Reg Cribb
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Reginald Cribb is an Australian playwright and actor.
Early life
Cribb graduated from NIDA in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.[citation needed]
Plays
Cribb's plays include:
- The Return (adapted to the film Last Train to Freo)[1]
- Last Cab to Darwin[2]
- Gulpilil[3]
- The Chatroom[4]
- Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of Uncle Vanya[5]
- Unaustralia[6]
- Mt Ragged,
- Night of the Sea Monkey
- Krakouer
- Country Song, a play about Australian indigenous singer and musician Jimmy Little performed by the Queensland Theatre Company at the Cremorne Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (August 2015) [7]
Acting Career
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Cribb appeared in the film A Country Life.[citation needed]
He appeared in Home and Away during the 1990s,[citation needed] with appearances in G.P., A Country Practice and Police Rescue.[citation needed] He also sang the song "Banana Holiday" on the ABC children's TV series Bananas in Pyjamas with Monica Trapaga as well as the main cast of the show.[citation needed]
Stage history includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,[citation needed] Hester,[citation needed] The Players,[citation needed] Face to Face,[citation needed] Romeo and Juliet[citation needed] and The Turning.[citation needed]
Awards
- Last Cab to Darwin – 2003 Qld Premier's Literary Award,[3] 2003 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award,[3] 2003 WA Premier’s Award for Best Script, overall 2003 WA Premier's Award (the first to win this award),[3] 2003 WA Equity Award for Best New Script. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2003 Australian Writers’ Guild Award.
- The Return – 2001 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award[3] and shortlisted for the 2001 Qld Premier’s Literary Award.
- The Chatroom – shortlisted for the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, the 2005 Qld Premier’s Literary Award and the 2005 WA Premier’s Literary Award.
- Gulpilil – shortlisted for the 2001 Australian Writers’ Guild Award.
- Ruby's Last Dollar – shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the WA Equity Awards.
- Screenplay for Last Train to Freo – 2006 WA Premier's Award. Nominated for the 2006 Qld Premier's Literary Award and Victorian Premier's Literary Award, as well as a 2006 AWGIE and Best Adapted Screenplay in the 2006 AFI Awards and Critics Circle Awards.[3]
- Country Song it won the 2013 Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award for New Work.[7]
In 2015, Cribb was the Professional in Residence at the Perth's Film & Television Institute.[8]
References
- ^ Sims, Jeremy (14 September 2006), Last Train to Freo, retrieved 24 January 2016
- ^ "LAST CAB TO DARWIN". AustralianPlays.org. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "Reg Cribb". AustralianPlays.org. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ Cribb, Reg (2004), The chatroom, HLA Management, retrieved 24 January 2016
- ^ Austlit. "Ruby's Last Dollar". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ Marais, Karen (29 January 2008). "A look at our intolerant heart" (PDF). Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Country Song". Queensland Theatre Company. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Award-winning writer Reg Cribb is FTI's next Professional in Residence". ScreenWest. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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