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1 9 form y separately published work icon Heartbreak High Hannah Carroll Chapman , Matthew Whittet , Marieke Hardy , Meyne Wyatt , Thomas Wilson-White , Natesha Somasundaram , ( dir. Gracie Otto et. al. )agent Australia : FremantleMedia Australia NewBe Netflix , 2022 23518505 2022 series - publisher film/TV

'A discovery makes AMERIE an instant pariah at Hartley High, and causes a mysterious and very public rift with her ride-or-die HARPER. With her new friends - outsiders QUINNI and DARREN - AMERIE must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.'

Source: Netflix.

1 y separately published work icon We Are The Mutable Matthew Whittet , 2021 South Brisbane : Playlab , 2021 24500550 2021 single work drama

'Matthew Whittet’s We Are The Mutable externalises the internal worlds of four teenagers through the magical phenomenon of waking up changed, transformed or mutated. It questions how we deal with change and being vulnerable, what happens when you are faced with your fears, and how we find empathy.'  (Publication summary)

1 Kindness Matthew Whittet , 2020 single work drama

'Lukas isn’t in a good place. He hasn’t been for some time.

'His friends Claude, Song and Dylan decide they can’t sit by and watch anymore. Tenderly and with great patience, they start to tell each other stories. Of the moments they all met. Of the times they were complete idiots and the happiness they’ve shared together. They tell these stories because they know their friend Lukas also needs to tell his. His life depends on it. A gentle soul with a love for ancient night skies, Lukas has fallen into a deep and complicated grief. One that he can’t pull himself out of. He can feel history repeating and black holes opening up. But this isn’t who he is. In fact, he doesn’t even recognise the person he’s become.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 form y separately published work icon School Dance Matthew Whittet , ( dir. Rosemary Myers ) Australia : Windmill Pictures , 2018 13199381 2018 single work film/TV

'This is a story about three teenagers. Matt, Luke and Jonathon. They’re meeting up before the school dance. They’re on a mission. But they’re losers.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

1 y separately published work icon Fight with All Your Might the Zombies of Tonight Matthew Whittet , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2016 11975450 2016 single work drama

'It's not easy being young and smart.  

'Alex is a twelve-year-old with a keen eye and a wit to match.  She's been watching everyone at school for the last few days like an eagle... or maybe a hawk, and something's not right.  Everyone is acting weird.  They're all starting to say the same things, wear the same clothes, do bad dance routines in the corridors for no reason at all and meet up after school to drink decaf-mocha-latte-soy-frappucinos.   The writing's on the wall.  She knows what's happening.  They're all turning into zombies.

'In fact, it's the Night of the Zombies - that fateful occurrence that happens once every 200 years.  Alex and her buddies know what to do, they'll have to fight with all their might the zombies of tonight.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 6 y separately published work icon Seventeen Matthew Whittet , 2015 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 7803824 2015 single work drama

'You’re in for a treat.

'Matthew Whittet is the true original mind of Australian theatre – actor, writer, muse, inventor of marvels, scribe of human beauty and lover of oddity. Seventeen is the play he’s been getting ready to write for a long time. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, and it has been specially, like really specially, written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors. To be precise:

'Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Barry Otto. The lot of them.

'These venerables play a group of teenagers (!) drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing (!!) their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood.

'Funny, immature, wise and a little bit but quite beautifully sad, Seventeen is about the size of life.' (Production summary)

1 36 form y separately published work icon Girl Asleep Matthew Whittet , ( dir. Rosemary Myers ) Australia : Soft Tread Enterprises Windmill Pictures , 2015 7389221 2015 single work film/TV

Girl Asleep is a film adaptation of the acclaimed 2014 play of the same name. It follows shy teenager Greta Driscoll as life takes unexpected turns in the lead up to her fifteenth birthday.

1 Big Bad Wolf Matthew Whittet , 2014 single work drama children's

'Big Bad Wolf is a charming family production that offers playful re-imagining of a classic fairytale figure.

'From acclaimed Australian children’s theatre company Windmill Theatre, this production has earned rave reviews from critics, parents and most importantly children. This table-turning play reveals Big Bad Wolf is in fact the most misunderstood character in fairytale history.

'With plenty of audience interaction, young theatre goers will be captivated by this inventive, high quality production, that re-introduces the Big Bad Wolf as a vegetarian, poetry-writing, people person.' (Production summary)

1 Windmill Theatre Trilogy Matthew Whittet , 2014 series - author drama
1 Fugitive Matthew Whittet , 2014 single work drama

'It’s a fantasy, manga, hip-hop, slacker Australia, sometime in the near future. The leaders have disappeared and it’s every man for himself. In the fog of his urban chaos, a young man returns. A guy with strange power and a backpack of destruction. His name is Robin. In a bold retelling of the classic folklore Robin Hood, Fugitive is a hysterical, anarchic knife-edge ride that is contemporary Australian theatre at its best.

'Windmill Theatre’s Fugitive, School Dance and Girl Asleep form a unique trilogy of rites-of-passage stories by Helpmann Award-nominated writer/director team Matthew Whittet and Rosemary Myers. The adrenaline of the alpha male, the pain of the loser, and the dark inner world of the teenage girl underscore these three distinct works each delivering an outrageous, hilarious, painful, violent and ultimately celebratory experience.' (Source: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2014/theatre/fugitive )

1 5 y separately published work icon Girl Asleep Matthew Whittet , 2014 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2016 7095923 2014 single work drama

'Greta Driscoll is frozen in the spotlight of her fifteenth birthday party. As the events of the night unfold, going from bad to worse, a stranger arrives sending Greta into a parallel place; a latent world that’s weirdly erotic, ultra-violent and thoroughly ludicrous – it is there she will find herself. This is a girls’ own adventure where heroism and gender are turned on their head in a unique explosion of the sisterhood.

'Windmill Theatre’s Fugitive, School Dance and Girl Asleep form a unique trilogy of rites-of-passage stories by Helpmann Award-nominated writer/director team Matthew Whittet and Rosemary Myers. The adrenaline of the alpha male, the pain of the loser, and the dark inner world of the teenage girl underscore these three distinct works each delivering an outrageous, hilarious, painful, violent and ultimately celebratory experience.' (Source: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2014/theatre/girl_asleep )

1 y separately published work icon Cinderella Matthew Whittet , 2014 Brisbane : Playlab , 2019 11974754 2014 single work drama

'This Cinderella is not about princes and princesses. It’s about a single woman in her early 40s trying to go on a date, and a single guy who has an unreasonable fear of not being heard over loud music in bars. There may not be any ugly sisters, but there’s the occasional mysterious animal. There’s midnight. There’s a shoe. There’s dancing. And there’s beautiful transformation.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 3 School Dance Matthew Whittet , 2012 single work drama young adult 'This is a story of three teenage boys. They're going to the school dance. They're on a mission. But they are losers. First there's Matt. He's 15, although he doesn't look it. Then there's Luke, also 15. Luke likes dancing. And for a loser, he's pretty good at it. Neither Matt nor Luke has a girlfriend (if you hadn't already guessed). Then there's Jonathon. Even though he's taller, he's only 14. He's excited about the dance - as long as he doesn't run into Derek Sturgess... These three are the awkward kids. The invisible teens. Fuelled by a diet of raging hormones and mee goreng noodles, they exist in a misfit realm, navigating complex waters with little success. A highly personal work that, just like it's central protagonists, is funny, sad, scary, weird, really stupid, endearing and repulsive.' Source: www.windmill.org.au/
1 5 y separately published work icon Old Man Matthew Whittet , 2012 Darlinghurst : Shanahan Management , 2012 Z1841991 2012 single work drama 'Daniel wakes up. Something is missing. The phone is not working, and the kids' toys are not in their usual spot under the television. In fact, his wife and children seem to have disappeared.

Old Man is Matt Whittet's extraordinary play about fathers and sons, love and loss, kindness and Newtown. It is a beautiful and shockingly simple tale in two parts, which asks if it is possible to wake up one day and make good-enough better.' (Source: Belvoir St Theatre website.)
1 3 Silver Matthew Whittet , 2009 single work drama fable

'A delicate creature, part fable, part mystery, 'Silver' tells the strange and beautiful tale of a young girl's search for stillness lost.'

Source: Belvoir St Theatre website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/
Sighted: 13/10/2009

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