Jane Harrison (playwright)

Jane Harrison is an Aboriginal Australian playwright, novelist, literary festival director, and researcher.[1] Her best-known work is the play Stolen, which received critical claim and has toured nationally and internationally since 1998.

Jane Harrison

Early life and education

Harrison is a descendant of the Muruwari people of New South Wales, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina.[1]

She grew up in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria with her mother and sister, and began her career as an advertising copywriter.[1]

Plays

Stolen

Main article: Stolen (play)

Stolen premièred in 1998 at Playbox (now Malthouse Theatre) Melbourne directed by Wesley Enoch followed by seven annual seasons in Melbourne, plus tours to Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the United Kingdom (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, with readings in Canada, New York City and Los Angeles. In Sydney, it was performed at the Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Wayne Blair. Stolen is a play about the lives of five First Nations people from the stolen generations.[2] For Stolen Harrison was awarded the Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Nomination, was co-winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and received an Honourable Mention in the CACS National Awards Individual Category for An Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture. Stolen has been studied on the Victorian Certificate of Education and New South Wales Higher School Certificate English and drama syllabi for some years - it is the vehicle through which a generation of young people have learned about the stolen generations of First Nations children. Australian Book Review writes "Stolen is a contemporary classic".[3]

Sydney Theatre Company staged a new production of Stolen in its 2024 season, directed by Ian Michael.[4]

Rainbow's End

Rainbow's End premièred in 2005, and toured Melbourne, Sydney, regional Australia, and Japan in 2007, and has had numerous subsequent productions. Harrison was awarded for Rainbow's End the Drover Award (Tour of the Year) and a Helpmann Awards nomination for Best Regional Touring Production. It has been studied on the New South Wales Higher School Certificate and is currently on the Victorian Certificate of Education English syllabus. Rainbow's End tells the simple, yet convoluted story of three generations of First Nations women; young Dolly, her mother the happy-go-lucky Gladys, and the wise and stern Nan Dear, living in their shanty perched on the flats of the Goulburn River in 1950s regional Victoria. The play was initially directed by Wesley Enoch.[5]

On a Park Bench

On a Park Bench was created through workshops at Playbox and the Banff playRites Colony in 2002. The play was a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize.[2]

Blakvelvet

Blakvelvet won the 2006 Theatrelab Indigenous Award.[2]

The Visitors

The Visitors was initially workshopped at the Yellamundie Festival in 2013, before a development at the Melbourne Theatre Company Cybec Electric series / Melbourne Indigenous Festival in 2014, directed by Leah Purcell.[6]The Visitors re-imagines the arrival of the First Fleet on Gadigal country from the perspective of seven elders meeting on the shores of the harbour.[7]

The Visitors premiered as a full production in January 2020 as part of the Sydney Festival. It was awarded the prize for Best New Australian Work, 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards, and was shortlisted for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[8]

Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts produced a second production of The Visitors at the Sydney Opera House in September / October 2023, directed by Wesley Enoch.[9] This production won the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Mainstage Production, and Best Ensemble, and went on to tour regional Australia in 2024.[10]

Victorian Opera commissioned Harrison to collaborate with composer Christopher Sainsbury to develop an operatic version of The Visitors, staged at Arts Centre Melbourne in October 2023.[11]

The opera was listed on the Victorian Certificate of Education 2023 curriculum.[12]

Novels and short stories

The Visitors

The narrative arc presented in Harrison's play The Visitors is reconceptualized as a literary novel, also called The Visitors, published by HarperCollins in 2023. The novel was named Debut Fiction book of the year in the 2024 Indie Book Awards.

Becoming Kirrali Lewis

Harrison's novel, Becoming Kirrali Lewis, won the State Library of Queensland 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship, was shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016, and was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016. Becoming Kirrali Lewis is a coming-of-age teen fiction novel about the search by Stolen Generations member Kirrali Lewis for her biological parents, which turns stereotypes on their heads. Becoming Kirrali Lewis was published by Magabala Books in 2015.

Born, Still

Short story, Born, Still, was published by the State Library of Queensland in Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, launched in May 2014, and in the anthology Flock published by University of Queensland Press in 2021. Born, Still is a gentle reflection on the death of a daughter before birth.

Born, Still was subsequently re-worked as a play, workshopped at the National Play Conference in 2018 with a reading at the Melbourne Writers Festival also in 2018.

First Nations Monologues

First Nations Monologues (edited by Harrison) is an anthology of 30 contemporary First Nations playwrights’ most notable theatrical monologues. Published by Currency Press in 2023, it pays homage to the diverse perspectives that resonate throughout Australia.

Little J & Big Cuz

Harrison has written for Little J & Big Cuz, an Australian First Nations animated television series first screened on the NITV network and subsequently on ABC television. The series won the 2018 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Program.[13] Harrison's contribution is recorded on IMDb.[14]

Healing our communities, healing ourselves

In an act of generous courage, Harrison confessed in 2010 to her own struggles with mental health in an essay published in the Medical Journal of Australia. At a time when mental health was a career-ending stigma, she did so as a platform for talking about First Nations' mental health more broadly. Harrison’s essay Healing Our Communities, Healing Ourselves[15] argued that First Nations people faced the dual challenge of transgenerational trauma and its associated impact on mental health, in parallel with the more widely acknowledged structural barriers. She argued a healthy First Nations person and community represents best practice but that we First Nations workers travel a parallel journey, working to improve our community’s wellbeing, while sometimes struggling with our own. In recognition of her contribution to mental health awareness the Medical Journal of Australia awarded Harrison the Dr Ross Ingram Essay Prize.

Other works

Harrison created and led Blak & Bright - First Nations Literary Festival[16] in Naarm (Melbourne) from its inception in 2015 in the role of Artistic Director / Chief Executive Officer until August 2024. Blak & Bright is a bi-annual four-day festival celebrating the diverse expressions of First Nations story-tellers, the only major First Nations literary festival in Australia.

Indig-curious; Who can play Aboriginal roles? published by Currency House in 2012 explores the issues raised by First Nations identity in theatre. The essay was derived from Harrison's University of Queensland Masters Exegesis.

Harrison contributed a chapter to Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, which was published in 2002 by the National Library of Australia, Canberra. This work was also related to the theme of the stolen generations.[2]

Awards

Year Patron Category Title Award Ref
2024 Indie Book Awards Debut fiction The Visitors Winner [17]
2024 Creative Australia BR Whiting Studio Residency Herself Recipient [18]
2024 Sydney Theatre Awards Best Mainstage Production The Visitors Winner [19]
2024 Sydney Theatre Awards Best Ensemble The Visitors Winner [20]
2023 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards Individual category Herself Winner [21]
2022 Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Australian Work The Visitors Winner [22]
2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting The Visitors Shortlist [23]
2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Writing for Young Adults Becoming Kirrali Lewis Highly commended [24]
2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adult Literature Becoming Kirrali Lewis Shortlisted [25]
2014 State Library of Queensland Black & Write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship Becoming Kirrali Lewis Winner [26]
2012 Drovers Award Tour of the Year Rainbow’s End Winner [27]
2012 Helpmann Awards Best Regional Touring Production Rainbow’s End Nomination [28]
2012 British Council Indigenous Arts Leadership Accelerate program Herself Recipient
2010 Medical Journal of Australia Dr Ross Ingram Essay Prize Healing our communities healing ourselves Winner [29]
2009 Interpretation Australia Excellence in Heritage Interpretation Crime and Justice Experience at the Old Melbourne Gaol Winner (contributing writer)
2007 Peter Holmes a Court Indigenous Playwriting Award n/a Can White Girls Dreamtime? Winner
2006 Theatrelab Indigenous Award Blakvelvet Winner
1998 – 2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award Play writing Stolen Co-winner
Lake Macquarie Drama Prize n/a On a Park Bench Finalist
Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Stolen Nomination
CACS National Awards Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture Stolen Honourable Mention


See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Austlit — Jane Harrison". Austlit. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d J. Harrison (2000) Stolen. Strawberry Hills (NSW): Currency Press (Author’s biography on 1st page)
  3. ^ "Stolen - A stirring revival of Jane Harrison's play". Australian Book Review. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  4. ^ ""Stolen"". Sydney Theatre Company. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  5. ^ J. Harrison (2007) Rainbow's End published in Contemporary Indigenous Plays Currency Press (Author’s biography)
  6. ^ ""MTC - The Vistors"". Melbourne Theatre Company. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  7. ^ "The Vistors" by Jane Harrison". Austlit. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  8. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  9. ^ ""The Visitors"". Sydney Theatre Company. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  10. ^ ""The Visitors by Jane Harrison 2024 National Tour"". Moogahlin Perfomriong Arts Inc. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  11. ^ ""The Vistors"". Victorian Opera. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  12. ^ ""New opera brings composer Chris a full circle"". Canberra City News, 10 October 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  13. ^ "Logies awards 2018: Here's the full list of winners and nominees". ABC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  14. ^ "IMDb Jane Harrison, writer". 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  15. ^ Medical Journal of Australia 2010; 192 (10): 556-557.
  16. ^ "Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival". 14 March 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Indie Book Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  18. ^ "BR Whiting Studio residency". Creative Australia. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  19. ^ "2023 Nominees & Recipients". Sydney Theatre Awards. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  20. ^ "2023 Nominees & Recipients". Sydney Theatre Awards. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  21. ^ "2023 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced". Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards. 30 January 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  22. ^ "2021 Nominees & Recipients". Sydney Theatre Awards. 29 January 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  23. ^ "2021 NSW Premier's Literary Awards winner announcement". State Library of NSW. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  24. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016". The Wheeler Centre. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  25. ^ "Winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards". Creative Australia. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  26. ^ "black&write! Writing Fellowships". State Library of Queensland. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  27. ^ "About the Drovers". PAC Australia. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  28. ^ "nominees and winners". Helpmann Awards. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  29. ^ "Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition - Healing our communities, healing ourselves". The Medical Journal Of Australia. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  • [1] Stolen
  • [2] Contemporary Indigenous Plays Rainbow’s End
  • [3] Medical Journal of Australia Healing our communities, healing ourselves
  • [4] Currency House Indig-curious; Who can play Aboriginal roles?
  • [5] La Trobe University Not one size fits all: Understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children
  • [6] National Library of Australia Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation

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