Murray-Smith, Joanna

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Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000000169Place of BirthMount Eliza, VictoriaActivities & OccupationsAuthorsPlaywrightsGenderFemaleHistoryJoanna Murray Smith is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, author and librettist. She received early success for her play the Angry Young Penguins which was performed at the Church Theatre in Melbourne and directed by Ewa Czajor. Murray-Smith subsequently went on to achieve international acclaim for her plays such as Honour, Female of the Species and her recent 2023 work Julia, based on former Prime Minister Julia Gillard's'mysogyny speech' in parliament in 2012

Murray-Smith was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria; her father was the literary editor and academic Stephen Murray-Smith (1922-1988). Stephen Murray-Smith was the founder of literary magazine Overland. Joanna Murray-Smith attended Toorak College and graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.On a Rotary International Scholarship in 1995, Murray-Smith attended the writing program at Columbia University, New York. In 2003, she took a sabbatical in Italy] She is married to husband Raymond Gill and has two sons and one daughter.

In 2000 she was awarded a Commonwealth Medal for Services to Playwriting and in 2012 she was made a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow of the University of Melbourne.Search records of this agent

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Source of DescriptionWikipedia contributors. (2023, October 28). Joanna Murray-Smith. In Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaValuation

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