Katherine Thomson (Australian writer)

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Katherine Thomson is an Australian playwright and screenwriter.

Katherine Thomson was born in Manly, New South Wales and began her theatrical involvement as a teenager with the Australian Theatre for Young People. She helped found Theatre South in Wollongong and acted in many of their productions.

Her first work was A Change in the Weather, which was followed by Tonight We Anchor in Twofold Bay. Both works were performed in Wollongong in the early 1980s, while the latter was also staged at the Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Studio. Her next play, A Sporting Chance, was commissioned by the Magpie Theatre Company in South Australia in 1987. It was succeeded by Darlinghurst Nights, developed from the light verse of the noted Australian poet Kenneth Slessor and it was presented, along with musical accompaniment, by the Sydney Theatre Company in 1988.

In 1991,

.

Barmaids was first performed by the

Noni Hazelhurst

in the central role.

In 2007, King Tide was premiered by Griffin Theatre Company, in a production directed by Patrick Nolan, starring Toni Scanlan.^[1]

Thomson has written for a number of television series, including

AWGIE Award for an episode of GP and an AFI

nomination for an episode of Halifax f.p. She has also served as a member of the board of the Sydney Theatre Company for a number of years.

References

1. ^ "Immersed in sorrow as the world closes in". The Australian. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2010.

External links

• Katherine Thomson at
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