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JOHN MISTO
(1952 - )Nationality: Australian
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency
John Misto is an award-winning writer for television and stage. His plays have been produced throughout Australia and internationally, and include HARP ON THE WILLOW, THE SHOE-HORN SONATA (published by Currency Press), GOSSAMER and SKY. His many television credits include HEROES' MOUNTAIN THE RESCUE OF STUART DIVER, which won the Gold Plaque Award for Best Feature Length Telefilm Drama at the 2002 Chicago International Film Festival, was the first Australian telemovie ever to be purchased by the US Cable Network, Showtime, and was the most critically acclaimed and award-winning Movie for Television produced by Sony Television International. John's awards include the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award for HARP ON THE WILLOW and the 1996 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Best Play, for THE SHOE-HORN SONATA, which also won the 1995 Australia Remembers' National Play Competition. John's television scripts have won a number of AFI and AWGIE awards.
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Gossamer Harp On the Willow Madame Rubinstein Shoe-Horn Sonata, The SkyGossamer
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A story of intrigue, magic and humour based on actual events. What happens when Houdini discovers a magic trick he cannot perform? When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle encounters a mystery that baffles even Sherlock Holmes? these two legendary men join forces to unravel the greatest riddle of the 20th Century. their rivals? Two young girls. Did Frances and Elsie really photograph fairies, or was theirs just the world's most elaborate hoax? As Houdini and Conan Doyle search for answers, they are ensnared in the puzzle they are trying to solve - a secret as deadly as Baskerville Hound and as fine as a gossamer web. Two famous men. Two young girls. A mystery that stretches from Australia to Buckingham Palace. This is a story guaranteed to astonish and amaze you. And this one is true!
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Mary O'Hara was a star at 18, and a widow at 20. At the height of her fame she disappeared abruptly causing her family and fans to believe that she had died. Instead she had entered an enclosed order of nuns and was living in anonymity, without music and contact with the outside world. But when a derelict begins to visit the convent, he turns her life upside down.
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Based on A true story, some singing in the play.
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Top of PageMadame Rubinstein
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Power battles between Helena Rubenstein, Eve Arden and Revlon
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Park Theatre Café Bar, London
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Top of PageShoe-Horn Sonata, The
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond'
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Currency plays Sydney : Currency Press, 1996
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Top of PageSky
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A young pilot vanishes in mysterious circumstances on a clear and cloudless summer night. In the minutes before he disappears, he describes a mysterious flying craft pursuing him in the skies. Was he really taken by a UFO? Or did he fake his own disappearance? Or was there a much more sinister conspiracy involved? the pilot's father, Rocco Bettoni, begins to search for the reason behind his son's disappearance and embarks on an astounding journey of his own. Sky is the true story of one of Australia's greatest unsolved mysteries
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