Reg Cribb

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Name Reg Cribb Role Playwright		Books Tales Tall and True

Education National Institute of Dramatic Art Plays Last Cab to Darwin, The Return Awards AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Movies Last Train to Freo, Last Cab to Darwin, Bran Nue Dae, Grange Similar Jeremy Sims, Jimmy Chi, Rachel Perkins, Tom Budge, Robyn Kershaw

Thomas murray and the upside down river interview with playwright reg cribb

Reginald Cribb is an Australian playwright and actor.

National Play Festival 2011: The Damned by Reg Cribb

Early life

Cribb graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art at the University of New South Wales in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.

Plays

Cribb's plays include:

The Return (adapted to the film Last Train to Freo)

Last Cab to Darwin

Gulpilil

The Chatroom

Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of Uncle Vanya

Unaustralia

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)

With Rachel Perkins, Cribb co-wrote the screenplay for the movie Bran Nue Dae based on the 1989 stage musical Bran Nue Dae written by Jimmy Chi.

Acting career

Cribb appeared in the film A Country Life.

He appeared in Home and Away during the 1990s, with appearances in G.P., A Country Practice and Police Rescue. 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.

Stage history includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hester, The Players, Face to Face, Romeo and Juliet and The Turning.

Awards

Last Cab to Darwin – 2003 Qld Premier's Literary Award, 2003 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, 2003 WA Premier’s Award for Best Script, overall 2003 WA Premier's Award (the first to win this award), 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 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.

Country Song it won the 2013 Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award for New Work.

In 2015, Cribb was the Professional in Residence at the Perth's Film & Television Institute.

References

Reg Cribb Wikipedia

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