David Keith Williamson AO is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson, Judy Davis and Baz Luhrmann.
Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
Griffin Theatre Company is an Australian theatre specialising in new works, based in Sydney. Founded in 1979, it is the resident theatre company at the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross. As of August 2022 the artistic director is Declan Green.
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director. He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man. His most recent plays are Mark Colvin's Kidney and Packer & Sons.
Nadia Tass is an Australian theatre director and film director and producer. She is known for the films Malcolm (1986) and The Big Steal (1990), as well as an extensive body of work in the theatre, both in Australia and internationally.
Amigos is a 2004 play by the Australian playwright David Williamson, published by Currency Press in 2004, which premiered with the Sydney Theatre Company.
James Cassius Williamson was an American actor and later Australia's foremost impresario, founding the J. C. Williamson's theatrical and production company.
Currency Press is a leading performing arts publisher and its oldest independent publisher still active. Their list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works.
The Coming of Stork was the first play written by David Williamson.
Captain Midnight, the Bush King is a 1911 Australian silent Western film about the fictitious bushranger Captain Midnight. It was the directorial debut of actor Alfred Rolfe. The film is based on the play of same name by W. J. Lincoln and Alfred Dampier. Captain Midnight, the Bush King is now considered lost.
Juggler's Three is an Australian play by David Williamson. It was based on the breakup of his first marriage, when he left his pregnant wife for a woman who left her husband.
Money and Friends is a 1991 Australian play written by David Williamson. Its world premiere was at the Queensland Theatre Company directed by artistic director Aubrey Mellor.
The Actors’ Company was a co-operative theatre company formed by a group of actors and directors in Sydney, Australia in 1975. It was the first serious attempt at a professional co-operative theatre in that city.
After the Ball is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson, published by Currency Press in 1997. Williamson wrote the play in response to his mother's death.
Birthrights is a 2003 play by David Williamson, published by Currency Press.
Dream Home is a comedy play by David Williamson. It had its world premiere in January 2015 at the Ensemble Theatre in a production directed by Williamson himself.
Holding the Man is a stage adaptation by Tommy Murphy of Tim Conigrave's memoir of the same title. It is one of the most successful Australian plays of recent times and the winner of multiple awards. It premiered in Sydney, and then across Australia, as well as internationally–on London's West End and in Los Angeles.
Nakkiah Lui is an Australian actor, writer and comedian. She is a young leader in the Australian Aboriginal community.
Kim David Carpenter is an Australian visual artist, theatre director, designer and devisor. For thirty years he was artistic director of his company, Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image.
