Reginald Cribb is an Australian playwright and actor.

Early life

Cribb graduated from

National Institute of Dramatic Art The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cat ...

at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.

Plays

Cribb's plays include: * The Return (adapted to the film

Last Train to Freo ''Last Train to Freo'' is a 2006 Australian film based on Reg Cribb's 2001 play '' The Return'', and directed by Jeremy Sims. Synopsis Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman, unaware t ...

) * Last Cab to Darwin * Gulpilil * The Chatroom * Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of

Uncle Vanya ''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the dir ...

* Unaustralia * Mt Ragged * Night of the Sea Monkey * Krakouer * Country Song, a play about Australian indigenous singer and musician Jimmy Little performed by the

Queensland Theatre Company Queensland Theatre, formerly the Queensland Theatre Company and Royal Queensland Theatre Company, is a professional theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia. It regularly performs in its own Bille Browne Theatre and the Queensland Performi ...

at the Cremorne Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (August 2015) * Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River, a play about a man ravaged by drought, family secrets and love performed by the

Griffin Theatre Griffin Theatre Company is an Australian theatre specialising in new works, based in Sydney. Founded in 1979, it is the resident theatre company at the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross. the artistic director is Declan Green. Artistic direc ...

in January 2016 then touring nationally in 2018 With

Rachel Perkins Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She directed the films ''Radiance'' (1998), ''One Night the Moon'' (2001), ''Bran Nue Dae'' (2010), and ''Jasper Jones'' (2017). Perkins is an ...

, Cribb co-wrote the screenplay for the movie

Bran Nue Dae __NOTOC__ ''Bran Nue Dae'' is a 1990 musical set in Broome, Western Australia, that tells stories and of issues relating to Indigenous Australians. It was written by Jimmy Chi and his band Kuckles and friends, and was the first Aboriginal Aust ...

based on the 1989 stage musical

written by

Jimmy Chi James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'' which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life Chi was born in Broome, Western Australia in ...

Acting career

Cribb appeared in the film A Country Life. He appeared in Home and Away during the 1990s, with appearances in G.P., A Country Practice and

Police Rescue ''Police Rescue'' is an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC. Apart from the 61 episodes, there was a 90-minute pi ...

. He also sang the song "Banana Holiday" on the ABC children's TV series

Bananas in Pyjamas ''Bananas in Pyjamas'' is an Australian children's television series that first aired on 20 July 1992 on ABC. It has since been syndicated in many countries and dubbed into other languages. In the United States, the "Pyjamas" in the title wa ...

with Monica Trapaga as well as the main cast of the show. Stage history includes

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's ''Ham ...

, Hester, The Players, Face to Face, Romeo and Juliet and The Turning.

Awards

* Last Cab to Darwin – 2003 Qld Premier's Literary Award, 2003 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, 2003 WA Premier's Award for Best Script, overall 2003 WA Premier's Award (the first to win this award), 2003 WA Equity Award for Best New Script. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the 2003 Australian Writers’ Guild Award. * The Return – 2001 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award and shortlisted for the 2001 Qld Premier's Literary Award. *The Chatroom – shortlisted for the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, the 2005 Qld Premier's Literary Award and the 2005 WA Premier's Literary Award. *Gulpilil – shortlisted for the 2001 Australian Writers’ Guild Award. *Ruby's Last Dollar – shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the WA Equity Awards. *Screenplay for

– 2006 WA Premier's Award. Nominated for the 2006 Qld Premier's Literary Award and Victorian Premier's Literary Award, as well as a 2006 AWGIE and Best Adapted Screenplay in the 2006 AFI Awards and Critics Circle Awards. * ''Country Song'' it won the 2013 Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award for New Work. In 2015, Cribb was the Professional in Residence at the Perth's Film & Television Institute.

References

External links

List of plays and awards
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