Malcolm Frawley

Currently teaching at Screenwise

Malcolm Frawley is a writer/director/teacher and actor with over 30 years of professional experience. His plays and/or productions have been performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay and Darwin.
 
One Of The Girls, Malcolm’s AWGIE-nominated theatre-in-education play about peer pressure, was published in 1995.
 
His play for teens Are We There Yet?, specially written for Year 10 and 11 drama students at St Aloysius College, was performed last year.
 
Malcolm worked for some years in serial television, writing and script-editing series including Neighbours and E Street.
 
More recently, he moved into screen-writing and spent many months working as script editor with young film-maker Christopher Weekes on his feature film Bitter And Twisted. Starring Noni Hazlehurst, Leanna Walsmann, Matthew Newton, Rhys Muldoon and Gary Sweet, it will receive its premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.
 
He recently completed a commission writing First Lady, a first fleet screenplay, with acclaimed novelist Alan Gold (Jezebel, Boadicea, The Pirate Queen etc).
 
Malcolm plays the serial killer, Knife, in the just-completed horror feature The 7th Hunt. He also played the lead in the short film Reubens, and major supporting roles in the low-budget features Rollover and Sum Of Existence (broadcast on Channel 9) and the short films Product, Rose and Faith.
 
Malcolm was co-director of NIDA’s screen acting programme for Third Years from 2000-2003 (inclusive) and taught Alex O’Lachlan (Oyster Farmer, Mary Bryant), Josh Lawson (Thank God You’re Here), Will Traval (All Saints) and Anna Torv (Secret Life Of Us) amongst many others.
 
He has taught screen acting, audition technique, stage-craft, text analysis, improvisation and characterisation at Screenwise, Sydney Theatre School, Actors College of Theatre and Television, Theatre Nepean, Screen Actors Workshop, Ed5, Kick Performance Group and Keane Kids/Gala Studios. He regularly leads screen writing workshops at St Aloysius College and play writing at The Studio, MLC Burwood. Over the past two years he has directed six productions for Darlo Drama.
 
Malcolm is the artistic director of Ferknerkle Productions (http://www.ferknerkle.com <http://www.ferknerkle.com/> ) whose most recent production, a two-play season at Newtown Theatre in November/December 2007, was Gone Bush by Brett Danalake & Iain Triffitt and Sniper, one of Malcolm’s own plays.
 
Malcolm is also General Manager / Co-Artistic Director of Newtown Theatre.

Biography

FEATURE FILM
2007     Knife (Principle) THE HUNTED Coherent Productions J.D Cohen
2005     Dr Young BITTER AND TWISTED Casp Productions Christopher Weekes
2003     Mack (Principle) SUM OF EXISTENCE Coherant Productions J D Cohen
2003     Sanders (Principle) ROLLOVER Blue Gum Films Robert Walker

SHORT FILM
2005     Priest (Principle) ROSE Darren Hawkins
2004     Man in Charge PRODUCT Jeremy Cassar
2003     Reubens (Title Role) REUBENS Damien Cassar

TELEVISION
2003     Bluey Waterhouse OUT THERE ABC TV Michael Carson

STAGE
2003     Wilbur (Co-Lead) KING OF THE CASTLE Ferknerkle Productions Brett Danalake

COMMERCIAL
2004     Financial Consultant CLEARVIEW Gillian Armstrong