Author

BILL PEARSON

Bill Pearson

Bill Pearson graduated from NIDA and worked as an actor and writer in Australia and England. He was invited to Africa to play Sky in the musical Guys and Dolls. He has also worked for the Old Tote Theatre, Nimrod, and the Tasmanian Theatre Company in Australia, and The West End, Birmingham, Plymouth, Worthing and Derby Reps in England. His writing includes the one man shows The Gulargumbone Lectures, An Evening With Walter Plinge and A Little Part of Inside (produced in England and Australia), Christian and Miller (produced in England) and the first Tasmanian rock musical, Glen, which was performed in Hobart. He was the first writer in residence for the Tasmanian Theatre-in-Education program and spent many years writing music for ABC educational radio.

His one man show An Evening With Walter Plinge has been staged in London, Sydney, at the Adelaide comedy festival and in Hobart.

Bill has written music and scripts for ABC radio and he is a member of the Tasmanian Playwrights' Project where 2 of his play have had readings.

CONVERSATION WITH A GEISHA by Bill Pearson
WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY by Bill Pearson
LAST TANK FROM TIANANMEN by Bill Pearson
COMPARING MY LIFE TO A BOOK by Bill Pearson
AN EVENING WITH WALTER PLINGE by Bill Pearson

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