Dallas Winmar Explained

Dallas Winmar
Occupation:Playwright
Nationality:Australian
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Dallas Winmar is a Western Australian writer who first worked with Company B in 2001 on the staging of her play Aliwa!. This play was first showcased in Perth by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 1999 and 2000.

She was commissioned by Kooemba Jdarra Theatre Company to write Skin Deep for their 2000 program. Yibiyung,[1] [2] her third play, was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 2006 and the PlayWriting Australia National Script Workshop in 2007.

Dallas was jointly awarded the Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2002 for Aliwa! (alongside Jane Harrison for Stolen). Aliwa! was also shortlisted for the script category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, and nominated for commendation for the Louis Esson Prize for Drama shortlist in 2003.

Winmar again won the Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2008 for Yibiyung.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Play - "Yibiyung", Indigenous Fire Management and book "First Taste". 21 September 2008 . ABC Online. 19 June 2013.
  2. Web site: Legacy of a little girl lost. 25 October 2008. The Age. 19 June 2013.
  3. Web site: More past winners : Faculty of Arts . Faculty of Arts . 21 November 2019 . 14 April 2020.