# Daniel Keene

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Australian playwright (born 1955)

Daniel Keene Born Daniel Keene 1955 (age 70–71) Melbourne, Australia Occupation dramatist and theatre director Language English Nationality Australian Notable works Tom White

**Daniel Keene** (born 1955) is an Australian playwright whose work has been performed throughout the world.[1]

## 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.[2]

He cofounded Tide Theatre in 1979 with [Rhonda Wilson](/source/Rhonda_Wilson_(actress)).[3] He was also a co-founder, with Ariette Taylor, of the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.[4]

## Awards

With Ariette Taylor, Keene won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre ([Green Room Awards](/source/Green_Room_Awards), 1998) and the [Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts](/source/Kenneth_Myer_Medallion_for_the_Performing_Arts).[4]

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](/source/Toulouse) and the [Théâtre de la Ville](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_la_Ville) in Paris, won the Prix Pierre Jean Jacques Gaultier for best direction.[5]

Other awards include:

- 1989: [Victorian Premier's Literary Awards](/source/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](/source/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](/source/New_South_Wales_Premier's_Literary_Awards) — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for *Scissors, Paper, Rock*

- 2003: [New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards](/source/New_South_Wales_Premier's_Literary_Awards) — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for *Half and Half*

- 2004: [Film Critics Circle of Australia](/source/Film_Critics_Circle_of_Australia) — Best Original Screenplay for *Tom White*

- 2009: [New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Hour_Before_My_Brother_Dies)* (1986)

### Film scripts

- *[Silent Partner](/source/Silent_Partner_(2001_film))* (2001)[6]

- *[Tom White](/source/Tom_White_(film))* (2004)[7]

- *[Em4Jay](/source/Em4Jay)* (2006)[8]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Biography at personal website](http://danielkeene.com.au/biog.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130410002915/http://danielkeene.com.au/biog.html) 10 April 2013 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) accessed 9 July 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Auslit - Daniel Keene](http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30460?mainTabTemplate=agentDefault)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Payne_3-0)** Payne, Pamela (6 July 1990), "Life with an expiry date", *The Sydney Morning Herald*

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bp_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bp_4-1) [Black Pepper Publishing - Daniel Keene, Biography](http://blackpepperpublishing.com/keene.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [ABC Classic FM - Midday presented by Margaret Throsby](http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/02/03/3935144.htm)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [IMDB - "Silent Partner"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145467/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [IMDB - "Tom White"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360798/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [IMDB - "Em 4 Jay"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0867284/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2)

## External links

- [Daniel Keene](https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/189) at [AusStage](/source/AusStage)

- [Official website](http://danielkeene.com.au/)

- [Deprecated link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance) at [archive.today](/source/Archive.today) (archived 10 July 2013)

- [Interview at Theatre Notes](http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/kitchen-table-interview-daniel-keene.html)

- [Interview at Australian Stage](http://www.australianstage.com.au/200907292744/features/melbourne/daniel-keene.html)

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