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Philip Albright (died 21 July 1959), was an American actor and writer who worked for a number of years in Australia. He came to Australia in 1949 to appear in Dream Girl on stage and decided to stay, becoming a writer at the ABC, on radio and TV. [1] He was one of the key radio writers for Ron Roberts Productions. [2]

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He wrote some of the first TV dramas in Australia. He died in 1959 and his play The Break was produced after his death. [3]

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The Break is a 1962 Australian play by Philip Albright. Albright was an American writer and actor who had moved to Australia. He died in 1959 and the play debuted after his death. It was an early Australian play to depict homosexuality. A manuscript dated from 1950 shows that Albright was working on the play well before it debuted. The play's setting was in Laura Masters flat in Potts Point. In October 1959 the play won equal second prize in Little Theatre Guild competition under the title The Bust.

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  1. "Comedienne resigns from the Colgate Show". The Sun . No. 13, 181. New South Wales, Australia. 29 April 1952. p. 22 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 31 August 2020 via National Library of Australia.
  2. Phil, Peter. Drama in Silent Rooms: A History of Radio Drama in Australia from the 1920s to the 1970s. Eureka Media. p. 318.
  3. "Australian Plays at Union Theatre". Sydney Morning Herald. 10 January 1962. p. 6.