Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is an Australian theatre director. He is Artistic Director of Belvoir, a theatre company in Sydney's Surry Hills.

Flack, who grew up in Darwin, was encouraged towards a career in theatre by actor Bille Brown when studying at the University of Queensland, where Brown was an adjunct professor. Flack studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.[1] Flack become Literary Manager and later Associate Director at Belvoir, before being appointed Artistic Director from 2016.[2][3]

Two productions Flack directed for Belvoir have won Best Play at the Helpmann Awards, Angels in America [4] in 2014 and The Glass Menagerie[5] in 2015. He was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2016 for Belvoir's production of Ivanov.

Counting and Cracking, which Flack co-wrote with S. Shakthidharan, won both the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama at the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.[6]

References
  1. Blake, Elissa (2014-09-19). "The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  2. Spring, Alexandra (2014-11-13). "Eamon Flack named as Belvoir theatre's artistic director from 2016". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  3. Taylor, Andrew (2014-11-14). "Eamon Flack appointed new artistic director of Belvoir". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  4. "2014 Nominees | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  5. "2015 Nominees | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  6. Delaney, Brigid (2020-01-30). "Counting and Cracking: Belvoir Street's standout hit wins Australia's richest literary prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
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