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Reg Cribb

REG CRIBB

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    The Yellow Agency  

Reg Cribb is a NIDA graduate who has performed for stage, film and television. He is also an accomplished singer/songwriter and musician. His first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed at Sydneys Old Fitzroy in 1999. His award-winning play, the Return, premiered in Sydney at Griffin in 2001 and a subsequent production at the Adelaide Fringe Festival won the 2002 advertiser Southwark Best of Fringe award. the play was shortlisted for Best Drama Stage award at the Queensland Premiers Literary awards in 2001, and Cribb adapted it for film as Last Train to Freo. Other plays include the multi-award winning Last Cab to Darwin, and Ruby's Last Dollar both of which toured nationally; and the Chatroom which premiered in Perth.

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         Boundry Street         Chatroom, The         Damned, The         Gulpilil         Haunting Of Daniel Gartrell, The         Krakouer         Last Cab To Darwin         Night Of the Sea Monkey         Return, The         Ruby's Last Dollar         UnAustralia         Welcome to Dullsville

Boundry Street

Synopsis:
Follows the story of three African-American soldiers in Brisbane. Off duty, they head to the Dr Carver Club, a jazz club set up especially for African-American servicemen. the promise of new, exotic music and dancing attracts many Australians, including 'respectable' white and Indigenous women. Prejudices are dispelled and genuine friendships blossom, but then the simmering racism erupts violently.

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1st Produced:
State Theatre Centre Of Western Australia, Perth, Wa    04 Mar 2011

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Genre:
play with music

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96298

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Chatroom, The

Chatroom, The
the Chatroom details a 15-year old girls online experiences and explores the impact of our changing world on the relationships we have and the way we connect with each other.

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Perth, Australia    16 Oct 2004

Organisations:
Perth Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  female voiceover

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Damned, The

Synopsis:
Narelle and Louise are teenagers from regional Wa. they take drugs, move in together, pledge sisterhood and stop going to school. Louise meets eliza and brings her home like a lost pup. they band together, destroy stuff and have a whale of a time. Cracks appear in the crack haze, however, and the sisters gang up on the outsider. their crime is violent and vicious and confounding. Based on a real story, the Damned is chilling, unflinching and very stark Drama indeed.

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1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia    17 Mar 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Gulpilil

Gulpilil
Gulpilil is a one man show about the life of, and starring, indigenous performer, David Gulpilil. Reg spent three weeks living with David Gulpilil in Central arnhem Land preparing for the show.

Notes:
written by Reg Cribb And David Gulpilil

1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide    01 Mar 2004

Organisations:
Adelaide Festival and Company B Belvoir

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Haunting Of Daniel Gartrell, The

Haunting Of Daniel Gartrell, The
the Haunting of Daniel Gartrell - 'In the tradition of Australian gothic classics like Wake in Fright. . . comes a comedic thriller where edgar allen-Poe meets Banjo Paterson.' Australian Stage Online

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1st Produced:
Subiaco Arts Centre, Perth, Australia    01 Nov 2008

Organisations:
Perth Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Krakouer

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Last Cab To Darwin

Synopsis:
the story follows cab driver Max Bell's journey up the "guts of the country" which starts in his home town of Broken Hill and goes all the way to Darwin. Max is travelling there in the hope of being the first person to take advantage of world-first euthanasia laws in the Northern Territory. His journey takes the audience on a meandering trip through the interior of Australia and introduces some of it's many and varied inhabitants while chronicling the life of one very courageous battler in his dying days.

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Genre:
2 act 165 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Night Of the Sea Monkey

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy, Sydney    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Return, The

Return, The
Late on a stifling hot night, the close confines of a suburban Perth train become a claustrophobic and bitter psychological battleground. Steve and Trev are two social misfits who have never had 'a fair go'. When Lisa, a beautiful young woman, gets on the train the two thugs vie for her attention, through various boisterous antics, which while comical are still somehow disturbing. the journey rides the uneasy line between comedy and terror as the two thugs turn on the handful of commuters. the pressure cooker situation threatens to explode as they near their Fremantle destination, but by the journey's end the line between aggressor and victim has become blurred. Just who is terrorizing whom? a web of intrigue and power which will keep audiences guessing all the way.

Notes:
adapted for film As "Last Train to Freo"

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Organisations:
Griffin Theatre company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 2003   978-0868196923

Music:
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Genre:
50 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ruby's Last Dollar

Ruby's Last Dollar
Ruby's Last Dollar is the story of a survivor, a woman who would risk everything to ensure a better life for her granddaughter, but who has only one thing left to gamble with - her precious, lucky coin.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House, Australia    21 Jun 2005

Organisations:
Pork Chop Productions

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  actors can play multiple roles in this play

Further Reference:
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UnAustralia

Synopsis:
UnAustralia tells the story of ali, a devout Muslim teenager who loves to surf. an aberration in his own Lakemba community and family, he moves to Crulla Beach to be near the surfing culture he loves so much. ali watches in dismay as an altercation between his volatile, conflicted younger brother Fadi and two lifeguards erupts into an ugly racial battle on the beachfront one Sunday - a battle that sucks his friends and younger sister Nadia into its vortex and forces ali to take sides and re-examine who he really is.

Notes:
Based on events At Cronulla Beach And A day in history that forced Australia to look deep into its dark, intolerant heart, UnAustralia was first produced As A graduation play by third year Acting students At West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WaaPa) in 2007.

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Genre:
absurdist social Drama / comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Welcome 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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