John Misto

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Sydney based playwright and screenwriter, John’s play Sky was produced by the Ensemble Theatre and subsequently at Glen Street, Q Theatre and it went on to tour nationally.

The Shoe-Horn Sonata, published by Currency Press, premiered at the Ensemble Theatre and other productions include La Boite Brisbane and King’s Head London (with Susannah York). It won the 1996 NSW Premier’s Award for Best Play and the ‘Australia Remembers’ National Play Competition and is bound for a 2007 tour. Gossamer premiered at the Ensemble and later played at the Fortune Theatre in NZ and John’s most recent play, Harp On The Willow, starring Marina Prior, enjoyed a sold-out season at the Ensemble Theatre in 2003 and was awarded the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award.

Harp was produced at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre starring Marina Prior, Joan Carden and Mary O’Hara. John co-created and wrote all the episodes for the ABC comedy/drama series The Cut in 2009. He also wrote the TV miniseries Sisters of War. His awards for screenwriting include a remarkable 3 AWGIES, 3 AFIs, a Penguin Award, a Queensland Premier’s Literary award for Sisters at War and a Logie for such works as Palace of Dreams, Natural Causes, Peter and Pompey, The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, and The Day of the Roses.