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Jane Harrison was born on 1960, is an Indigenous Australian playwright and writer. Discover Jane Harrison's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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1950

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.

On a Park Bench was created through workshops at Playbox and the Banff playRites Colony.

The play was a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize.

1960

Jane Harrison (born 1960) is an Australian First Nations playwright, novelist, literary festival director and researcher.

A descendant of the Muruwari people of New South Wales, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina, Harrison is the grand-daughter of noted Aboriginal shearer William "Deucem" Smith.

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

Her best-known work includes Stolen which received critical claim and has toured nationally and internationally, and more recently The Visitors.

1998

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.

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.

Sydney Theatre Company has announced new production of Stolen in its 2024 season, to be directed by Ian Michael.

2005

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.

2006

Blakvelvet won the 2006 Theatrelab Indigenous Award.

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, and shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Award.

2010

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 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.

2013

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.

2014

Harrison's novel, Becoming Kirrali Lewis, won the State Library of Queensland 2014 black&write!

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.

2015

Becoming Kirrali Lewis was published by Magabala Books in 2015.

2016

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.

2018

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 (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.

2020

Harrison's latest play, 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.

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.

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.

This production won the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Mainstage Production, and Best Ensemble.

The play is listed on the New South Wales Higher School Certificate Drama curriculum for 2025-27.

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.

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