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Jessica Bellamy

JESSICA BELLAMY

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Jessica Bellamy is a Sydney-based playwright and a Griffin Playwriting Australia associate Playwright for 2011-12. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic art in Playwriting (NIDA) and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (UNSW). In 2011 she premiered Sprout at the Old Fitzroy Theatre (winner of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights award, 2011), which will tour to Melbourne in 2012. In 2011 she was commissioned to write a Fourth of Nature (a play for 18 young performers) for the ACT Department of education's School Spectacular, wrote and performed Celebrity Healing for Canberra's You are Here Festival and Griffin Theatre's Griffringe, had a monologue included in atyp's Tell It Like It Isn't (currently being adapted into a short film, Bat eyes, slated for a February 201 2 release) and had an excerpt of endless Light and endless Sound shown at the PWa National Play Festival. Jessica has tutored playwriting for 'Workshops in the Arts for People with a Disability' through Riverside Theatres, and for atyp. Other work includes Fast Kill and Bill (Griffin Theatre Playoffs, 2009/10), and short screenplay Hirsute (Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2010), as well as collaborating on a writer-led Griffringe project, a Very Crappy Christmas. Her writing has been staged in Brand Spanking New (New Theatre, 2008/09) and Hot Shorts (Byron Bay Theatre, 2009).

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         Bill         Celebrity Healing         Compass         Fast Kill         Fight Or Flight         Fourth Of Nature, A         Grief Parlour, The         Little Love         Lovely Ugly         LoveNOT         Shabbat Dinner         Sprout         Very Crappy Christmas, A         View from Moving Windows, A

Bill

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Griffin Theatre Playoff    2010

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Celebrity Healing

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You are HERE Festival, Canberra    -

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Compass

Compass
The teacher is missing, there isn't enough food, it's getting dark and no one mentioned that the toilets out here are nothing but holes in the ground. For a small group of students, it seems their grade seven camp couldn't get much worse, that is until a stranger appears. Compass is a comedy with a sting in its tail, which asks how far we'll go to hold on to what we think we deserve. If we are barely managing to take care of ourselves, how do we treat an outsider? Is our moral compass set in stone, or can we get lost?

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short comedy

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Fast Kill

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Griffin Theatre Playoff    2009

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Fight Or Flight

Fight Or Flight
Triptych  A Trilogy of New Works explores the world of pressure and success. From our youngest moments to our dying day we all encounter pressure in our lives. Pressure to survive, to be strong, to win, to make the right decisions, to forge the right path, to be successful  but what does being successful even mean? With mental health becoming an increasingly prominent issue for young people, Canberra Youth Theatre has teamed up with three of contemporary theatres most dynamic writers to explore these questions in ecclectic ways.

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Triptych  A Trilogy of New Works was commissioned by Canberra Youth Theatre with the support of ActewAGL and ACT Health.

1st Produced:
C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Canberra    31 Oct 2013

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Canberra Youth Theatre

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short play

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Fourth Of Nature, A

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ACT Department Of education School Spectacular    -

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Grief Parlour, The

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Little Love

Little Love
a short, sharp, evocative collection of monologues written by some of Australias leading young and established playwrights. each piece is crafted for an actor aged between 16 and 20. Subtle, uplifting, poetic and funny, these pieces are as exciting and diverse as the young actors that perform them.

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Part of the Voices Project

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short monologue

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Lovely Ugly

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LoveNOT

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Sipat Lawin Ensemble, Manila    -

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Shabbat Dinner

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Sprout

Sprout
Sprout is a play set in an Australia of the future, where everything has dried up, run out, or fled. In this world, human beings live in skeleton cities, or out in the wild, with only the barest of necessities for survival. One thing unites these fragmented souls: a self-appointed prophet on the radio, the Weatherman, who shares classic poetry with his listeners - his way of making their fear and desolation more bearable, through the beauty of language. And in this world full of endings, four people start new beginnings. Curiosity, romance and new life continue to sprout. Sprout suggests the inevitability of love and growth in environments that seem completely inhospitable; that no matter how hopeless things might seem, there is always growth and renewal within the cycles of the earth and our own bodies.

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part of Brave New Word A presentation of six new plays in two programs by NIDA's graduating playwrights

1st Produced:
Parade Playhouse, Sydney    25 Aug 2010

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Drama, Fantasy

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Very Crappy Christmas, A

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as collaborater

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Griffin Theatre Playoff    -

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View from Moving Windows, A

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Harnessing the creative talents of some of Sydneys most dynamic and prestigious playwrights, A View From Moving Windows is inspired by train travel to and from the thriving and vibrant geographical centre of Sydney, Parramatta. Specifically written for True West, each the nine short plays promises to be revealing and highly entertaining. Directed by Augusta Supple, one of Sydneys most passionate promoters of new theatre, this is a theatre event that mines the sublime in the every day to present Sydneys west as youve never seen it before.

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written by Donna Abela, Vanessa Bates, Jessica Bellamy, John Fraser, Noelle Janaczewska, Nicholas Parsons, Teik Kim Pok, Angela Quinn and Alison Rooke

1st Produced:
Rafferty's Theatre, Parramatta, NSW    18 Oct 2012

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True West Theatre

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