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Photo of Jeanette Cronin by Mars Hollidae

 

 

Jeanette's first play Tell Me Again, produced by Eye of the Storm, premiered at The Old 505 Theatre in 2014 and in 2019 received a workshop and rehearsed reading at the Arcola Theatre in London. In 2015 Jeanette co-devised with director, Peter Mountford, the one-woman show Queen Bette, about the life of screen legend Bette Davis, produced by G.Bod Theatre for Mardi Gras 2015 at The Old 505 Theatre, with return seasons in 2016 and 2019, The Hunter Valley Summer Theatre Festival, 2016 and Gasworks Arts Park for Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival, 2020. Jeanette’s second play I Hate You My Mother, produced by Real Harpy and Whitebox, premiered at The Old Fitz in 2017, and her third play I Love You Now premiered at The Eternity Playhouse for Darlinghurst Theatre Company, also in 2017. Jeanette’s short play, Who the Hell is Mirabel? received its international premiere at the Schreiber Shorts Festival on Theatre Row, New York in June, 2023.

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Four new plays were recently shortlisted for local and international awards: Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia and The Resistible Death and Rise of Ines de la Vera, a love letter to the lonely, for the Alpine International Playwriting Award, 2020 and 2023 respectively; Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and God in Space, a Pandemic Family dramedy for The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2020 and 2022 respectively.

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Recent screenplays include the AWGIE Award winning, Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad web-series about therapy which had its international premiere in competition at Cannes Short Series 2022 and its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, also in 2022. In 2021, Shattered, the Australian component of the multi award-winning film, LockEdown Locked In, an international project reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic garnered Jeanette, along with her international colleagues, Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival, 08, 2021. In 2020 Jeanette contributed Paradise is Silent, a spoken word iambic verse poem, to Come To Where I Am, Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia and Paines Plough, London.

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Jeanette has worked extensively as an actor in theatre, film and television and has participated in several Australian National Playwrights' Conferences as well as numerous readings and development workshops for Playwriting Australia, Playworks, Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre and Griffin and has contributed significantly as both actor and dramaturge to many Australian premiered works.

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