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SHANNON MURDOCH
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Shannon Murdoch holds a first class honours degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Griffith University and was a graduate of The Playwrights Studio at NIDA in 2005. Her play Everything in Between has had twelve productions in the USA and Australia and is published by Smith & Kraus in The Best Plays of 2007. The Lovely was a finalist in The Creative Mechanics Theatre Company's International Play Competition and was produced in New York, and subsequently published. Dreams in Deepest Sleep was the runner-up in the Dogwood Playwrights Initiative Play Award. The Swirl of Madness was the inaugural production of Chapel Off Chapel's Emerging Playwright's Forum. One Cloud was produced by Theatreworks as part of their mainstage season. Stupid, and Terrible was produced in the Inspirato Festival in Toronto, Canada this June. Shannon was an Australian delegate to the International Youth Playwrights Festival (Interplay) and has received writing fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, Bundanon in New South Wales and Hothouse Theatre in Victoria.
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Act Accordingly Everything in Between Good World Ignorance New Light Shine One Cloud Pow, Pow, Pow Stupid, and TerribleAct Accordingly
Synopsis:
Alicia has never had much luck in the dating game. This Valentine's Day looks no different until a visit from a very annoyed Cupid.
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1st Produced:
Paw Paw, Michigan Feb 2010
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Paw Paw Village Players
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One Act
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Moving from an airport waiting lounge to the dark jungle of Africa, Layla and Franklin examine their relationship and the choices they have made.
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1st Produced:
North Park Theatre, San Diego 2006
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GB Productions
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in 2007: The Best Ten-Minute Plays For 2 Actors, Smith & KrAus; Lawrence Harbison edition (July 15, 2008) 978-1-57525-589-7
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Top of PageGood World
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Leila a good Christian woman lives in a good Christian town full of good Christian people. She is appalled when the town council give permission for a mosque to be built. She determines to fight for her values and turns her house into battle headquarters . She even wear battle fatigues. Her sister, Frances, arrives. Frances is a war correspondent and is immediately seen as an enemy and confined to another part of the house. Stephen, the new next door neighbour keeps popping in at odd moments. He is an ex-Catholic priest who has discovered literature and wants to share each new book he reads.
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Drama
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Top of PageIgnorance
Synopsis:
At a job interview, Annabelle pushes her prospective employer, Mr. West into an examination of work, life and the chasing of abstract dreams.
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2007 Impact Winter One Act Festival
1st Produced:
Impact Theater, NY 2007
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Top of PageNew Light Shine
Joe is in gaol for murder. He stabbed the town mayor in the eye. Anna starts her social work career by returning to her hometown, with citified boyfriend Oscar, to help Joe and his family. Anna works for community services and realises she should have come home earlier to save what is an almost intractable, maddening tangle of injustice, violence, doomed small-town love and children facing institutionalisation.
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1st Produced:
45 min segment @ Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia 16 Mar 2011
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1st Published:
Yale University Press 2012 978-0300184853
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Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageOne Cloud
Synopsis:
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies an idyllic island nicknamed Paradise, where Stella Harper lands with the hope of a new beginning. But the citizens of Paradise have other ideas, determined to strip Stella to the bone and reveal her as the one cloud to ruin their perfect day.
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1st Produced:
Theatreworks, Melbourne. Nov 2008
Organisations:
Lady Muck Productions
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Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 6 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Jacob got mugged on the way home. Polly has bought a pair of red boxing gloves. Love, life and the choices we make will be examined as Jacob and Polly try to find a way through the aftermath of a random violent attack.
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1st Produced:
Texas -
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Sundown Theatre Collective
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Top of PageStupid, and Terrible
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In a small house, a wake is taking place to mourn the death of a young soldier. No one knows what to say, so no one is saying anything. From the centre of this silence, his wife, his mother and his wife's friend speak their thoughts, telling the story of their relationships to this man, and what has now been taken from them all.
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1st Produced:
InspiraTO Theatre, Toronto, Canada 04 Jun 2010
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InspiraTO Theatre
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