curriculum vitae KOKODA AND RADIO SCHOOL

JOHN LONIE – curriculum vitae
See current projects in Sample Works
KOKODA– feature film co-writer; Director Alister Grierson, Producers Leesa
Kahn & Released 2007
Was HEAD OF SCREENWRITING at the AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION
AND RADIO SCHOOL 2000-2008
Script editor JAPANESE STORY feature, director Sue Brooks, writer
AlisonTilson
Script editor BENEATH CLOUDS feature, writer/director Ivan Sen
Script editor DOGWATCH feature, writer/director Laurie McInnes]
Script editor WILD TURKEY short feature, writer/director Steve McKenzie
Script editor – DUST short film, writer/director Ivan Sen
Script editor – WIND short film, writer/director Ivan Sen
+ Ivan Sen’s short films at the AFTRS.
2001 Masterclass Lecture and Script Workshop for the Singapore Broadcasting
Authority September 2001
Earlier work includes:ACTS OF LOVE - three novellas; Blackwattle Press, published 1997
'A long way from Oxford Street' - short story in anthology HIDE & SEEK, Ed.
Jenny Pausacker. Random House, February 1996
'The Third Man' in FRUIT, Ed. Gary Dunne [Blackwattle Press, Sydney] 1994
LIFE'S A BEACH - four monologues for inter-connected characters about life
on Bondi Beach; ABC Radio National Audio Arts 1996.
'Contact' in MEANWHILE IN ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST, anthology
Ed. Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson [Crown/Random House, New
York, 1994]
THE INCARNATIONS OF ISABELLA - dramatised documentary ABC Radio
National - Sunday night feature, 1993
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FRANKIE'S HOUSE - tv biography of the Viet Nam War journalist Tim
Page's adventures in Viet Nam, [Roadshow/East Anglia Television - 4 by one
hour episodes.
BBC June 1992] Co-writer
Story in anthology TRAVELLING ON LOVE IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY
[ed] Gary Dunne, Blackwattle Press, 1991
SPRING AWAKENING - Frank Wedekind. Translation and adapation.
N.I.D.A [Second Year Production]; director Terry Clarke, 1991
A COUNTRY PRACTISE - 'in-house' story-liner and script editor 1991
THE PAPER MAN - the rise and rise of an Australian press magnate.
[Roadshow/ABC/Granada - 6 x 1 hour episodes; ABC, RTE Ireland, BBC UK,
CTV Canada] AFI AWARD BEST MINI-SERIES, 1991. Repeat run
Decamber/January 1995/96
POLICE RESCUE [episode 8 - ABC, BBC]
'WHERE WOLVES ROAM' - short story in Outrage November 1990
GP [ABC] - various 1989/90
THE TRUE BELIEVERS - dramatisation of the Labor Party up to the 1954 split
[8 x 1 hours, ABC-TV; original writers Bob Ellis & Stephen Ramsay] Brought
in as script editor and uncredited writer. AFI AWARD BEST MINI-SERIES
1988
WILLISEE'S AUSTRALIANS - 13 tv biographies of famous Australians. Nine
Network 1988 :- Errol Flynn - Writer
- Betty Cuthbert - Script Editor
LEARNING FROM LIFE - five Australian theatre-in-education plays.
[Currency Press]; editor/writer 1987
EARLIER FILM/TV & THEATRE WORK
LIFE AFTER DEATH - a North Shore woman's husband dies, freeing her
from a staid and boring life. She flushes his ashes down the toilet. AFTRS 1984
- 23 minutes;
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VALPARAISO - An old man leaves his money to the state railways rather
than to his greedy daughters. AFTRS - 1984 - 25 minutes,
Producer/Production Manager.
WINNER PENGUIN AWARD, 1985
SPRING AWAKENING - Frank Wedekind, Translation and adaptation
St.Martins Theatre, Melbourne; director Helmut Bakaitis. 1984
THE CUCUMBER KING - a family provides refuge for a deposed Cucumber
King who turns out to be a tyrant deposed by his people. [A play for children.
SCTSA, Magpie, Adelaide Festival] a stage adaptation of "Wir pfeiffen auf
den Gurkenkonig" by Christine Nostlinger. 1982
THE SAW AND THE CARPENTER - a carpenter discovers he can play his
saw and joins a band; a musical play for children. [The 'Come Out Festival',
Adelaide] 1981
HEY MUM, I OWN A FACTORY - a group of women are sacked and run the
factory themselves. [STCSA, Magpie. Devised and co-wrote] 1981
RED LIGHT SQUARE - cabaret on the 'oldest profession'; STCSA, 1981
KULLENNER - the story of the Tasmanian Tiger [a puppet play for children;
Tasmanian Puppet Theatre], 1980.
I'VE GOT A NAME - an Austrian refugee comes to Australia in 1939,
[Salamanca Theatre Co, Hobart] 1980
UNTIL YA SAY YA LOVE ME - two teenagers, their fantasies and fears about
sex. 1980 [STCSA, Magpie. Co-devised, co-wrote]
STRIKE AT THE PORT - the story of a family in Port Adelaide during the
1928 wharf strike. [STCSA- Magpie. Devised and with Nick Enrigt and
company, co-wrote] 1978
PUBLICATIONS [selected]
"It's a Great Place to bring up Kids!" - Meanjin 1, 1984.
"A History of Drug Use in Australia" - published by and for the South
Australian Royal Commission into the Non-medical Use of Drugs. (Adelaide
1979.)
"The Magpie Strike" - Meanjin, 3, 1978
"A Fading Bourgeois Utopia" - Meanjin, 4, 1978.
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Member research group for Women in Australia - a documentary history Eds.
K.Daniels, M. Murnane, A.Picot (AGPS, Canberra 1977)
EDUCATION
Matriculation, Brisbane Grammar School
BA [Hons Politics & History] University of Queensland
Master of Arts [Australian History] University of Adelaide
AFTRS - 1984
WORK HISTORY (selected)
Tutor & Lecturer, Australian History & Politics, University of Adelaide, 197072
Freelancer, radio Adelaide - ABC, 5DN 1976
Writer/Researcher-Dramaturg, State Theatre Company of South Australia,
1977-1981
Various writer-in-residencies 1981/82
Associate producer/dramaturg, St.Martins Theatre, Melbourne 1982/3
Since 1985, freelance writer
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