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Finegan Kruckemeyer
| Full Name: | Finegan Kruckemeyer |
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| Occupation: | Playwright |
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Biography
Finegan Kruckemeyer has had 105 commissioned plays performed on six continents and translated into eight languages. He has received 42 awards (at least one each year since 2002) including the 2017 Mickey Miners Lifetime Achievement Award for services to international theatre for young audiences, the 2015 David Williamson Award for Excellence in Australian Playwrighting, and an inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.
In 2024, Finegan's first novel, 'The End and Everything Before It', was published by Text. A month later, it was reprint due to initial sales. It is rated 4.5 stars on Goodreads, and is the subject of many glowing reviews.
To date, Finegan's plays have had seasons in: 200 international festivals; all Australian states/territories; eight US national tours; five UK national tours; and at the Sydney Opera House (seven works), Scotland's Imaginate Festival (four works), New York's Lincoln Center for the Arts (three works), DC's Kennedy Center for the Arts (three works), Ireland's Abbey Theatre (two works) and Shanghai's Malan Flower Theatre (two works).
As well as the Mickey Miners and David Williamson Awards and Sidney Myer Fellowship, Finegan and his work have received eight Australian Writers Guild (AWGIE) Awards, 2012 Helpmann Award for Children's Theatre, 2010 Rodney Seaborn Award, 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship.
Finegan has been a speaker at the Ubud Writer's Festival (Indonesia), the Edinburgh International Children's Theatre Festival (Scotland), TYA USA National Conference, and the ITYARN Conference (Argentina), among others. He has delivered papers or sat on panels at conferences/festivals in nine countries, with papers published.
He was one of 21 selected worldwide for the ASSITEJ Next Generation (young leaders in children's theatre), and has sat on numerous arts boards including the Australian Script Centre and Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Arts Tasmania's Assistance to Individuals, Tas Literary Awards and Artsbridge panels, and the Story Island Project board (promoting youth literacy and empowerment through storytelling with marginalised young people).
Finegan was born in Ireland and moved halfway around the world to Adelaide, Australia aged eight. After 15 years, he and his wife left for the island state of Tasmania. And after 15 more, with their son Moe, they returned.
He is committed to making strong and respectful work for children, which acknowledges them as astute audience members outside the play, and worthy subjects within.
Works in the WWEnd Database
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