Phillip Rouse

BIOGRAPHIE

PHILLIP JAMES ROUSE Phillip James Rouse is an award winning playwright and theatre director. He has worked across Melbourne, Sydney and London with his companies Don’t Look Away and The Hazard Project. In London he has presented work at RADA, The Finborough Theatre and the Drayton Arms. In Australia has worked at the Sydney Opera House, Lawler Theatre Southbank, Wharf 1 theatre, and presented 10 lost Australian classics at venues such as Theatre Works St Kilda, bAKEHOUSE theatre, Red Line Productions, La Mama Carlton, and The Seymour Centre. His work as a director saw Don’t Look Away nominated for over 10 awards across Sydney and Melbourne. His first play Night Slows Down was listed in the best new writing category of Suzy Goes See 2017 round up. In 2018 his play Lions and Tigers and Bears won the Silver Gull Award. This play is currently undergoing development with Brave New Word theatre company. He has also received main stage productions of two adaptations: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht for Theatre Works, and Babes in the Wood; a tale of purity d’filed by Phillip James Rouse inspired by the writing of Tom Wright. His short film The Interpreter 2019 was his first collaboration with continuance pictures. The Last Lesson 2022-23 is his most recent. His writing focuses on the individual’s place in society and the place of people with no where to go. He interrogates the interrelationship between the personal and the political. He currently has 5 feature film projects in development.

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