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Michael Griffith
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Michael Gray Griffith is a 39 year old writer who lives with his wife and two children in Melbourne, Australia. He has a working class background and has been supporting his family in jobs such as driving trucks and cleaning and most recently as a postie, while writing stories and plays when he makes the time. Several of his plays have been performed at La Mama, a small theatre venue in Melbourne that specialises in new works and writers (Decoupage Skin September 2002, Three Short Plays: Three Men, The Truck and Suicide Row, August 2003) as well as North Melbourne Town Hall, Chapel off Chapel (Melbourne) and Newtown Theatre Sydney. Three Short Plays: Three Men, The Truck and Suicide Row toured in the UK after being performed at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Michael’s short stories for adults have won awards, been published, read on radio, developed into stage plays and purchased for film rights. At present he is working on an original novel and other fiction for children.
Adult Short Stories
Krafthaus Films Ltd is commencing principal photography in New Zealand on a short film based on Michael's short story The Graffiti of Mr Kynyatta. Producer Vicky Pope; screenwriter, Paul Ward; and Director of Photography, Ginny Loanne are thrilled to be bringing this special story to life with the actor Rawiri, the grandfather "Koro" in Whalerider, as Mr Kynyatta. The Graffiti of Mr Kynyatta won the My Brother Jack Award 2000, received a commendation at the Greater Dandenong Literary Awards and was read on Radio National on 4th May 2003 (reader, Stephen Phillips and producer, Justine Lees). It was published in Meanjin and in the West Australian Newspaper in 2000.
The Boat won the Glen Eira Literary Award 2003 and was published in the 2003 Glen Eira Literary Awards Anthology.
Bus Girl was Third in the Booroondara Awards 2002. Morris Lurie, judge, said: "Michael's characters can steal open the chambers of the flintiest hearts." It was published in the Anthology, It's About Time, by the City of Boroondara.
The Truck was Short-listed in the 2004 Glen Eira literary awards and developed into a twenty minute play which was produced once in Sydney's Newtown Theatre, three times in Melbourne and toured the UK after being staged at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Three Men was published in Pelt Literary Magazine and developed into a short play that has been produced n Sydney, with an all male cast and in Melbourne with an all female cast.
A reading of Suburban Showdown was recorded at the Radio NAG Studios on the Capricorn Coast and sent by CD-R audio disc to the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia in Sydney. It was broadcast on Community Radio stations across Australia on May 8th 2004 (including “Words and Music” program, Radio NAG, Capricorn Coast, Queensland).
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