chrisdockrill
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Bio
Chris Dockrill’s published plays include – Angry People, Next Station, The Interrogation, Scalpel, Divisions, Flatmates, Cage, The Joker, Old Girls and Benchmarks. His works have appeared in Power Plays, Modern Moralities, Superscripts, Dynamic Dramatics and Enter the Players. Works awaiting publication include award winning Barbed Wire Canoes, The Joker, Middle Class Fantasies, Precious Metal and the collected work – A Corrugated Collection. Chris has worked as film script adviser to TAFE - ACT, has been a commissioned playwright to the ACT government and has written Frankenstein – A Born Again Legend for Curriculum Resources - NSW DET. He was the founder of “The Sanctuary Players” - a theatrical society based in Turramurra and has been an active leader in the field of Drama in secondary schools for over 25 years. In the last decade, he organised and produced The Hastings Drama Festival and the Mid North Coast Drama Camp which employs professional stage and screen actors to pass on their skills to secondary Drama students. He has produced written, co-written and directed many diverse productions ranging from The Blocky Horror Show (a spoof on Rocky) to Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker and Albee’s, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Recently, wrote Big Soooze, a musical drama set in Kings Cross in the 1920s after initial developmental workshops with other colleagues. Chris has also written produced and directed rock musicals including Beef, Chill and The Island of Doctor Moron. Chris lives with his family, Lyn and three children on their property at Delicate Nobby, near Crescent Head on the mid-north coast of NSW. He can be contacted at dock@bordernet.com.au