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Declan Greene

DECLAN GREENE

  (1985 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  

Declan Greene is a writer and Theatre-maker based in Melbourne. His plays include a Black Joy and Moth, and have been produced at Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House, and the Storeroom. His awards include the Malcolm Robertson Prize (2010), the R.e. Ross Trust Playwright's Development awards (2007 and 2009), and the Green Room award for Best Original Writing (2010). His commissions include Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse, HotHouse, and Arena Theatre. alongside ash Flanders, Declan runs D.I.Y. 'trash-Theatre' group Sisters Grimm, and has co-devised and directed work including Mommie & the Minister and Cellblock Booty, touring locally and internationally.

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         Black Joy, A         Bog         Bumtown         Cellblock Booty         Eight Gigabytes Of Hard-Core Pornography         Fat Camp         Five Kinds Of Common Swine         Home Economics, Part III         J.A.T.O.         Laugh Out Loud         Little Mercy         Meant To Be Spoken         Mommie & the Minister         Moth         Pompeii, L.A.         Pretty Baby         Rageboy         Summertime in the Garden of Eden

Black Joy, A

Synopsis:
This play was a R.e.Ross Trust Award winner in 2007 and a huge hit at a rehearsed reading here last year. Black comedy is an overused term, but it absolutely applies to A Black Joy. An outstanding cast of 7 bring us this first production of a work by a remarkable young writer.

Notes:
awards: R. e. Ross Trust Playwrights Script Development Award, 2007: joint winner

1st Produced:
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC    23 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/82261

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Bog

Synopsis:
Dolores returns home after a twenty year absence and is greeted with hostility from her friends and family including her friend the gay teacher.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bumtown

Synopsis:
An epic trash musical devised by two trash-talkling homos on a kamikaze mission to take out Australian theatre

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Rose Turtle; book by Ash Flanders; Declan Greene

1st Produced:
Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia    01 Nov 2007

Organisations:
Sisters Grimm

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/73403

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Cellblock Booty

Synopsis:
Murder, drugs, and attempted escapes and a lesbian matron into bondage all in a women's prison

Notes:
devised by Ash Flanders and Declan Greene. Written by Roger Corman

1st Produced:
Collingwood Underground Arts PArk, Collingwood, VIC    Apr 2008

Organisations:
Sisters Grimm

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79684

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Eight Gigabytes Of Hard-Core Pornography

Eight Gigabytes Of Hard-Core Pornography
A guy stuck in a rut. No matter how much porn he downloads, it's just not enough. A woman in trouble. No matter how much debt she's in, she just can't stop buying stuff. When you need escape, no-strings sex via OKCupid.com might be a very good idea. But it might not. A dark comedy about love, lust and hard drives.

Notes:
winner of 2012 Max Afford Playwrights' Award

1st Produced:
performed reading by MKA Theatre at MKA Pop-Up Theatre, 73 Nicholson St., Abbotsford, Victoria    13 Nov 2011

Organisations:
MKA: Theatre of New Writing - Open Season 2011, day fifteen

1st Published:
Currency Press 2014   978-1925005127

Music:
-

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Genre:
dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fat Camp

Synopsis:
Camp Jolly where fat girls go to get slim. the orphan, the goth, the prostitute, the wannabe singer and the Manga girl.

Notes:
Written with Ash Flanders

1st Produced:
-    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
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-

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Five Kinds Of Common Swine

Synopsis:
Five cruel and unprovoked assaults on Melbourne's earnest-but-tragic urban youth. Meet Toorak princesses-cum-Flinders Lane hairdressers Ash and Georgette; soak up the precious indie-folk stylings of 'minimal slowcore lo-fi crossover emo' pioneers Mote; and grimace as 'Promising Young Writer-Slash-Director' Leslie Grogan presents her stunning new work of fringe theatre, 'Frida & Sylvia, or the ecstasy of Being'.

Notes:
Written by Declan Greene And Kirsten Law

1st Produced:
Gasworks Arts PArk, Albert PArk, VIC    30 Mar 2005

Organisations:
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/99265

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Home Economics, Part III

Home Economics, Part III
a series of five vignettes balanced on the axis of sex and food. This delicious series of character studies are ruthless, biting and critical but also extremely human and touching, revealing the author's genuine fondness for his characters.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gasworks Arts PArk, Albert PArk, VIC    22 Jan 2008

Organisations:
Pink Shorts

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
vignettes Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling required

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80013

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J.A.T.O.

Synopsis:
there's time before the concert begins, fix your hair, fix your make up, wish for a glass of alcohol, wine would be best, white would be best, to contrast with your best slutty black dress, because if you do something well in life, it's colours and combing them, and if there's somethign you don't do well, that's everything else. That's everything else. a band of terrorists/freedom fighters have disguised themselves. they've got: One drum. One piano. One Violin. Two Trumpets. One French horn. One trombone. One cornet. Two samplers. and a shotgun type Marocchi model 03. they left the saxophone in Budapest but they're about to go on so I suggest you give them your complete and undivided attention. they really go off. Semi-automatic streams of consciousness. Razor-wire sharp dialogue. You sons of bitches! You fucking shits! they would've said that. That's what they probably would've said. But they didn't. the massacre didn't really happen. But, somehow, we all hoped something would happen. anything. It happens in J.a.T.O.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vedrana Klepica with Dramaturge Declan Greene

1st Produced:
MKa Theatre of New Writing    14 Jul 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/92418

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Laugh Out Loud

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Little Mercy

Synopsis:
"Little Mercy. evil just turned eight ... Roger and Virginia Summers have it all. He, a successful theatre director. She, a successful drunken housewife. But their charmed lives are empty - they long for a child. Careful what you wish for.'

Notes:
written by Ash Flanders And Declan Greene

1st Produced:
Collingwood Underground Arts Park    17 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Sisters Grimm

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Meant To Be Spoken

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Some of Melbourne's most exciting playwrights present their own work in a Sunday afternoon celebration of new Australian playwriting. Featuring: Adam Cass, Patricia Cornelius, David Mence, Declan Green, Tee O'Neill, Hannie Rayson and Amelia Roper, hosted by Robert Reid.

1st Produced:
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC    21 Feb 2010

Organisations:
2010 Searchlight Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90312

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Mommie & the Minister

Synopsis:
Mommie has kept the twins Harriet and edmund locked in the cellar for twenty years. Mommie entertains the Minister to tea but it then turns out he does not exist and edmund decides it is time to get out of the cellar. A funny camp and filth soaked celebration of B-grade trash melo-Drama.

Notes:
written by Ash Flanders And Declan Greene

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC    10 May 2007

Organisations:
Sisters Grimm production, presented by Three to a Room

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min absurdist

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71708

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Moth

Moth
explores themes of friendship, bullying, mental illness, and the hierarchy of the schoolyard. Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year-old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination and an obsession with anime and death. His only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the social ladder. What starts as just another night drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian unconscious, their friendship left in ruin.

Notes:
2009 VIC Premier's Literary Award - Louis esson Prize for Drama (shortlist)

1st Produced:
the CUB Malthouse, Melbourne    13 May 2010

Organisations:
arena Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91370

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Pompeii, L.A.

Synopsis:
Los Angeles is burning and it is being watched and enjoyed by a former child star - now a damaged adult who had started the conflagration

Notes:
extract from the play read at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 27 July, 2010

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Melbourne    41259

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Pretty Baby

Synopsis:
Pretty Baby is a surreal high-speed mash-up of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, the 'body horror' of David Cronenberg, and silver-screen Monster movies, satirising contemporary constructions of femininity and incising into 'the female grotesque'.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
reading at Lawler Studio, Southbank, VIC    13 Nov 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89993

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Rageboy

Synopsis:
aged nine Toby Milk contracted polio. He is now seventeen and living in fear of his abusive Neo-Nazi father. then the Talent Twins knock on his door and things are changed forever.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Union House Theatre, Melbourne University, Melbourne    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76146

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Summertime in the Garden of Eden

Synopsis:
"the South will fall, and so will her pride... ...In the greatest love story ever told." Georgia. 1861. A faded Southern belle returns to the family plantation after ten years away from home. But where has she been? Why did she run? And what secrets are buried in the ol' greenhouse? A sweeping romance, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War.' Source: www.sistersgrimm.com.au/

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
the garage of 10 Hobson Street, Thornbury, Victoria    22 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Sisters Grimm

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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