Elias Jamieson Brown
Playwright, CAMP
Elias Jamieson Brown is an actor, and writer of screen and stage.
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.
Elias is currently working with screenwriting mentor, Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Obi-Wan Kenobi), to develop his queer horror TV series, Norfolk, as part of the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator, Impact Australia, founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. He is also currently writing A House on a Street in a Valley called Gomorrah, inspired by the Barwon Heads contamination cluster and with support from Creative Victoria and Geelong Arts Centre.
He has presented new writing for:
- Cybec Electric at Melbourne Theatre Company
- Playlist at Red Stitch Actors Theatre
- Victorian College of the Arts
- Australian Theatre for Young People
- Periscope Productions.
He has been shortlisted for:
- Screen NSW Emerging Writers’ Incubator (2021)
- Next Stage Residency at Melbourne Theatre Company (2018)
- National Script Workshop at Playwriting Australia (2016)
- Silver Gull Play Award (2018).
He is a recipient of the Jim Marks Scholarship, the University of Melbourne. He is an alumnus of the Fresh Ink National Mentorship and National Studio at the Australian Theatre for Young People.
Elias holds a Master of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts, 2017, and a Bachelor of Arts (Acting for Screen and Stage) from Charles Sturt University, 2014.
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 (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022), 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.
He is represented by Cameron’s Management.
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Elias Jamieson Brown is an actor, and writer of screen and stage.
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.
Elias is currently working with screenwriting mentor, Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Obi-Wan Kenobi), to develop his queer horror TV series, Norfolk, as part of the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator, Impact Australia, founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. He is also currently writing A House on a Street in a Valley called Gomorrah, inspired by the Barwon Heads contamination cluster and with support from Creative Victoria and Geelong Arts Centre.
He has presented new writing for:
- Cybec Electric at Melbourne Theatre Company
- Playlist at Red Stitch Actors Theatre
- Victorian College of the Arts
- Australian Theatre for Young People
- Periscope Productions.
He has been shortlisted for:
- Screen NSW Emerging Writers’ Incubator (2021)
- Next Stage Residency at Melbourne Theatre Company (2018)
- National Script Workshop at Playwriting Australia (2016)
- Silver Gull Play Award (2018).
He is a recipient of the Jim Marks Scholarship, the University of Melbourne. He is an alumnus of the Fresh Ink National Mentorship and National Studio at the Australian Theatre for Young People.
Elias holds a Master of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts, 2017, and a Bachelor of Arts (Acting for Screen and Stage) from Charles Sturt University, 2014.
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 (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022), 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.
He is represented by Cameron’s Management.
For the latest event written by Elias Jamieson Brown, and other events happening at Seymour Centre, check the links below.
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