Elias Jamieson Brown

Writer

Elias Jamieson Brown is a playwright and screenwriter.   

His mainstage debut Green Park directed by Declan Greene, returned to the stage for Sydney Festival in 2022, after a sold-out, critically acclaimed premiere at Griffin Theatre Company in 2021. Green Park was nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.

His next production Camp, a new play based on interviews with Australia’s pioneer homosexual rights activists, will premiere at Sydney World Pride 2023. It was commissioned by LGBT Activist and ‘78er Robyn Kennedy. He is also writing A House on a Street in a Valley called Gomorrah, based in part on the Barwon Heads contamination cluster, and with development funding and support from Creative Victoria and Geelong Arts Centre. He has presented new writing for Cybec Electric at Melbourne Theatre Company, Playlist at RedStitch Actors Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, Australian Theatre for Young People, Periscope Productions, Apocalypse Theatre, and Old 505 Theatre.

Elias was selected for Ron Howard’s Impact Australia scheme. During the eight-week program Elias his own original project Norfolk with mentoring from Australian screenwriter and industry heavy weight Stuart Beatie. At the conclusion of the program he sold the project in a bidding war between three production companies to producer Carly Heaton at Fremantle Media. He is also current in discussions to option another original project.

 Previously, he has been shortlisted for the Screen NSW Emerging Writers’ Incubator (2021), the Next Stage Residency at Melbourne Theatre Company (2018), the National Script Workshop at Playwriting Australia (2016), and the Silver Gull Play Award (2018). He is a recipient of the Jim Marks Scholarship, University of Melbourne. He is an alumnus of the Fresh Ink National Mentorship and National Studio at the Australian Theatre for Young People. Elias graduated from a Master of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017.

He directed Claire Sara and Sancia Robinson in two sold-out seasons of Chloe Moss’ This Wide Night at The Burrow, Fitzroy (2019). He executive produced and co-wrote the feature film Ambrosia, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Gulf of Naples Festival and Best Cinematography at the Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival.

As an actor, he appears as lead roles in Ambrosia and The Interlude (in post-production), and The Madman with Lighting in His Hands for which he received the 2020 Chicken and Chips Casting Award for Best Male Performance in an Australian Short.

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