{{Short description|Australian playwright}} {{About||the actor|Tim Daly}} {{refimprove blp|date=April 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Timothy Daly | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = Australian | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notable_works = ''Kafka Dances'' | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc.; or omit --> }} '''Timothy Daly''' is an Australian playwright, [[dramaturg]], and teacher, whose plays have won awards and been produced around the world since 1982.
==Early life and education== Daly graduated from UWS [[Theatre Nepean]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite book | last=Daly | first=T. | title=Richard III (or almost) | publisher=Lulu.com | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-291-38867-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhIZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 | access-date=2 April 2023 | page=131}}</ref>
==Career== Daly is a playwright, dramaturg, and teacher. Many of his plays have been produced both in Australia and internationally<ref name=ap2015/> since 1982.<ref>{{cite web | title=Timothy Daly | website=AusStage | date=26 August 2022 | url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/227447 | access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref>
His 2008 play ''Derrida in Love'', was written for [[Jacki Weaver]], which she performed in a sold-out season{{cn|date=April 2023}} at the [[Ensemble Theatre]], Sydney.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/70786|title=Derrida in Love| website=[[AusStage]]}}</ref>
Daly's play ''Kafka Dances''<ref name=ap2015>{{cite web | title=Timothy Daly | website=AustralianPlays.org | date=13 April 2015 | url=https://australianplays.org/playwright/CP-dalbee | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117025636/https://australianplays.org/playwright/CP-dalbee | archive-date=17 January 2021 | url-status=dead | access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> has won a dozen national and international awards since its premiere and is one of the most frequently internationally performed Australian plays.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
His play ''Richard III (or almost)'' premiered at the 2011 [[Festival d'Avignon]] and followed with a Paris season in October–November 2012. Daly's play, ''The Man in the Attic'', was awarded the [[Patrick White Playwrights' Award]] for best new play.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/information-for-artists/patrick-white-playwrights-award-and-fellowship|title=Sydney Theatre Company - Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship|work=Sydney Theatre Company}}</ref> It has been staged in Paris, at the 2013 Festival d'Avignon.
==Recognition== === Awards === * ''The Man in the Attic'' – Winner of the [[Patrick White Award]] for Best New Play * ''Kafka Dances'' – Winner of a Sydney Theatre Critics' award for Best New Australian Play<ref>{{Cite news |last=Austlit |title=Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v367 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240310024341/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v367 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |access-date=2026-05-27 |language=en}}</ref>; Finalist for both the [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Award]] and the [[Victorian Premier's Literary Award]]; Winner of 5 South African ''Vita'' (now known as the [[Naledi Theatre Awards]]) * ''Outlanders'' – Winner of [[AWGIE Awards|Australian Writers Guild AWGIE]] Award * ''The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner'' – Winner of [[AWGIE Award for Stage|Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play]]; finalist in the [[Victorian Premier's Literary Awards|Victorian Premiers Literary Award]] for drama * Three Australian Council for the Arts Literary Awards<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grant-decisions/reports/literature2/literature-assessment-meeting-report-july-2012 |title=Literature Assessment Meeting Report July 2012 |access-date=2014-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517203122/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grant-decisions/reports/literature2/literature-assessment-meeting-report-july-2012 |archive-date=2013-05-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Residencies and fellowships === * Keesing Studio Residency Award (Paris) from the [[Australia Council for the Arts]], 2013.<ref name=ac2013>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/workspace/uploads/files/news/australia_council_annual_report_2012-13.pdf|title=Australia Council Annual Report 2012-13|journal=Annual Report |publisher=Australia Council for the Arts|year=2013|pages=11|issn=0725-7643}}</ref> * Friends of the National Library Creative Arts Fellowship from the [[National Library of Australia]], 2017,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/fellowships-and-scholarships/creative-arts-fellowships/fellows|title=Creative Arts Fellows|website=National Library of Australia|access-date=10 October 2017}}</ref> to progress a script for psychological thriller, ''Perfume''.
==Selected works== === Theatre === * ''The Don's Last Innings'' ([[Sydney Theatre Company]]; Launceston Theatre Company; [[Riverina Theatre Company]]; [[State Theatre Company of South Australia]]) * ''Derrida in Love'' ([[Ensemble Theatre]]) * ''Kafka Dances'' ([[Griffin Theatre Company]]; [[Sydney Theatre Company]]; [[La Boite Theatre Company]]; Cherry Tree Theatre; Market Theatre; Zenith Theatre; High-Doh Theatre; Axis Theater; [[State Theatre Company of South Australia]]; Cyrano's Theater Company; Star Théâtre; Theatre des Opprimés; Théâtre de Chevilly-Larue; Comédie De l'Est; [[Saint-Cyr-l'École]]; [[Saint-Maur-des-Fossés]]; [[Festival de Cornouaille]]; [[Festival d'Avignon]] and toured to Strasbourg; Valenciennes; Nîmes and Draveil) * ''The Man in the Attic'' (Star Théâtre; [[Festival d'Avignon]]; Théatre l'Avant Seine; Théatre Bois de l'Épée) * ''Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia'' ([[National Institute of Dramatic Art]], graduation production commission) * ''The Quiz King'' ([[New Theatre (Newtown)|New Theatre]]) * ''The Critic Assassinated'' ([[National Institute of Dramatic Art]]; Mummers Theatre) * ''The Moonwalkers'' ([[Griffin Theatre Company]]; Street Theatre Company) * ''Complicity''<ref name=ap2015/> (Marian Street Theatre) * ''The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner''<ref name=ap2015/> ([[Griffin Theatre Company]]; [[Bakehouse Theatre]], [[Adelaide]]) * ''Livingstone''<ref name=ap2015/> (Marian Street Theatre; Ice House Theater; Effie Crump Theatre; [[Riverina Theatre Company]]; [[Brisbane Arts Theatre]]; Pymble Players and toured regionally to [[Kalgoorlie]])
=== Television, translations and adaptations === * ''Song For Two in the Night'' ({{ill|Theodor Weißenborn|de}}) * ''The Double Bass'' ([[Patrick Süskind]]) [[Ensemble Theatre]] * ''Liebelei (Flirtations)'' ([[Arthur Schnitzler]]) [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] * ''Interior'' ([[Maurice Maeterlinck]]) Australian Broadcasting Corporation * ''Hours of the Dying'' ([[Hans Johst]]) Australian Broadcasting Corporation * ''[[Neighbours]]'' (various episodes, [[Grundy Television|Grundy Corporation]]) * ''A Lapse in Behaviour'' (Australian Broadcasting Corporation; [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]; [[South African Broadcasting Corporation]]; [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]]; [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]])
=== Opera librettos === *''How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints'' (based on the novel by [[Kathy Lette]]; music by [[Alan John]]; produced by [[Victorian Opera]]) in 2011<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 Jan 2014 |title=How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C758491 |access-date=2026-05-27 |website=AustLit}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{Cite web |url=http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/resources/reports_and_publications/subjects/marketing/timothy_daly_-_playwright |title=Timothy Daly - Playwright |access-date=2014-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412170959/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/resources/reports_and_publications/subjects/marketing/timothy_daly_-_playwright |archive-date=2011-04-12 |url-status=dead }}
==External links== * [https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/227447 Timothy Daly] on [[AusStage]]
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