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Australian playwright
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Male
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Birth:
29 October 1961(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Death:
2 May 2017(St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, City of Yarra, Melbourne, Australia)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Michael Gurr (29 October 1961 – 2 May 2017) was an Australian playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter.
Career
Gurr studied at National Theatre Drama School (NTDS) in St Kilda, Victoria, and while there wrote a number of short plays which were sent to Ray Lawler, then Literary Advisor to the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). In 1982 Gurr was invited to be Writer in Residence at the MTC and it was there that his first plays were produced.
His best-known plays include Crazy Brave and Sex Diary of an Infidel.
He worked as a speechwriter for a number of years for John Brumby and Steve Bracks, both of whom became Labor Premiers of Victoria.
He died on 2 May 2017. He is survived by his four siblings and his partner Brandon Hardie Jones.