and Wounds" |
Year | Title | Role | Venue / Co. |
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1983 | Kennedy's Children | Barman | NIDA Parade Theatre, Sydney, Royal Military College, Duntroon |
1984 | Holidaymakers | Sergei Basov | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1984 | Three French Farces: La Grange | Impromptu at Versailles | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1984 | Richard III | George (Duke of Clarence) / Ratcliff / Cardinal Bourchier / Second Citizen | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1985 | A Dream Play | Actor | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1985 | Funeral Games | Actor | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1985 | The Greeks Play 1 The War | Actor | NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
1986 | She Stoops to Conquer | Tony Lumpkin | Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC |
1987 | The Island | Actor | St John's Hall, Sydney |
1987 | Pericles | Actor | Wharf Theatre with STC |
1987 | A Lie of the Mind | Actor | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
1989 | The Conquest of the South Pole | Actor | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
1990 | The Emigrants | Actor | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with Auto Da Fe Theatre |
1993 | Fortune | Actor | Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company |
1996 | A View from the Bridge | Marco | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
Romeo is Bleeding | Australia & United States | ||
The Year I Started Believing in Vietnamese Fortune Tellers |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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2000 | Cement | Screenplay | Film |
2004 | The Alice | Writer | TV film |
2010 | Roadman | Script editor | Film |
2012 | Bait 3D | Additional writing | Feature film |
2013 | The Turning | Screenplay | Anthology film, segment: "Sand" |
2015 | Spear | Co-writer | Feature film |
2017 | Jungle | Screenplay | Feature film |
2018 | KinShip | Creative consultant | Short film |
2019 | Storm Boy | Screenplay | Feature film |
2022 | Everything In Between | Creative consultant | Film |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1998–99 | Wildside | Writer | TV series, 2 episodes |
1999–2003 | Farscape | Writer | TV series, 14 episodes |
2000 | Farscape | Creative consultant | TV series, 15 episodes |
2002 | Young Lions | Writer | TV series, 2 episodes |
2005–06 | The Alice | Co-creator | TV series, 22 episodes |
2008 | The Strip | Writer | TV series, S1 E9: "House of Ill Repute" |
2008–09 | Rush | Writer | TV series, S1-2, 4 episodes |
2013 | Paper Giants: Magazine Wars | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2013 | Serangoon Road | Writer | TV series, S1 E7: "My Girl" |
2014 | Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2014 | The Code | Writer | TV series, S1 E5 |
2015 | Catching Milat | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2015 | Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door | Writer | Miniseries, S1 E1 |
2016 | Tomorrow, When the War Began | Writer | Miniseries, S1 E6 |
2016 | Brock | Writer | Miniseries, S1 E1 |
2016–17 | The Secret Daughter | Creator | TV series, 12 episodes |
2018 | Underbelly Files: Chopper | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2022 | Bali 2002 | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2023 | The Claremont Murders | Writer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Venue / Co. |
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1994 | That Eye, The Sky | Adaptor | Stanley Palmer Cultural Centre, Sydney, Playhouse, Melbourne, Playhouse, Perth, Space Theatre, Adelaide with Burning House Theatre Company for Sydney Festival |
1998; 1999; 2001; 2002; 2006 | Cloudstreet | Adaptor | Berth 9, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Fremantle Dock, Playhouse, Adelaide, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Theatre Royal, Sydney, Playhouse, Brisbane, Olivier Theatre, London, Harvey Lichtenstein Theater, New York, Darwin Entertainment Centre, University of Melbourne |
2005; 2006 | Ray's Tempest | Scriptwriter | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with MTC |
2016; 2018 | That Eye, The Sky | Adaptor | New Theatre, Sydney, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide |
2019 | Cloudstreet | Adaptor | Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne |
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