Daniel Keene

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'''Daniel Keene''' (born 1955) is an Australian playwright whose work has been performed throughout the world.<ref>[http://danielkeene.com.au/biog.html Biography at personal website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410002915/http://danielkeene.com.au/biog.html |date=10 April 2013 }} accessed 9 July 2013</ref>

== Career == Keene's plays have been performed in Australia, France, Poland and the United States. Many of his plays have been published in French translation.<ref>[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30460?mainTabTemplate=agentDefault Auslit - Daniel Keene]</ref>

He cofounded Tide Theatre in 1979 with [[Rhonda Wilson (actress)|Rhonda Wilson]].<ref name="Payne">{{Citation | last= Payne | first= Pamela | title= Life with an expiry date | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 6 July 1990}}</ref> He was also a co-founder, with Ariette Taylor, of the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.<ref name=bp/>

==Awards== With Ariette Taylor, Keene won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre ([[Green Room Awards]], 1998) and the [[Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts]].<ref name=bp>[http://blackpepperpublishing.com/keene.html Black Pepper Publishing - Daniel Keene, Biography]</ref>

He is the winner of a number of drama awards in Australia, and the 2002 production of his play ''Terminus'', directed by Laurent Laffargue at the TNT in [[Toulouse]] and the [[Théâtre de la Ville]] in Paris, won the Prix Pierre Jean Jacques Gaultier for best direction.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/02/03/3935144.htm ABC Classic FM - Midday presented by Margaret Throsby]</ref>

Other awards include:

* 1989: [[Victorian Premier's Literary Awards]] — Louis Esson Prize for Drama for ''Silent Partner'' * 1996: Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play for ''Beneath Heaven'' * 1996: Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for ''Because You are Mine'' * 1998: [[Victorian Premier's Literary Awards]] — Louis Esson Prize for Drama for ''Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day: Five Plays'' * 2000: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]] — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for ''Scissors, Paper, Rock'' * 2003: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]] — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for ''Half and Half'' * 2004: [[Film Critics Circle of Australia]] — Best Original Screenplay for ''Tom White'' * 2009: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]] — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for ''The Serpent's Teeth: Two Plays'' * 2011: [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards]] — Best Drama Script (Stage) for ''Life Without Me''

==Selected works== ===Drama=== * ''All Souls'' (1993) * ''Une heure avant la mort de mon frere'' (1995) * ''Little City'' (1996) * ''Silence Complice / Terminus'' (1999) * ''To Whom It May Concern: And Other Plays'' (2000) * ''Avis aux Interesses'' (2000) * ''Pieces Courtes'' (2001) * ''Half and Half'' (2002) * ''La Marche de l'Architecte / Les Paroles'' (2002) * ''Cinq Hommes / Moitie-Moitie'' (2003) * ''Terminus and Other Plays'' (2003) * ''Paradise: Codes Inconnus 1'' (2004) * ''The Nightwatchman'' (2005) * ''The Serpent's Teeth: 2 Plays'' (2008) * ''The Cove: 8 Short Works'' (2009) eight short plays presented by If Theatre and directed by [[Matt Scholten]]. Plays included Cafe Table, Somewhere in the Middle of the Night, To Whom It May Concern, A Glass of Twilight, The Morning After, A Death, Two Shanks and The First Train. * ''Life Without Me'' (2010) * ''Boxman'' (2011) * ''Photographs of A'' * ''The Long Way Home'' (2014) * ''Mother'' (2015)

=== Television scripts === * ''[[The Hour Before My Brother Dies]]'' (1986)

=== Film scripts === * ''[[Silent Partner (2001 film)|Silent Partner]]'' (2001)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145467/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4 IMDB - "Silent Partner"]</ref> * ''[[Tom White (film)|Tom White]]'' (2004)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360798/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3 IMDB - "Tom White"]</ref> * ''[[Em4Jay]]'' (2006)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0867284/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2 IMDB - "Em 4 Jay"]</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{AusStage|contributor/189}} *{{Official website|http://danielkeene.com.au/}} *{{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130710024408/http://www.ozscript.org/playwright3956.html |title=Daniel Keene at Australian Script Centre |date=dmy}} *[http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/kitchen-table-interview-daniel-keene.html Interview at Theatre Notes] *[http://www.australianstage.com.au/200907292744/features/melbourne/daniel-keene.html Interview at Australian Stage]

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