Finegan Kruckemeyer

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Finegan Kruckemeyer is an Australian playwright. He has had 100 commissioned plays performed on six continents and in six languages.[1]

He was an inaugural recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, and winner of the 2017 international Mickey Miner Lifetime Achievement Award for services to Theatre for Young Audiences, and 2015 David Williamson Award for Excellence in Australian Playwrighting. His work has been performed in over 200 international festivals; all Australian states and territories; eight US national tours; five UK national tours; and at venues including the Sydney Opera House[2] (six works), New York’s New Victory Theater[3] (three works), Edinburgh’s Imaginate Festival (three works), Dublin’s Abbey Theatre,[4] Shanghai’s Malan Flower Theatre and DC’s Kennedy Center.[5]

As well as the Sidney Myer Fellowship and , Finegan and his work have received 37 awards, at least one each year for the past thirteen. These include seven AWGIE Awards, the Helpmann Award for Children’s Theatre, Rodney Seaborn Award, Jill Blewett's Playwright's Award and .[citation needed]

Finegan has been a keynote speaker at the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, the Edinburgh International Children’s Theatre Festival (Scotland), TYA USA National Conference, and the ITYARN Conference (Argentina), among others. He has delivered papers or sat on panels at conferences/festivals in nine countries, with papers published.[citation needed]

He was one of 21 selected worldwide for the ASSITEJ Next Generation (young leaders in children’s theatre), and has sat on numerous arts boards including the Australian Script Centre and Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Arts Tasmania’s Assistance to Individuals, Tas Literary Awards and Artsbridge panels, and the Story Island Project board (promoting youth literacy and empowerment through storytelling with marginalised young people).[citation needed]

Finegan was born in Ireland and moved to Adelaide, Australia aged eight.[citation needed]

Plays[]

  • Andrew Corder Thinks Twice
  • At Sea, Staring Up
  • Bastien Und Bastienne (Adapted Recitativo)
  • Big Smoke
  • Boats
  • Books And Bites
  • The Boy at the Edge of Everything
  • The Boy With The Longest Shadow
  • Boys Will Be Boys
  • The Company I Keep
  • Con Artists
  • Cue the Chorus: A Youth Presumed
  • Dancing Back Home
  • Dinner
  • Drums In The Night (Translation)
  • Escape From Peligro Island
  • The Falling Room And The Flying Room
  • Four On A Couch
  • The Grumpiest Boy in the World
  • The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly
  • Heartburn Hotel (Adaptation)
  • Helena And The Journey Of The Hello
  • The Hip-Hop Monologues
  • The Holey Book
  • The House That Jack Filled
  • Human Geography
  • If I Jumped, I'd Fly
  • If Only the Lonely Were Home
  • I'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of The Border)
  • Love
  • Man Covets Bird
  • The Minister's Children
  • Moving Mountains
  • My Heart is a Hall
  • My Mother Told Me Not To Stare
  • My Robot
  • Night Places
  • Plays For My Girlfriend
  • Positions Vacant
  • Queen Of The Snakepit
  • Ruby Bruise
  • Ruby Bruised
  • The Second Echo Ensemble
  • Shadow Dreams
  • She Beside Me, Sitting
  • She Would Walk the Sky
  • Simon's Final Sound
  • Smackbeth
  • Snapshot
  • The Snow
  • Suzette Who Set to Sea
  • Sylvia South and the Word Catcher
  • This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
  • This Much Of Me
  • This Uncharted Hour
  • Those Who Fall in Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor
  • Tough Beauty
  • The Tragical Life Of Cheeseboy
  • Trouble On Planet Earth
  • The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You
  • We're All Going To Die Of Cancer Anyway
  • When The Penny Drops
  • When The Pictures Came
  • When We Lived In Uncle's Hat
  • Wolf

References[]

  1. ^ "Finegan Kruckemeyer (1981 - )". Doollee.com. The Playwright's Database. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Man Covets Bird at Sydney Opera House". liveguide.com.au. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  3. ^ "ON THE SPOT with Finegan Kruckemeyer". New Victory Theater Blog. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  4. ^ "The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly". Abbey Theatre. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  5. ^ "New Visions / New Voices - 2012". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 21 June 2013.

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