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Skye Loneragan

SKYE LONERAGAN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Rosica Colin Ltd  

Skye is a critically-acclaimed writer/performer/ theatre director and Sydney Poetry Prize winner (2012). Her first of five solo shows, Cracked, won an Edinburgh Fringe First, toured internationally and was adapted for ABC Radio National. Her solo shows include: Unsex Me Here, My Right Thumb, The Line We Draw, and Plucked of Purpose - the Adventures of P.B. She was originally a founding member of Sydney's Ricochet Working Productions, (Theatre Nepean grad), and has performed with companies here and abroad (such as Vanishing Point). Skye was Playwright in Residence with Visible Fictions Theatre Co. Her play for young people, Mish Gorecki Goes Missing, was shortlisted for 3 UK awards. Her writing/directing credits include: Staying Awake For You (read at Griffin Theatre Syd) and The Umbrella & the Billow (read at The Traverse, Edin & TRS Syd). She is an Arches Theatre Young Directors Award recipient (UK), Big Brother Movement Drama Award winner (Sydney), recipient of New Writers Awards and the Scottish Federation of Theatre's Unplugged bursary to research the intersection of new writing and installation art in an Indian context. Her practice includes public engagement strategies which hinge on the arousal of curiosity, such as Q-POETICS (Sydney Writers Festival 2012 and at Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2014) and Making A Map of My Mistakes(ongoing - initially installed at New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow). [photo: Stewart Ennis]

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/406366

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         Consultation, The         Cracked         Don't Stare Too Much         Joy Of the Worm         Line We Draw, The         Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere, A         Mish Gorecki Goes Missing         My Right Thumb         Plucked of Purpose - the Adventures of P.B.         Staying Awake For You         Talking-Stick Confession, A         Ten Tits Five Women On Love, Life And the Power Of Elastic         Umbrella & the Billow, The         Unsex Me Here

Consultation, The

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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, NSW    15 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Best Of The Rest Week 1

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79513

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Cracked

Synopsis:
Hope has lost her father. Trouble is, he's still alive. . . and thinks he wrote the Bible. everyday Roger Brimming swims out to sea - but not back - and everyday Hope picks him up in a boat. everyday but one. alone with him and confronted by an until an uninvited visitor, Hope is folded into a choice she didn't see coming.

Notes:
the Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First winner, 2001. (also Adapted for radio)

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RSaMD

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65171

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Don't Stare Too Much

Synopsis:
a most physical and mimed satire on the search for true love, and if that is not available, the accommodation of meaningless sex.

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1st Produced:
Darlinghurst Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    Oct 2004

Organisations:
pell mell Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65171

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Joy Of the Worm

Synopsis:
a subterranean world with second-hand sunshine and breadcrumbs. an absurd look at coping mechanisms.

Notes:
a collaborative project, with Pauline Goldsmith, And the Arches theatre Company, (Tam Dean Burn And Julie Duncanson).

1st Produced:
Scotland in Sweden, Stockholm    2002

Organisations:
the arches Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  ensemble

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Line We Draw, The

Synopsis:
a verse monologue about the uneasy borderline between adult stories and children's stories
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
part of New Works New WorldsSeason of new pieces

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Organisations:
New Works New Worlds

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Music:
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Genre:
30Mins Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93753

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Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere, A

Synopsis:
Inspired by antoine Saint exupery's the Little Prince, this is a tale about four grounded aviators, in recovery. Struggling to be understood, yearning to fly again, finding themselves in a queue for job centre, remembering their little lost friend and departed lover. an absurd look at this modern world, inspired by life lessons within the book.

Notes:
the Arches Young Directors Awards.

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Organisations:
Quirk İreative and the arches Theatre.

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  5 actors

Further Reference:
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Mish Gorecki Goes Missing

Synopsis:
Meet Mish. She's 9, ballet-obsessed and the Little Rock in her family. Shes just been made The Replacement on the Bolshoi Ballet excursion and shes on route to Russia. All she needs is her Permission Note signed and her List of Must Haves looked at... only thats not so easy in her family when everyone is having trouble dealing with their own lives. A comic, slightly surreal and touching tale about a young girl who goes missing to be noticed.

Notes:
finalist in the King's Cross Award for New Writing 2009

1st Produced:
Mitchell Library, Glasgow    17 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Glasgow University and Lapidus

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
Physical theatre - family audiences 60 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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My Right Thumb

Synopsis:
a hypochondriac whose right thumb will not stop twitching is sneaking cigarettes past reception at a Relaxapark, and feeding her anxieties.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Plucked of Purpose - the Adventures of P.B.

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Staying Awake For You

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1st Produced:
read at Griffin Theatre Sydney    -

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Talking-Stick Confession, A

Talking-Stick Confession, A
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Notes:
part of "I Confess" A series of monologues. these monologues reflect A growing interest in the theme of confession And the subject of other people's lives in contemporary Drama And television, including the so-called reality' shows which Abound in today's programme schedules. In A live context the experience of direct one to one contact can be Alarming And exhilarating by turns. Funny, moving, disturbing And challenging, these monologues will be of interest to Actors in search of An Audition piece As well As directors on the lookout for A new And highly flexible way of making theatre.
- Hugh Hodgart, Head of Acting RSaMD

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Genre:
short Monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ten Tits Five Women On Love, Life And the Power Of Elastic

Synopsis:
Five brassy, bold, not to mention beautiful women deliver a series of bits and bobs, sketches, tit-bits, monologues and skits on love, relationships and all the life in between! Comic, quirky, off-beat and poignant... The unique comic talents of the crew that brought you ricochet R rated, End of the Line and Hooked for the Big Laugh Comedy Festival, will have you rolling in the aisle!

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Organisations:
Ricochet Working Productions, Greenroom Productions and Quirk İreative.

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Music:
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Genre:
Sketches

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65323

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Umbrella & the Billow, The

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1st Produced:
read at Traverse, Edinburgh    -

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Unsex Me Here

Synopsis:
Inspired by why someone like Lady Macbeth would feel the need to cry, unsex me here, to get what she wants. . . this piece looks at what the Raised Calf might have to do with getting somewhere. It's about someone who is running late, or trying to run, about her whose hair has let her down, a missed pumpkin, ambition and a lifelong desire to know what the role to play in this tale. a one-woman shoe

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Quirk İreative and the arches Theatre.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  10            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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