Jenny Kemp (playwright)

Last updated

Jenny Kemp is an Australian theatre director and writer.

Contents

Career

The daughter of artist Roger Kemp, Kemp trained for one year at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. She next worked in experimental theatre in England before returning to Melbourne, where she attended a five-month workshop with Rowena Balos. She next joined Rob Meldrum in the Stasis Group, an alternative theatre company, at The Pram Factory. [1] [2]

Kemp directed student productions at the Rusden College of Advanced Education and went on to teach at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has been an honorary research associate at Monash University and has received an Australia Council for the Arts fellowship. [1] [3]

Her texts are often inspired by the visual art of Belgian painter Paul Delvaux. [4]

She has worked with Melbourne Theatre Company, the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Malthouse Theatre, the Australian Performing Group, Playbox Theatre and Belvoir St Theatre. She is writer and artistic director for Black Sequin Productions. [4] [3]

Awards

Kemp has been awarded the Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts and Green Room Awards for her work as a director and for her collaboration in dance. [3]

Selected works

Source: [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Taymor</span> American film and theatre director and writer (born 1952)

Julie Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design. Her 2002 film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue." She also directed the 2007 jukebox musical film Across the Universe, based on the music of the Beatles.

Lindy Davies is an Australian actress, director, actor trainer and performance consultant. She played Ruth Ballinger in the Australian soap opera Prisoner in 1985, and won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Malcolm. She went on to be the head of drama at the Victorian College of the Arts for over 11 years until 2007, and worked as a performance consultant on films including Afterglow (1997) and Away From Her (2006) with Julie Christie.

Vivienne Garrett is an Australian-based theatre, film and television actress. She is a theatre director, acting and voice coach and also a qualified yoga instructor and therapist. She was born in Sydney, NSW and now lives in Western Australia. Garrett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1970.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Theatre of Australia</span> Overview of theatre in Australia

Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the live performing arts in Australia: performed, written or produced by Australians.

Helen Morse is an English-born Australian actress who has appeared in films, on television and on stage. She won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1976 film Caddie, and starred in the 1981 miniseries A Town Like Alice. Her other film appearances include Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Agatha (1979), Far East (1982) and The Eye of the Storm (2011).

Robyn Archer, AO, CdOAL is an Australian singer, writer, stage director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, in Australia and internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robyn Nevin</span> Australian actress

Robyn Anne Nevin is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis.

Eloise Mignon is an Australian actress. She began her career starring in children's television shows: The Legacy of the Silver Shadow and Silversun before appearing in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Mignon possesses multiple citizenship, including Australia, France and the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joanna Murray-Smith</span> Australian playwright

Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.

Gideon Obarzanek is an Australian choreographer, director and performing arts curator. He was Artistic Associate with the Melbourne Festival (2015–2017), co-curator and director of 'XO State' at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (2015–2017). Obarzanek was appointed Chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2015 and Strategic Cultural Engagement Manager at Chancellery at the University of Melbourne in 2018.

Jan Cornall is an Australian singer, comedian and writer. Known for her contributions to queer music through the group Baba Yaga during the 1970s and the hit musical Failing in Love Again (1979), Jan Cornall was a leader in the women's comedy and cabaret resurgence of the early 1980s. She has contributed to Australian community theatre, addressing issues facing regional and rural women, and had a long involvement in forging cross cultural links with Indonesian and Australian writers and artists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peta Murray</span> Australian writer (born 1958)

Peta Murray is an Australian writer, born in Sydney in 1958. Best known as a playwright, she also writes short stories and essays and is a freelance dramaturg, director and occasional performer. She leads a parallel life as a teacher of creative writing and late-blooming academic researcher, in the higher education sector.

Annette Gale Edwards is an Australian theatre director, who has worked extensively throughout Australia and internationally. She has also directed for television and film.

Robert John Chuter is an Australian actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally McKenzie</span> Australian actress

Sally McKenzie also credited as Sally MacKenzie, is an Australian actress, director, playwright and screenwriter. She graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Queensland University of Technology.

Shari Sebbens is an Aboriginal Australian actress and stage director, known for her debut film role in The Sapphires (2012), as well as many stage and television performances. After a two-year stint as resident director of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC), in 2023 she will be directing productions by STC and Griffin in Sydney, as well as Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. She is on the board of Back to Back Theatre.

<i>The Black Sequin Dress</i> 1996 play written by Jenny Kemp

The Black Sequin Dress is a play by Australian playwright Jenny Kemp.

Andrea Moor is an actor based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is known for with roles in theatre, film and television. She is also a stage director and coordinator of actor training at QUT.

Anne-Louise Sarks is an Australian theatre director, writer and actor. She has been the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company since October 2021. Her partner is journalist Sean Kelly.

Andrea James is an Aboriginal Australian playwright and theatre director, best known for her plays Yangali Yangali and Sunshine Super Girl, the latter about tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley.

References

  1. 1 2 "Alaska in my freezer". Real Time 62. August–September 2004.
  2. Hamilton, Margaret (2011). Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia. Rodopi. pp. 93–118. ISBN   978-9401200554.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Jenny Kemp". australianplays.org.
  4. 1 2 Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel (2000). Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre. Routledge. p. 151. ISBN   1134767870.