Eamon Flack is an Australian theatre director. He is Artistic Director of
Belvoir, a theatre company in Sydney's Surry Hills.
Flack, who grew up in
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory.
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, was encouraged towards a career in theatre by actor
Bille Brown when studying at the University of Queensland, where Brown was an adjunct professor. Flack studied acting at the
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Flack become Literary Manager and later Associate Director at Belvoir, before being appointed Artistic Director from 2016.
Two productions Flack directed for Belvoir have won
Best Play at the Helpmann Awards, ''
Angels in America'' in 2014 and ''
The Glass Menagerie'' in 2015. He was nominated for a
Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2016 for Belvoir's production of ''Ivanov''.
Flack was credited as associate writer of ''
Counting and Cracking
''Counting and Cracking'' is a play by Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan, first staged in 2019.
Synopsis
The play concerns four generations of the one Tamil family across Sri Lanka and Australia.
Productions
The play was first produced by ...
'', written by
S. Shakthidharan
''Counting and Cracking'' is a play by Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan, first staged in 2019.
Synopsis
The play concerns four generations of the one Tamil family across Sri Lanka and Australia.
Productions
The play was first produced by ...
, which won both the
Victorian Prize for Literature and the
Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama at the 2020
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
References
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Australian theatre directors
Living people
Australian LGBT people
Year of birth missing (living people)