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Alex Broun (Alexander Alan Hercules Broun) was born on 16 March, 1965 in Sydney, Australia, is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Discover Alex Broun's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

Popular As Alexander Alan Hercules Broun
Occupation Playwright, screenwriter, director, rugby journalist, workshop facilitator, festival director
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 16 March 1965
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Sydney, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1965

Alex Broun (born 16 March 1965) is an Australian theatre director/producer, playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively with Short+Sweet, a series of theatre festivals for productions of ten minutes or less.

Born in Sydney, Australia, he has been referred to as "the Shakespeare of short plays".

1988

He also appeared in the 1988 Australian television movie, The First Kangaroos.

Broun has worked extensively as an activist for refugee rights with the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC NSW).

1997

He has also worked extensively as a Rugby journalist and served as Media Manager for the Springboks (1997–2000), the British & Irish Lions (2001), and the Melbourne Rebels (2007).

In his early years Broun trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, Australia, acting in plays alongside Nicole Kidman.

His work has been performed at the Sydney Festival, Edinburgh Festival and Brighton Festival.

Among his performed plays are The Jacaranda Tree, Vicious Streaks, and Just Once.

Broun worked as the Media Manager for the South Africa Rugby Football Union and served as Springboks Media Liaison from 1997 to 2000 under coach Nick Mallett.

2000

Broun has had over 100 ten-minute plays produced in over 2000 productions in more than 40 countries globally, and his plays have been translated into many languages.

2001

Broun received funding from the Australian Film Commission to write a script based on the sinking of the SIEV X in October 2001 when 353 asylum seekers lost their lives.

This was the second time he had received funding from the AFC following his fifty-minute feature Clean Time which received Script Development funding.

He has also written and directed several community health videos for Dr Smita Shah: Running Short for the Triple A Asthma Awareness programme and Ryan's Goal for SALSA – Students as Life Style Activists initiative.

Recently he adapted Krista Dalby's popular stage play Almost together with his own adaptation A Beautiful Request from his acclaimed play Half A Person both segments feature in the forthcoming film Cuatro directed by Robert Chuter.

As an actor his appearances include The Cowra Breakout (Directed by Phillip Noyce), alongside Kylie Minogue in Neighbours, Home and Away, A Country Practice and the films Watch the Shadows Dance (aka Night Zone) with Nicole Kidman, The Place at the Coast (Directed by George Ogilvie), Breaking Loose and The Boy Who Had Everything.

2004

In 2004, he acted as Convenor for Artists Against Howard, a group of artists across Australia who joined together to work with Not Happy John and try to remove Australian Prime Minister John Howard from his Federal seat of Bennelong in Sydney's north.

2006

Half a person – my life as told by The Smiths – a one-man show based on the music of The Smiths – was produced by Fly-on-the-wall Theatre (Directed by Robert Chuter, starring David Foster) at FEAST in Adelaide in 2006 and at the Newtown Theatre in Sydney in September 2007.

2007

In 2007 Broun organised the "Your Shout Forums" across Australia for the Shadow Arts Minister Peter Garrett, and co-ordinated the ALP's Federal Arts' Launch for the 2007 Federal Election at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta in Parramatta, Sydney.

2010

The play was then re-mounted by Fly-on-the-Wall Theatre at Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne, Australia starring Mark Taylor in May 2010.

PFV (Potential for Violence) was included in the Premiere Season of 4 one act plays by the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai PCYC Theatre Co., in November 2010

Together, we are Anna, a ten-minute play about anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare was published in the Mumbai Mirror in August 2010.

2011

10,000 beers, a full-length play, opened at Darlinghurst Theatre, In September 2011, directed by Lee Lewis with Gus Murray, Matt Zeremes, Andrew William Steele and Anthony Taufa.

2012

It then returned for an encore season at the same venue in August the same year before being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012, directed by Donald Pulford and performed by Joseph Murray.

10,000 beers was nominated for Best Stage Play in the 2012 AWGIE Awards

In 2012 he became a National Ambassador for Welcome to Australia

2013

In October 2013, he wrote and co-directed Oneness-Voice without form , the life of Swami Vivekananda, at the Playhouse of the Sydney Opera House before touring to BMAC in Brisbane.

2014

In 2014 this production transferred to the Kings Head Theatre in London.

As a director, he directed Woomera by Josh Wakely.

The play was then remounted by The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights & Turquoise Theatre in association with PICA as part of Fringeworld in Perth in February 2014.

In 2014, Truth beauty and a picture of you, a musical written with Tim Freedman premiered at the Hayes Theatre Company in Sydney, Australia '.

Disappointed at the Sydney critics' response to the show Broun wrote a response on The Australian website.

Also in 2014, November Spawned a Monster, the companion piece to Half a person – my life as told by The Smiths was produced at The Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney in November, directed by Robert Chuter (director) and starring James Wright.

2015

The play was also performed at the American School of Dubai in May 2015.

2016

In November 2016 the inaugural Alex Broun Play Festival was held at The Junction in Dubai.

This four-day event featured 44 of Alex's plays performed by over 100 Dubai actors, directors, schools and Theatre groups.

In December 2016 he co-wrote Howzat with actor/producer Asad Raza Khan, the first full-length English play to be set in contemporary UAE, which was performed at The Junction in Dubai.

2017

The play returned for a second season at The Junction in May 2017.

Alex And Asad were jointly awarded the Best Script for the play at the 2017 Dubai Theatre Awards.

2019

From June 2019 to October 2019 Alex was the Head of Drama at Studio Republik in Dubai, where he established their highly respected drama programme, and in November 2022 he was appointed Head of Performing Arts at Argan Bedaya in Kuwait.

In August 2022, Alex wrote and directed Blind City, a large scale modern adaptation of Inferno by Dante Alighieri with a cast of over 30 actors, at The Junction in Dubai.