Daniel Keene (born 1955) is an Australian playwright whose work has been performed throughout the world.[1]

Daniel Keene
BornDaniel Keene
1955 (age 68–69)
Melbourne, Australia
Occupationdramatist and theatre director
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksTom White

Career

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Keene's plays have been performed in Australia, France, Poland and the United States. Many of his plays have been published in French translation.[2]

He cofounded Tide Theatre in 1979 with Rhonda Wilson.[3] He was also a co-founder, with Ariette Taylor, of the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.[4]

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With Ariette Taylor, Keene won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre (Green Room Awards, 1998) and the Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts.[4]

He 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.[5]

Other awards include:

Selected works

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Drama

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  • All Souls (1993)
  • Une heure avant la mort de mon frere (1995)
  • Little City (1996)
  • Silence Complice / Terminus (1999)
  • To Whom It May Concern: And Other Plays (2000)
  • Avis aux Interesses (2000)
  • Pieces Courtes (2001)
  • Half and Half (2002)
  • La Marche de l'Architecte / Les Paroles (2002)
  • Cinq Hommes / Moitie-Moitie (2003)
  • Terminus and Other Plays (2003)
  • Paradise: Codes Inconnus 1 (2004)
  • The Nightwatchman (2005)
  • The Serpent's Teeth: 2 Plays (2008)
  • The Cove: 8 Short Works (2009) eight short plays presented by If Theatre and directed by Matt Scholten. Plays included Cafe Table, Somewhere in the Middle of the Night, To Whom It May Concern, A Glass of Twilight, The Morning After, A Death, Two Shanks and The First Train.
  • Life Without Me (2010)
  • Boxman (2011)
  • Photographs of A
  • The Long Way Home (2014)
  • Mother (2015)

Television scripts

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Film scripts

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References

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  1. ^ Biography at personal website Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 July 2013
  2. ^ Auslit - Daniel Keene
  3. ^ Payne, Pamela (6 July 1990), "Life with an expiry date", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ^ a b Black Pepper Publishing - Daniel Keene, Biography
  5. ^ ABC Classic FM - Midday presented by Margaret Throsby
  6. ^ IMDB - "Silent Partner"
  7. ^ IMDB - "Tom White"
  8. ^ IMDB - "Em 4 Jay"
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