Melvyn Morrow
Melvyn Morrow’s first scripts were performed by Gordon Chater and Jill Perryman at the Phillip Theatre, the Downstairs Revue and in The Mavis Bramston Show. His musicals (book & lyrics) include: Morality! (Edinburgh Festival, London Fringe, off-off-Broadway and Sydney - retitled Between Earth and Sky); Postcards From Provence, (starring Opera Australia baritone, John Pringle - Zenith Theatre and ABC Radio); Vroom Vroom (Theatre South); Mad Louisa Lawson (Stables); Offenbach In The Underworld and When It Happens (Café Basilica); and seven Christmas at The Opera House pantomimes including the nationally popular Santa Meets The Bushrangers.
Melvyn’s TV credits include Sons and Daughters, The Mike Walsh Show, Star Search and many ABC/Opera Australia simulcasts including the Tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. His musical A Song To Sing, O, the story of Gilbert and Sullivan and George Grossmith, was produced by Dame Bridget D’Oyly Carte at London’s Savoy Theatre and directed by the author. Australian productions have starred Anthony Warlow, Dennis Olsen and Christopher Hamilton. Over the years, Melvyn has updated book and lyrics for Opera Australia’s The Gondoliers (four productions) and The Mikado, and for Simon Gallaher’s Gilbert and Sullivan trilogy, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore.
With David Mitchell, Melvyn wrote the musicals Peter Dawson - Off The Record (Adelaide Festival 1988) and Jack O’Hagan’s Here Comes Showtime (Marian St) and the lyrics for the song 'Lest I Forget' (Rebel) recorded by Debra Byrne and Judi Connelli. With Justin Fleming, Melvyn wrote Something Out Of Heaven (retitled her holiness), a play about Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint. His plays include Beating A Retreat (Stables 1995) and A Touch Of Paradise (Downstairs Belvoir St 2000). He devised and directed the cabarets Broadway Bard (Bell Shakespeare Company, Café Basilica, Teatro Vivaldi) Tae Kwon Shakespeare (festivals Australia wide) and High School Romeo which won the 2006 AWGIE for Music Theatre. In 1996, Melvyn was nominated for a Mo Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Musical Theatre. He is the co-writer of the national hits, SHOUT! The Legend of the Wild One and Dusty – The Original Pop Diva.
Melvyn’s most recent works include the life story of the larger than life Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s principal librettist. Starring international Australian bass, Damian Whiteley, Mozart and ME has toured Australia and New Zealand. Melvyn’s scurrilous rewrite of The Mikado is called The BIG MAKado or Three Little Maids from Schoolies.
Melvyn’s TV credits include Sons and Daughters, The Mike Walsh Show, Star Search and many ABC/Opera Australia simulcasts including the Tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. His musical A Song To Sing, O, the story of Gilbert and Sullivan and George Grossmith, was produced by Dame Bridget D’Oyly Carte at London’s Savoy Theatre and directed by the author. Australian productions have starred Anthony Warlow, Dennis Olsen and Christopher Hamilton. Over the years, Melvyn has updated book and lyrics for Opera Australia’s The Gondoliers (four productions) and The Mikado, and for Simon Gallaher’s Gilbert and Sullivan trilogy, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore.
With David Mitchell, Melvyn wrote the musicals Peter Dawson - Off The Record (Adelaide Festival 1988) and Jack O’Hagan’s Here Comes Showtime (Marian St) and the lyrics for the song 'Lest I Forget' (Rebel) recorded by Debra Byrne and Judi Connelli. With Justin Fleming, Melvyn wrote Something Out Of Heaven (retitled her holiness), a play about Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint. His plays include Beating A Retreat (Stables 1995) and A Touch Of Paradise (Downstairs Belvoir St 2000). He devised and directed the cabarets Broadway Bard (Bell Shakespeare Company, Café Basilica, Teatro Vivaldi) Tae Kwon Shakespeare (festivals Australia wide) and High School Romeo which won the 2006 AWGIE for Music Theatre. In 1996, Melvyn was nominated for a Mo Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Musical Theatre. He is the co-writer of the national hits, SHOUT! The Legend of the Wild One and Dusty – The Original Pop Diva.
Melvyn’s most recent works include the life story of the larger than life Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s principal librettist. Starring international Australian bass, Damian Whiteley, Mozart and ME has toured Australia and New Zealand. Melvyn’s scurrilous rewrite of The Mikado is called The BIG MAKado or Three Little Maids from Schoolies.
Justin Fleming
JUSTIN FLEMING has been a
Vice-President of The Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of The
Australian National Playwrights' Centre. His works have been produced and
published in Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Poland and France.
Justin's plays include Hammer (Ensemble/Festival of Sydney); The Cobra (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company/Wilton Morley Productions, starring Sir Robert Helpmann and Mark Lee), Harold In Italy (Sydney Theatre Company / Teatr Studijni, Lodz, Poland); Burnt Piano (Belvoir Company B Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company/HB Playwrights Foundation Theater New York, Mainstage Hobart/Dallas Theater Centre/France Australia Theatre, Paris/Centaur Theatre, Montréal/Ensemble Theatre Sydney), Coup d’Etat (Western Canada Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company), Kangaroo (Square Brackets Theatre), Junction (NIDA) and Tartuffe ( MTC). Burnt Piano was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award and won the New York New Dramatists’ Exchange Award. Coup D’Etat won the Banff PlayRites Residency, Canada, made the final short-list for the Patrick White Award and was nominated for an AWGIE award for Best Play. Burnt Piano was selected as the inaugural play for the Australia/Canada exchange between Melbourne Theatre Company and the Centaur Theatre, Montréal. The Department Store won the inaugural Mitch Mathews Award at Parnassus' Den Theatre Company.
Burnt Piano and Coup d’Etat have been translated by Jean-Pierre Richard and published in France and Belgium by Lansman Editeur.
Screenplays include The Shedding (Columbia Tristar), Lord Devil (Anthony Buckley Films) and Nellie (The Melba Foundation).
As librettist, Justin collaborated on Ripper (with Thos Hodgson/Ensemble Theatre), Accidental Miracles (WAAPA/Sydney Theatre Company), The Ninth Wonder (Sydney Theatre Company), the English Tour and London season of Crystal Balls (Compact Opera/Sadler's Wells) and TESS of the D'Urbervilles, (Savoy Theatre, London/UK tour). Justin was also librettist on Wayne Harrison’s production of Satango, with Stewart D'Arrietta (Griffin Theatre Co/Riverside Theatres).
Justin has degrees in law from Sydney and Dublin, and a Master of Laws degree from University College London. His history of the common law, Barbarism to Verdict, was published by HarperCollins, with a foreword by John Mortimer. Other publications include The Crest of the Wave (Allen&Unwin), The Vision Splendid and All That Brothers Should Be (Beaver Press), Burnt Piano & Other Plays (Five Islands Press), Hammer (Stockwell), The Cobra (STC Playtext/Five Islands Press), and Coup d'Etat & Other Plays (Xlibris). For ABC Television and Anthony Buckley Films, Justin wrote Part One of the history of cinema, The Celluloid Heroes and was the inaugural Dr. Anne Clark Writer-in-Residence at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, taking classes in Creative Writing. He has twice been awarded the Nancy Keesing Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where he wrote The Starry Messenger. His Paris journal was published by Halstead Press in Paris Studio.
In 2006 and 2009, Justin was Writer in Residence at the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation, La Casa Zia Lina, Elba, Italy, where he translated Moliere's Tartuffe (The Hypocrite), for Melbourne Theatre Company, and wrote A Land Beyond the River for Storylines Cultural Festival 2009. In 2007, Justin was awarded the Writer's Residency at Arthur Boyd's Bundanon, where he wrote Origin, performed at The Art of Evolution Conference 2009, Courtauld Institute, London, directed by Wayne Harrison. Justin was awarded the Tasmanian Writers' Centre Residency in 2008, where he wrote His Mother's Voice.
Justin's plays include Hammer (Ensemble/Festival of Sydney); The Cobra (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company/Wilton Morley Productions, starring Sir Robert Helpmann and Mark Lee), Harold In Italy (Sydney Theatre Company / Teatr Studijni, Lodz, Poland); Burnt Piano (Belvoir Company B Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company/HB Playwrights Foundation Theater New York, Mainstage Hobart/Dallas Theater Centre/France Australia Theatre, Paris/Centaur Theatre, Montréal/Ensemble Theatre Sydney), Coup d’Etat (Western Canada Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company), Kangaroo (Square Brackets Theatre), Junction (NIDA) and Tartuffe ( MTC). Burnt Piano was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award and won the New York New Dramatists’ Exchange Award. Coup D’Etat won the Banff PlayRites Residency, Canada, made the final short-list for the Patrick White Award and was nominated for an AWGIE award for Best Play. Burnt Piano was selected as the inaugural play for the Australia/Canada exchange between Melbourne Theatre Company and the Centaur Theatre, Montréal. The Department Store won the inaugural Mitch Mathews Award at Parnassus' Den Theatre Company.
Burnt Piano and Coup d’Etat have been translated by Jean-Pierre Richard and published in France and Belgium by Lansman Editeur.
Screenplays include The Shedding (Columbia Tristar), Lord Devil (Anthony Buckley Films) and Nellie (The Melba Foundation).
As librettist, Justin collaborated on Ripper (with Thos Hodgson/Ensemble Theatre), Accidental Miracles (WAAPA/Sydney Theatre Company), The Ninth Wonder (Sydney Theatre Company), the English Tour and London season of Crystal Balls (Compact Opera/Sadler's Wells) and TESS of the D'Urbervilles, (Savoy Theatre, London/UK tour). Justin was also librettist on Wayne Harrison’s production of Satango, with Stewart D'Arrietta (Griffin Theatre Co/Riverside Theatres).
Justin has degrees in law from Sydney and Dublin, and a Master of Laws degree from University College London. His history of the common law, Barbarism to Verdict, was published by HarperCollins, with a foreword by John Mortimer. Other publications include The Crest of the Wave (Allen&Unwin), The Vision Splendid and All That Brothers Should Be (Beaver Press), Burnt Piano & Other Plays (Five Islands Press), Hammer (Stockwell), The Cobra (STC Playtext/Five Islands Press), and Coup d'Etat & Other Plays (Xlibris). For ABC Television and Anthony Buckley Films, Justin wrote Part One of the history of cinema, The Celluloid Heroes and was the inaugural Dr. Anne Clark Writer-in-Residence at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, taking classes in Creative Writing. He has twice been awarded the Nancy Keesing Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where he wrote The Starry Messenger. His Paris journal was published by Halstead Press in Paris Studio.
In 2006 and 2009, Justin was Writer in Residence at the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation, La Casa Zia Lina, Elba, Italy, where he translated Moliere's Tartuffe (The Hypocrite), for Melbourne Theatre Company, and wrote A Land Beyond the River for Storylines Cultural Festival 2009. In 2007, Justin was awarded the Writer's Residency at Arthur Boyd's Bundanon, where he wrote Origin, performed at The Art of Evolution Conference 2009, Courtauld Institute, London, directed by Wayne Harrison. Justin was awarded the Tasmanian Writers' Centre Residency in 2008, where he wrote His Mother's Voice.