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WAYNE BLAIR
(1971 - )Nationality: Australian
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Wayne Blair is a Theatre, film and television actor, writer and director. Wayne's debut feature film, the SaPPHIReS, a musical comedy has its world premiere Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Wayne wrote and directed short film the DJaRN DJaRNS which won the 2005 Crystal Bear award in the Kinderfilmfest competition at the Berlin Film Festival. the film also won a Deadly award for Outstanding achievement in Film in 2005, Best Screenplay at the Flickerfest Film Festival 2006, Best Short Screenplay at the aWGIeS, Best Australian Short at the Film Critics' Circle awards and has screened on SBS and Foxtel. Wayne wrote BLOODLaND from a concept by Stephen Page and Kathy Marika for Sydney Theatre Company's 2011 main stage season. the play was directed by Bangarra's Stephen Page and performed wholly in traditional language. BLOODLaND toured to Adelaide Festival and Queensland Theatre Company in 2012. Wayne's television directing credits include LOCKIe LeONaRD Series 1 and 2 for the Nine Network, DeaD GORGeOUS for the BBC and DOUBLe TROUBLe with Caama Productions. Wayne wrote the episode 1788 of the MY PLaCe series 2 for aBC-TV, an episode for the second series of the CIRCUIT and one episode of the second series of LOCKIe LeONaRD. the CIRCUIT won an aWGIe award for Best Original miniseries in 2009. Wayne wrote the short film RaLPH which Deborah Mailman directed, which won the IF award for Best Short in 2010. earlier short film JUBULJ, which Wayne wrote and directed, won Best Film at the ImagiNaTIVe Short Film Festival in CanadA. In 2010 Wayne directed DIRTY BUTTeRFLY and co-directed NaMaTJIRa for Belvoir. Wayne directed and performed in JeSUS HOPPeD the a-TRaIN and directed Brendan Cowell's play RUBeN GUTHRIe at Belvoir while he was an associate artist there in 2009 and 2010. Wayne wrote and directed a stage adaptation of NJUNJUL the SUN for the Kooemba Djarra Theatre Company in Brisbane. In 2005 Wayne directed UNSPOKeN at the Old Fitz which toured nationally in 2006 with Performing Lines and won Best Independent Production at the Sydney Theatre awards. For Sydney Theatre Company's mainstage and education programs Wayne has directed the ReMOVaLISTS, the 7 STaGeS OF GRIeVING and ROMeO aND JULIeT. as an actor Wayne has appeared in Theatre productions including TRUe WeST at STC directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, TOT MOM directed by Steven Soderbergh, JeSUS HOPPeD the a-TRaIN with B Sharp, OtheLLO with Bell Shakespeare and STUFF HaPPeNS, the SaPPHIReS, RUN RaBBIT RUN, CONVeRSaTIONS WITH the DeaD and CLOUDSTReeT, all for Belvoir. He was also a performer in Bangarra Dance Theatre's SKIN and Melbourne Theatre Company's INHeRITaNCe. For film, Wayne has appeared in ana Kokkinos' 2009 feature film BLeSSeD, David Caesar's MULLeT and Kieran Darcy Smith's feature WISH YOU WeRe HeRe. Wayne was awarded the Bob Maza Fellowship by Screen Australia in 2011, the Richard Wherrett Fellowship by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2006 and the Andrew Myer Fellowship by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2007. He has a Bachelor of Business degree, a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in acting and attended New York University in the summer of 2002 where he studied film. Wayne is currently writing with BlackfElla Films and emmy award winner Jimmy McGovern on the second series of ReDFeRN NOW, commissioned for the aBC
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Bloodland Njunjul the Sun Singled Out SugarlandBloodland
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Wayne Blair wrote BLOODLaND from A concept by Stephen Page And Kathy Marika, performed wholly in traditional language
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Top of PageNjunjul the Sun
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Adapted from the novel by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
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''Singled Out is a brand new inter-generational, multi-playwright project developed by creative producer and new work director Augusta Supple and supported by a professional production team of some of Sydneys most respected independent performers, musicians and playwrights. Responding to the prediction that by 2020, one in three living arrangements in Sydney will be that of solo households this new show is a heartfelt and hilarious adventure in the private lives of our neighbours, friends and relatives. Offering an insight into the lives of many, 'Singled Out' is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits colliding and intersecting revealing flights of fancy, the gentle musings or the robust reflections on what it means to be living alone in a thriving dynamic city. Harnessing the creative imaginations of some of Australias leading playwrights this is a unique celebration of our city, our private moments and public confessions exploring the joy and freedom of solo living and the sometimes hidden realities of the solo living person.' (Source: http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/singled-out/ )
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written by Luke Carson ; Wayne Blair ; Grace de Morgan ; Sarah Carradine ; Vanessa Bates ; Tim Spencer ; Emma Magenta ; Alli Sebastian Wolf .
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Seymore Centre, Sydney 02 Oct 2013
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Top of PageSugarland
Sugarland provides a glimpse into a teenage Australia that feels like a foreign country. This haunting new play will make you pause, make you smile, make you wonder how much can be real. Erica's Dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years. Now she's in year eleven she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway. Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out. The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.
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written by Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair. Inspiring and award-winning, the national youth theatre company, ATYP, is excited to present, Sugarland, a brand new Australian work inspired by the young people of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
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