Simon Hopkinson Simon Hopkinson i(A25143 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1970
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Simon Hopkinson grew up in England. He acted as a child at the Mermaid Theatre, and won the Dobell Drama Award for his first play 'No Obligation', which he wrote at the age of seventeen. After working at several theatres in England and Scotland as a stage manager, Hopkinson emigrated to Victoria in 1970. There, he became production manager at the Melbourne Theatre Company. In the following year, he established the Melbourne Theatre Company Youth Theatre. He has served as a board member of several theatres, tutored in drama and been the co-artistic director of the Darwin Theatre Group.

The author and director of numerous plays (many of which are unpublished) Hopkinson has also written scripts for the television programme Bananas in Pyjamas, and numerous related children's books. Several of his children's books have been translated into other languages.

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form y separately published work icon Don't Blame the Koalas Don't Blame Me ( dir. Kevin James Dobson et. al. )agent Australia : Southern Star Entertainment , 2002-2003 7392193 2002 series - publisher film/TV children's

'In England a recently bereaved widow and her two children discover that they've inherited a property in Australia. With some reluctance they head to Australia to claim their inheritance only to discover that the profitable sheep station they've imagined is in fact a rather out of the way wildlife park full of Australian native animals. What's more it has human occupants as well - a distantly related trio of grandchildren who have been bequeathed lifelong rights to live on the property. As well, there's an Australian born Vietnamese animal handler who's somehow the only one who has real expertise in dealing with native Australian animals.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 23/5/2014)
2003 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Children's Television Drama
2003 nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards — Best International Children's
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