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KATE MULVANY
Nationality: Australian
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency
Kate Mulvany graduated with a BA from Curtin University. She is an actress who has played lead roles with major Australian Theatre companies as well as appearing on TV and in film. Her other plays include: Father O Friendly, Derek Drives a Datsun, Vaseline Lollies, Blood and Bone (Winner of Naked Theatre Co's Write Now"! Award), Naked Ambition, Storytime, the Danger Agewhich was shortlisted for the STC's Patrick White Award and won the 2004 Philip Parsons Awardand Somewhere which opened Railway Street Theatre's new venue in 2005.
Research: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/231408
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15 Minutes Of Fame Blood And Bone Danger Age, The Derek Drives a Datsun Embalmer! the Musical Father O Friendly Harp in The South, The Heartbreak Hotel Jasper Jones Masquerade Medea Naked Ambition Rasputin Affair, The Seed, The Somewhere Story Time Vaseline Lollies Web, The Welcome to Dullsville15 Minutes Of Fame
Synopsis:
Six monologues about those who have it,those who want it ,those who want to get rid of it and those who should never have had it in the first place
Notes:
written by Jane Colenutt, Shane McCarthy, Nick Miller, Kate Mulvany, Gibson Nolte and David Ryding
1st Produced:
The Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, WA
07 Mar 2003
Organisations:
Capgun Productions
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Genre:
short monologue
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24426
Top of PageBlood And Bone
Synopsis:
the play is a psychological piece about 3 disparate characters who find each other in their way. Based on the myth behind Blues legend Robert Johnson, the play deals with issues such as self belief and the threat of complacency.
Notes:
part of Write Now! Winning Shorts, A presentation of the works of the three winners from this year's Young Playwright's Competition. 'Mogadishu' by Nick Marchand, 'stones in my Passway' by Tom Holloway and 'Blood and Bone' by Kate Mulvany.
1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw
06 Dec 2001
Organisations:
Young Playwrights' Competition 2001
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Music:
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Genre:
short play
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17702
Top of PageDanger Age, The
Synopsis:
It's 1942, and in the small town of Kalbarri in Western Australia, there's a little boy with a lot on his mind. He's a target at school because of his asthma, and his mum is having an affair with the local Japanese doctor. then John receives a disturbing phone call from the President of the United States and, with his ragtag army of misfits, he sets about saving Kalbarri from destruction.
Notes:
shortlisted for the STC's Patrick White Award And won the 2004 Philip Parsons Award
1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, QLD
26 Feb 2008
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playlab Press
Music:
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Genre:
comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: doubling
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78314
Top of PageDerek Drives a Datsun
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Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageEmbalmer! the Musical
Synopsis:
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written by Kate Mulvany And Pip Branson
1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Theatre Company
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Genre:
musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageFather O Friendly
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Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHarp in The South, The
A great Australian novel. A landmark theatre event. A portrait of Sydney as it once was. The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s. The beating heart of this exuberant play is its carousel of characters. From hard-boozing Hugh Darcy and his long-suffering 'Missus' Margaret, to their children, sensitive and romantic Roie, smart and sassy Dolour, and poor little Thady who ran out onto the overcrowded road and has been trying to find his way home ever since. Along the way there's the Chinese greengrocer Lick Jimmy, who tempts Dolour with his 'poor man's oranges', no-nonsense brothel madam Delie Stock, who tempts everyone with her girls, and handsome young Charlie Rothe, who tempts Roie with the promise of a better life. Kate Mulvany brings her trademark humour and tenderness to bear on Ruth Park's much-loved novels in this epic adaptation. Join the Darcy family as they journey through laughter and tragedy, booze and blood, poverty and cruelty, but most of all love.
Notes:
Adapted from the novels by Ruth Park
1st Produced:
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
16 Aug 2018
Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 10 Female: 9 Other: -
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Top of PageHeartbreak Hotel
Synopsis:
Popping up for one night only at the Stables theatre - walk down a lonely street to the Heartbreak Hotel. An exploration of the human heart, and the nooks and crannies of the theatre, the Hotel is a full-on sensory, immersive and transformative happening. Developed by the Griffin Studio in response to the public's submission of objects and tales of woe, the Hotel promises to deliver guests an evening of cathartic entertainment. What find you in the land of heartbreak? Unburden yourself in the Crazy Break-up Behaviour confession booth, healing apace in a one-on-one counseling session with famed Agony Aunt, Glace Chase. Take a trip down memory lane to schoolyard love in Kate Mulvany's Yes, No, Maybe. For the curious, stimulation physical and emotional in the Sensory Sound Lock (specializing, conversely, in unlocking repressed memories of heartache/break with Macaroons, feathers etc). Enter the Teen Love Crush for a whisper of love unrequited and excruciating rhyming couplets. Ramp up the meloDrama in Sands Through the Hour Glass - a contemporary performance duo examining a hotel murder, and the marriage that started it all. Acknowledging, though, that sometimes people should really just Shut Up, and that physical and facial expression really can say it all, some of the Hotel's residents will be exploring the shattering of dreams in movement. Finally, keeping it real, Ian Meadow's will be placing Dummy somewhere so secret in the hotel, even the concierge is ignorant of its whereabouts. . .. Source: www.griffintheatre.com.au/
Notes:
written by Meadows, Ian and Mulvany, Kate
1st Produced:
SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney
08 Jun 2011
Organisations:
Griffin Theatre company
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
AustLit BRN: 923051
Top of PageJasper Jones
Its summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia. Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, Civil Rights marches are on the streets, and womens liberation is stirring but at home in Corrigan Charlie Bucktin dreams of writing the Great Australian Novel. Charlies 14 and smart. But when 16-year-old, constantly-in-trouble Jasper Jones appears at his window one night, Charlies out of his depth. Jasper has stumbled upon a terrible crime in the scrub nearby, and he knows hes the first suspect that goes with the colour of his skin. He needs every ounce of Charlies bookish brain to help solve this awful mystery before the town turns on Jasper.
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Kate Mulvanys adaptation of Craig Silveys award-winning novel is wise and beautiful it features a cast of finely drawn teenagers and grown-ups, all searching for their own kind of truth. A coming-of-age story, Jasper Jones interweaves the lives of complex individuals all struggling to find happiness among the buried secrets of a small rural community.
1st Produced:
Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth
17 Jul 2014
Organisations:
Barking Gecko Theatre Company
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: doubling possible
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/111363
Top of PageMasquerade
Synopsis:
In a wondrous world of riddles and hidden treasure, bumbling Jack Hare is on a race against time to deliver a message of love from the Moon to the Sun. Far, far away in a world just like ours, a mother cheers her son Joe with the tale of Jack Hare's adventure. But when Jack's mission goes topsy-turvy, Joe and his mum must come to the rescue, and the line between the two worlds becomes blurred forever. Bringing to life Kit Williams' iconic picture book, Masquerade stars a talking fish, a tone-deaf barbershop quartet, a gassy pig, a precious jewel and a few mere mortals. It's a magical adventure that is, at its heart, about the love between a parent and a child.
Notes:
based on the book by Kit Williams; live music by Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen
1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House For Sydney Festival
07 Jan 2015
Organisations:
Griffin Theatre company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia
Music:
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 8 Other: -
Further Reference:
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Top of PageMedea
Two boys are playing a game. They fight, they laugh, they jump up and down, they play dead. Downstairs, their parents Medea and Jason are arguing. As the shouting gets louder, their bedroom will no longer be able to protect them from the violence of the outside world. Their iconic fate, at the hands of their mother, will ensure that they enter mythology as two of the most tragic siblings of all time.
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by Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sark.s Original Playwright: Euripides
1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW
11 Oct 2012
Organisations:
Belvoir
1st Published:
Oberon Books
Music:
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Genre:
adaptation 75 min
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105473
Top of PageNaked Ambition
Synopsis:
What do a young woman with a naked ambition, a hardened criminal with a soft spot for the ladies, and an old girl with a penchant for the dentist have in common? Andrea Gibbs. She combines her gift for characterisation with the formidable talents of three award-winning West Australian comic writers to bring you three unique monologues
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1st Produced:
Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, NSW
26 Jan 2005
Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 1
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short monologue
Parts:
Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79418
Top of PageRasputin Affair, The
Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, NSW
01 Apr 2017
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/128154
Top of PageSeed, The
A compelling, tightly-woven and thrilling exploration of a very real family and the repercussions of war. Meet Rose Maloney. Her dad Danny went to Vietnam. Her grandFather Brian is ex-IRA. Today is their collective birthday. From this intimate reunion, the Seed opens itself up over and over again until a silent family battle becomes a national story about finding new life amongst the rubble of old wars. This play has a very special kind of honesty and humour to it which sorts the great lies we buy into from the reality we live through
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Winner of the 2007 Sydney theatre Awards for Best Independent Production
1st Produced:
B Sharp, Belvoir, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Sydney, Anz
21 Jul 2007
Organisations:
Mimmam Productions
1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia, 2008
Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71256
Top of PageSomewhere
Synopsis:
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written by Kate Mulvany And Tim Minchin
1st Produced:
Q Theatre, Penrith, NSW
06 Oct 2005
Organisations:
Q Theatre
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Music:
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Genre:
musical
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67800
Top of PageStory Time
Synopsis:
An imprisoned youth entertains his older cellmate with nightly stories
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, NSW
26 Aug 2003
Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29441
Top of PageVaseline Lollies
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageWeb, The
Is a person still isolated if their friends are make-believe?' Fred is a 16-year-old living on a farm without stock or crops in an Australian country town. When Travis, the charismatic head boy at their school, begins to take an interest in him, Fred gets lured into the intricate world of the Web, where nothing, and nobody, is what they seem. A whodunit for the modern age, the Web, is a fascinating exploration of isolation, friendship, and what happens when social experiments go frighteningly wrong.
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1st Produced:
The Butter Factory, Wodonga
02 Sep 2009
Organisations:
Black Swan Theatre Company and Hothouse Theatre
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
whodunit
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/82292
Top of PageWelcome to Dullsville
Synopsis:
15 of WA's hottest playwrights have been invited to take an intriguing look at what it's like to live in the most isolated capital city in the world: Perth - the city you love to hate, love to love, or both . . .
Notes:
A collaboration of writers in the Perth Theatre Company Writers' Lab.
1st Produced:
Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Northbridge, Wa
17 Nov 2005
Organisations:
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67982
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