Finegan Kruckemeyer
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Finegan (26) has had 33 works commissioned by professional, independent and youth theatre companies, and festivals. 24 have so far been performed around Australia and in America, with nine new works in development for the remainder of 2007, and 2008. His plays have been part of the 2005 and 2007 State Theatre Company of SA seasons, the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals, the Come Out Festival, the Ten Days on the Island Festival, the 2002 Festival of One, the 2003 Gorge season, and the 2005 inSpace season.
Finegan was the recipient of the 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights’ Award for ‘This Uncharted Hour’ for Brink Productions, and the 2001/2 Colin Thiele Writers’ Scholarship, as well as other scholarships and grants. He was selected as one of five Australian delegates at the international 2005 World Interplay Conference, one of six at the 2007 JUTE Conference, and one of 25 worldwide at the international ASSITEJ Next Generation Conference.
His Brecht Estate-approved translation of Brecht’s ‘Drums in the Night’, first commissioned by Brink Productions and part of the 2005 State Theatre season, enjoyed a three-month season in Los Angeles with Tim Robbins’ company, The Actors’ Gang. He is one of the founding members of Slingsby, a new triennially funded children’s theatre company, which has been invited to perform at the international 2008 ASSITEJ Conference.