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Writing for stage and screen…”To survive, you must tell stories.”
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Writing for Performance<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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My stories are about connections – stories inspired partly by my fascination with time and memory, and partly by various stories shared with family and friends. In developing these stories over time, the play became in part a reflective study of identity and sense of place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stories to change the way we see the world…<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Current Productions in Development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

FACES and STORIES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“I write to discover what I know.”
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Dear 21st Century<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Shark in the Rockpool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A drama set in the surfing world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Funny Brain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Whimsical in the most imaginative sense, their dialogue make it very easy to give Adolfo’s writing the benefit of the doubt. If the reality was not like this, it should have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stories are manipulative, and sentimental, and it does sometimes feel derivative… But it is also sincere, affectionate, involving and presses its buttons so deftly I welled up exactly as I was supposed to. At least three times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shark in the Rockpool is an intimate coming-of-age story that will leave you in tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In beautiful, disturbing, and confronting ways, Dear 21st Century compels the audience to see beyond the surface and recognize that people can be optical illusions – a double image hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Funny Brain’ makes a case that such dissection of comedy is still possible, and the resultant effort can reveal fathomless depths of analysis that can dismantle the nature of laughter and the human psyche. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shark in the Rockpool is … a somewhat melancholy look at the difficulty of growing up and finding your place when you don’t seem to fit anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born in Manila, Philippines, he studied History and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, winning the \u2018Noel Chettle Art Prize\u2019. He completed an MA in media production at AFTRS, and did his internship at Robert de Niro\u2019s Tribeca Films, New York. He has written and directed plays at Belvoir St. Downstairs (inc. \u2018Fresh Off the Boat\u2019, by David H. Hwang). He worked as an assistant to Neil Armfield on the STC\u2019s production of Gogol\u2019s \u2018The Government Inspector\u2019. As an actor he did national tours with Barry Humphries \/ Dame Edna, and in a musical, Cole Porter\u2019s \u2018Anything Goes\u2019 for the Victorian State Opera. He was Jane Campion\u2019s director\u2019s assistant during post production of the film, \u2018The Piano\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He currently works as a post-producer and TV editor on documentary and non-scripted \u2018reality\u2019 TV shows – documentaries include \u2018Fine Line \u2013 On Ethics and Journalism\u2019, \u2018The Secret History of Eurovision\u2019, non-scripted include X Factor, My Kitchen Rules, Great Australian Bake Off, Chef\u2019s Line, Ninja Warrior and Gogglebox. His stage plays, developed under PWA initiatives, \u2018Media Academia Inc\u2019, \u2018Keeping In Touch\u2019 and \u2018Funny Brain\u2019 have had readings at the Griffin Theatre and various presentations in the USA and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n