Mary Rachel Brown Mary Rachel Brown i(A72631 works by) (a.k.a. Rachel Brown; Mary Brown)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Mary Rachel Brown is the recipient of the 2006 Griffin Award and the 2006 Max Afford Award for her play Australian Gothic. Her current work Permission to Spin was read at the hotINK International play reading festival in New York in 2009. Christine Dunstan Productions will tour Inside Out (Winner of the 2008 Rodney Seaborn Award) in 2009. Other works to be staged in 2009 include Peachy for Merrigong Theatre Co and Last Letters for The Australian War Memorial.

Mary's other produced works include National Security and the Art of Taxidermy - the Glynn Nicholas Group and B#; All My Sleep and Waking - Elbow Theatre and La Mama; Clown Empire/Red Nose Rising - Jigsaw Theatre Company; A Street Car Named Datsun 120Y - ABC TV, B# and Elbow Theatre and Die Fledermaus (adaptation) Sydney Conservatorium of music.

(Source: Australian Script Centre, http://www.ozscript.org/)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 inaugural winner Suzie Miller Award
2023 shortlisted Silver Gull Play Award with Jamie Oxenbould for Chicken In A Biscuit
2016 winner The Lysicrates Prize for Approximate Balance

Awards for Works

These Are Not My People 2018 single work drama

'On the eighth of April at five seventeen pm, an incident of racial abuse occurs on a bus. Mobile phone footage of the abuse is uploaded on to social media at five thirty pm, by six o’clock the incident goes viral. The hunger for blame above resolution dominates the debate.

'The perpetrator, the victim, the bystander and the person filming are thrown into a media storm.

'Their actions and inactions judged.
Their privacy gone.
Their family harassed.
Their perception of the truth challenged.
Their ethics commodified.
Their safety threatened.

'Behind the eight-seconds of footage exists four personal lives that are forever altered. These Are Not My People questions the fine line between revenge and justice when it comes to social media shaming.'

Source: australianplays.org

2019 nominated AWGIE Awards Stage Award Community and Youth Theatre
Inside Out 2009 single work drama

'What do you do when a loved one changes beyond recognition? When the rational world is taken away from you? A journey into one young man's mind, to the place where borders are shifting and battle lines are drawn. This play looks at our very selfhood and how we survive when it is taken away.'

Source: Australian Script Centre website, http://www.ozscript.org/
Sighted: 19/05/2009

2008 winner Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award
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