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Australian writer
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Male
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Birth:
1955(Australia, Australia; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Daniel Keene (born 1955) is an Australian playwright whose work has been performed throughout the world. Keene's plays have been performed in Australia, France, Poland and the United States. Many of his plays have been published in French translation.
He was co-founder with Ariette Taylor of the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project. With her he won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre (Green Room Awards, 1998) and the Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts.
Keene is the winner of a number of drama awards in Australia and the 2002 production of his play Terminus, directed by Laurent Laffargue at the TNT in Toulouse and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, won the Prix Pierre Jean Jacques Gaultier for best direction.
Television scripts
- The Hour Before My Brother Dies (1986)
Film scripts
- Silent Partner (2001)
- Tom White (2004)
- Em4Jay (2006)
Awards
- 1989 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Louis Esson Prize for Drama for '"Silent Partner
- 1996 winner Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play for Beneath Heaven
- 1996 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for Because You are Mine
- 1998 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Louis Esson Prize for Drama for Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day: Five Plays
- 2000 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for Scissors, Paper, Rock
- 2003 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for Half and Half
- 2004 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Original Screenplay for Tom White
- 2009 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for The Serpent's Teeth: Two Plays
- 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Drama Script (Stage) for Life Without Me