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Timothy Daly (playwright)

Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright, dramaturg, and teacher, whose plays have won awards and been produced around the world since 1982.

For the actor, see Tim Daly.

Timothy Daly

Australian

Kafka Dances

Early life and education[edit]

Daly graduated from UWS Theatre Nepean in 1992.[1]

Career[edit]

Daly is a playwright, dramaturg, and teacher. Many of his plays have been produced both in Australia and internationally[2] since 1982.[3]


His 2008 play Derrida in Love, was written for Jacki Weaver, which she performed in a sold-out season at the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.[4]


Daly's play Kafka Dances[2] has won a dozen national and international awards since its premiere and is one of the most frequently internationally performed Australian plays.


His play Richard III (or almost) premiered at the 2011 Festival d'Avignon and followed with a Paris season in October–November 2012. Daly's play, The Man in the Attic, was awarded the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for best new play.[5] It has been staged in Paris, at the 2013 Festival d'Avignon.

The Man in the Attic – Winner of the for Best New Play

Patrick White Award

Kafka Dances – Winner of a Sydney Theatre Critics' award for Best New Australian Play; Finalist for both the and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award; Winner of 5 South African Vita (now known as the Naledi Theatre Awards)

New South Wales Premier's Literary Award

Outlanders – Winner of Award

Australian Writers Guild AWGIE

The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner – Winner of ; finalist in the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for drama

Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play

Three Australian Council for the Arts Literary Awards

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The Don's Last Innings (; Launceston Theatre Company; Riverina Theatre Company; State Theatre Company of South Australia)

Sydney Theatre Company

Derrida in Love ()

Ensemble Theatre

Kafka Dances (; Sydney Theatre Company; La Boite Theatre Company; Cherry Tree Theatre; Market Theatre; Zenith Theatre; High-Doh Theatre; Axis Theater; State Theatre Company of South Australia; Cyrano's Theater Company; Star Théâtre; Theatre des Opprimés; Théâtre de Chevilly-Larue; Comédie De l'Est; Saint-Cyr-l'École; Saint-Maur-des-Fossés; Festival de Cornouaille; Festival d'Avignon and toured to Strasbourg; Valenciennes; Nîmes and Draveil)

Griffin Theatre Company

The Man in the Attic (Star Théâtre; ; Théatre l'Avant Seine; Théatre Bois de l'Épée)

Festival d'Avignon

Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia (, graduation production commission)

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The Quiz King ()

New Theatre

The Critic Assassinated (; Mummers Theatre)

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The Moonwalkers (; Street Theatre Company)

Griffin Theatre Company

Complicity (Marian Street Theatre)

[2]

The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner (Griffin Theatre Company; Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide)

[2]

Livingstone (Marian Street Theatre; Ice House Theater; Effie Crump Theatre; Riverina Theatre Company; Brisbane Arts Theatre; Pymble Players and toured regionally to Kalgoorlie)

[2]

. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

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