JOHN LONIE – curriculum vitae See current projects in Sample Works KOKODA– feature film co-writer; Director Alister Grierson, Producers Leesa Kahn & Released 2007 Was HEAD OF SCREENWRITING at the AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL 2000-2008 Script editor JAPANESE STORY feature, director Sue Brooks, writer AlisonTilson Script editor BENEATH CLOUDS feature, writer/director Ivan Sen Script editor DOGWATCH feature, writer/director Laurie McInnes] Script editor WILD TURKEY short feature, writer/director Steve McKenzie Script editor – DUST short film, writer/director Ivan Sen Script editor – WIND short film, writer/director Ivan Sen + Ivan Sen’s short films at the AFTRS. 2001 Masterclass Lecture and Script Workshop for the Singapore Broadcasting Authority September 2001 Earlier work includes:ACTS OF LOVE - three novellas; Blackwattle Press, published 1997 'A long way from Oxford Street' - short story in anthology HIDE & SEEK, Ed. Jenny Pausacker. Random House, February 1996 'The Third Man' in FRUIT, Ed. Gary Dunne [Blackwattle Press, Sydney] 1994 LIFE'S A BEACH - four monologues for inter-connected characters about life on Bondi Beach; ABC Radio National Audio Arts 1996. 'Contact' in MEANWHILE IN ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST, anthology Ed. Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson [Crown/Random House, New York, 1994] THE INCARNATIONS OF ISABELLA - dramatised documentary ABC Radio National - Sunday night feature, 1993 1 FRANKIE'S HOUSE - tv biography of the Viet Nam War journalist Tim Page's adventures in Viet Nam, [Roadshow/East Anglia Television - 4 by one hour episodes. BBC June 1992] Co-writer Story in anthology TRAVELLING ON LOVE IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY [ed] Gary Dunne, Blackwattle Press, 1991 SPRING AWAKENING - Frank Wedekind. Translation and adapation. N.I.D.A [Second Year Production]; director Terry Clarke, 1991 A COUNTRY PRACTISE - 'in-house' story-liner and script editor 1991 THE PAPER MAN - the rise and rise of an Australian press magnate. [Roadshow/ABC/Granada - 6 x 1 hour episodes; ABC, RTE Ireland, BBC UK, CTV Canada] AFI AWARD BEST MINI-SERIES, 1991. Repeat run Decamber/January 1995/96 POLICE RESCUE [episode 8 - ABC, BBC] 'WHERE WOLVES ROAM' - short story in Outrage November 1990 GP [ABC] - various 1989/90 THE TRUE BELIEVERS - dramatisation of the Labor Party up to the 1954 split [8 x 1 hours, ABC-TV; original writers Bob Ellis & Stephen Ramsay] Brought in as script editor and uncredited writer. AFI AWARD BEST MINI-SERIES 1988 WILLISEE'S AUSTRALIANS - 13 tv biographies of famous Australians. Nine Network 1988 :- Errol Flynn - Writer - Betty Cuthbert - Script Editor LEARNING FROM LIFE - five Australian theatre-in-education plays. [Currency Press]; editor/writer 1987 EARLIER FILM/TV & THEATRE WORK LIFE AFTER DEATH - a North Shore woman's husband dies, freeing her from a staid and boring life. She flushes his ashes down the toilet. AFTRS 1984 - 23 minutes; 2 VALPARAISO - An old man leaves his money to the state railways rather than to his greedy daughters. AFTRS - 1984 - 25 minutes, Producer/Production Manager. WINNER PENGUIN AWARD, 1985 SPRING AWAKENING - Frank Wedekind, Translation and adaptation St.Martins Theatre, Melbourne; director Helmut Bakaitis. 1984 THE CUCUMBER KING - a family provides refuge for a deposed Cucumber King who turns out to be a tyrant deposed by his people. [A play for children. SCTSA, Magpie, Adelaide Festival] a stage adaptation of "Wir pfeiffen auf den Gurkenkonig" by Christine Nostlinger. 1982 THE SAW AND THE CARPENTER - a carpenter discovers he can play his saw and joins a band; a musical play for children. [The 'Come Out Festival', Adelaide] 1981 HEY MUM, I OWN A FACTORY - a group of women are sacked and run the factory themselves. [STCSA, Magpie. Devised and co-wrote] 1981 RED LIGHT SQUARE - cabaret on the 'oldest profession'; STCSA, 1981 KULLENNER - the story of the Tasmanian Tiger [a puppet play for children; Tasmanian Puppet Theatre], 1980. I'VE GOT A NAME - an Austrian refugee comes to Australia in 1939, [Salamanca Theatre Co, Hobart] 1980 UNTIL YA SAY YA LOVE ME - two teenagers, their fantasies and fears about sex. 1980 [STCSA, Magpie. Co-devised, co-wrote] STRIKE AT THE PORT - the story of a family in Port Adelaide during the 1928 wharf strike. [STCSA- Magpie. Devised and with Nick Enrigt and company, co-wrote] 1978 PUBLICATIONS [selected] "It's a Great Place to bring up Kids!" - Meanjin 1, 1984. "A History of Drug Use in Australia" - published by and for the South Australian Royal Commission into the Non-medical Use of Drugs. (Adelaide 1979.) "The Magpie Strike" - Meanjin, 3, 1978 "A Fading Bourgeois Utopia" - Meanjin, 4, 1978. 3 Member research group for Women in Australia - a documentary history Eds. K.Daniels, M. Murnane, A.Picot (AGPS, Canberra 1977) EDUCATION Matriculation, Brisbane Grammar School BA [Hons Politics & History] University of Queensland Master of Arts [Australian History] University of Adelaide AFTRS - 1984 WORK HISTORY (selected) Tutor & Lecturer, Australian History & Politics, University of Adelaide, 197072 Freelancer, radio Adelaide - ABC, 5DN 1976 Writer/Researcher-Dramaturg, State Theatre Company of South Australia, 1977-1981 Various writer-in-residencies 1981/82 Associate producer/dramaturg, St.Martins Theatre, Melbourne 1982/3 Since 1985, freelance writer 4