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Mark O'Flynn began writing for the theatre after graduating from the VCA. He has had seven plays professionally produced, including Eleanor & Eve, and Paterson's Curse, published by Currency Press in 1988. As a playwright he has worked for numerous community theatre companies including The Mill Theatre Company, MRPG, Riverina Theatre Company, as well as the Victorian Arts Council T.I.E wing. He was writer-in-residence at Deakin University in 1985 and 1987. He has also published a novella, Captain Cook, and two books of poetry, The Too Bright Sun, and The Good Oil. He has had several short stories read on radio 5UV, and has read his own work on ABC regional radio, 2BL, and Radio National. In 2001 he was a founding member of Weatherboard Theatre Company which received funding to write Eleanor & Eve from the NSW Ministry for the Arts, a portion of which was published in Hecate, 2002. This play was also produced at Railway Street Theatre Company in November, 2003. A new novel Grassdogs will be published by Harper/Collins in June 2006. |