Author

CHRIS DICKINS

Chris Dickins

Chris Dickins is a playwright, theatre director and teacher who has been working in the performing arts since 1973. He is a prolific playwright having written around 90 plays - many of which have been specially commissioned for small community companies. These works include Sunrise, Sunset; peter panman; The Men; Absent Without Leave and Foreigners From Home.

Chris has been the artistic director of Bow-Tie, Artisan, Barnstorm Theatre, Spirit Theatre Co, Polyglot Puppet Theatre, Theatre Susso and Alchemy Community Theatre. Chris' plays have been produced across Australia and Internationally; been studied for VCE Drama courses; used as teaching resources at universities and at NIDA and been nominated for the Green Room awards and several have been published.

In 1993 Chris represented Australia at the Five Writers From Five Nations ASSITEJ International Congress (the children's theatre branch of UNESCO) Frankfurt Germany where his theories on theatre were adopted into ASSITEJ archives.

Chris has also been a commissioned playwright for several universities and art centres and regularly conducts writing workshops across the country. Chris is also an established theatre director having directed many works at the Victorian Arts Centre, St. Martin's Youth Arts Centre; the Athenaeum; the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Famous Speigeltent. Chris is currently living in Fish Creek where he writes and has developed a small independent theatre company called Nautilus Theatre Project. He is about top perform in a one-act play called The Art of Fencing and is developing a self publishing initiative called This Playful Life where his plays, three novels and instrumental music albums are for sale.
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BASEL'S ISLAND by Chris Dickins
SOLITAIRE by Chris Dickins
NO MAN'S LAND by Chris Dickins
SANCTUARY by Chris Dickins
THE MEN by Chris Dickins
DON QUICK by Chris Dickins
ANCIENT ORANGE by Chris Dickins
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE by Chris Dickins
FOREIGNERS FROM HOME by Chris Dickins
WARATAH by Chris Dickins
THE MYSTERIES OF RUFUS BUMMINGS by Chris Dickins
THE MANIFEST by Chris Dickins
THE BOAT by Chris Dickins
SWANSONG by Chris Dickins
SUNRISE-SUNSET by Chris Dickins
SOLILOQUY by Chris Dickins
SHANGRI-LA by Chris Dickins
PETER PANMAN by Chris Dickins
JUDY AND PUNCH by Chris Dickins
JG, SPECS AND ANGIE by Chris Dickins
JG, SPECS AND ANGIE TOO! by Chris Dickins
CLIFFHANGER - THE GREENING OF JASPER ALLNUT by Chris Dickins
CASTAWAY by Chris Dickins
BRAINCHILD by Chris Dickins
A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL by Chris Dickins

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