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Richard James Allen

RICHARD JAMES ALLEN  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Australian born poet Richard James allen has combined a unique international career as a writer, performer, choreographer and filmmaker. His poetry, plays, performance texts and films have been published, broadcast, performed and screened in over twenty countries over the last twenty-five years. He is the only person in Australia to have been shortlisted for or won prestigious prizes in poetry, filmmaking, screenwriting, playwriting, and dance. Richard' seventh book, Thursday's Fictions (Five Island Press), was launched at the 1999 Australian Poetry Festival, which he directed, and was shortlisted for the 2000 NSW Premier's Literary award. a recent feature film screenplay was shortlisted for the 2004 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights award. a theatrical monologue, More Lies, presented by the 2000 Sydney Writers Festival, was shortlisted for the 2001 Griffin award for New Australian Playwriting. In 1999 he co-edited with Karen Pearlman the landmark collection, Performing the Unnameable: an anthology of Australian Performance Texts (Currency Press/RealTime). Richard's first novel, The Kamikaze Mind, will be published by Brandl & Schlesinger in June 2006. Richard has been a judge of numerous Sydney performance poetry competitions including the Poetry Olympiad and the NSW Writers Centre Poetry Sprint. He is the former President and artistic Director of the Poets Union and Co-artistic Director of the Tasmanian Poetry and Dance Festival during his period as Co-artistic Director of Tasdance. Richard has completed a number of poetry-based films for his company, The Physical TV Company, which have been shown at more than 150 festivals and screenings around the world, broadcast on television in Australia, Europe and China, and won numerous awards. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Chancellor's award for the most outstanding PhD thesis from across all departments of the University of Technology, Sydney, for his Doctorate of Creative arts, Out of the Labyrinth of the Mind: Manifesting a Spiritual art Beyond Dualism. at its world premiere at the Park City Film Music Festival in Utah in January 2006, his latest work, a screen adaptation of his last book, the NSW Premiere's Literary award-nominated Thursday's Fictions, won the Gold Medal for Excellence - Director's Choice for artistic Excellence in a Feature Film.
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 Alphabet X 2     America     Armistice     Blue Cities     Bridge     Charlie Stories, The     Grand Illusion Joe     High Tension And Passion (Hoogspanning En Hartstocht)     Hope And Luck     Hotels     If War Were A Dance     International Bestseller: Over Ten Million Copies Sold     Laughing Movie, The     Luck     More Lies     More Sex     New Life On The 2Nd Floor     On Archaeology: A Discourse On Theatre     Plan Ahead     Rehearsals For Heaven     Relic, The     Rubberman's Dictionary     Sam In A Pram     Sunday At The Abortion Station     Think Too Much     Thursday's Fictions     What To Name Your Baby     White

Alphabet X 2

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America

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Armistice

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Blue Cities

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a murderer meets an angel on the border of heaven in this `dance play' which combines a full play script with a full collaborative choreographic production.

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a That Was Fast Production commissioned by Colloquium Contemporary Dance Company, NYC, And premiered At the Cunningham Studio, 1992. Full production premiered At Sidetrack Theatre, Sydney, in 1993. A Tasdance Production with expanded six performer cast premiered At The Earl Arts Centre, Launceston, Tasmania in 1995.

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Cunningham Studio    1992

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Dance Play

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Bridge

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-    1993

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Charlie Stories, The

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The Charlie Stories chronicles the life of an individual who searches out sensation through immersion in the lower depths - an existential examination of the fragility of civilization.
Suzanne Carbonneau Levy, The Washington Post

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a That Was Fast Production commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art

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Equitable Center, New York City.    1989

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Grand Illusion Joe

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a murderous character happens back to the house of his author. Only one of them is going to get out alive

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off off Broadway, NYC    1991

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Downtown art Co

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3 act Play/Drama

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High Tension And Passion (Hoogspanning En Hartstocht)

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an enormous production set in and around a moving train over 40 km, with a time travel script, seven or eight stops and 200 participating performers and technicians.

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a KISS International Theatre Research Group/De Voorziening Co-Production

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Groningen, Holland    1984

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Hope And Luck

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Hotels

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-    1988

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If War Were A Dance

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a woman who returns for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of the Coral Sea is visited by the spirit of her former lover, a fighter pilot lost at sea

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a Dance North Commission for A Dance North And Tropic Line Theatre Company Production. Commissioned to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea off Northern Queensland.

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Townsville Civic Theatre, Townsville, Queensland    1992

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Genre:
Dance Play

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International Bestseller: Over Ten Million Copies Sold

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-    1987

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Laughing Movie, The

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Luck

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-    1990

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More Lies

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a shapeshifting monologue

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Shortlisted for the 2001 Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting

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-    2000

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Sydney Writers Festival presentation

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Monologue Play/Drama

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More Sex

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New Life On The 2Nd Floor

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The Frightening Of Angels; 13 Acts Of Unfulfilled Love; The Hope Machine

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-    1996

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On Archaeology: A Discourse On Theatre

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Performance Space, Sydney    1987

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Entr'acte Theatre Production

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Plan Ahead

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-    1990

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Rehearsals For Heaven

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Relic, The

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-    2000

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Rubberman's Dictionary

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-    2002

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Sam In A Pram

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Sunday At The Abortion Station

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about a woman who takes over a radio station in a terrorist style attack

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and Also played At interval during the production of THURSDaY'S FICTIONS in 1995

1st Produced:
City Park Radio, Launceston    1995

Organisations:
Tasdance/aBC Radio 7NT

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Genre:
Radio Play

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Think Too Much

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Thursday's Fictions

Synopsis:
a hybrid arts production of an epic poetic script which involved collaborations with five other primary artists, direction of six dancers and one actor (Michael Edgar, formerly a member of Laurence Olivier's company), and overseeing of work by approximately 30 other artistic contributors to the project.

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the national 2007 Enhance TV ATOM Award in the category "Best Experimental".

1st Produced:
-    1995

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Tasdance Production

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Genre:
Dance Play

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What To Name Your Baby

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-    1994

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Paper Bark in association with Tasdance (1995)   978-0646237473

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Genre:
Verse play

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White

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-    1986

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