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Mr David Megarrity

Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts,
Performance Studies

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Name
Mr David Megarrity
Position(s)
Lecturer in Drama
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts,
Performance Studies
Discipline *
Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Other Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
Phone
+61 7 3138 3247
Email
Location
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Qualifications

Master (Queensland University of Technology)

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

  • David is a writer, composer, performer, director and part-time Lecturer in Drama. In 2008 he received the QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (Innovative and Creative Practice)

 

  • Recipient of a Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship in 1998, his shows for children including Backseat Drivers, Ukulele Mekulele, Show, and Lily Can’t Sleep (with DeBase) have played at venues such as the Sydney Opera House across Australia and abroad.

 

  • David’s short film collaborations have won a number of awards and nominations, including Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2000.

 

  •  He has written soundtracks for a number of performances, short films and documentaries. Selected compositions are now compiled on the Sonic Loom CD. David’s written songs, performed and released music for bands such as Friends of the Iguana and The Goodbye Notes. His song writing has received multiple commendations from the statewide Q-song/Queensland Music Awards competition. He now has a close working relationship with ukulele maestro Tyrone.

 

  • In 2007, The Empty City (illustrated by Jonathon Oxlade) was published by Hachette Livre and selected by the Children’s Book Council of Australia in 2008 as a picture book of the year ‘Notable Book’. His stage adaptation of the work is a finalist in the Queensland Theatre Company’s Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2012/13.

 

  •  David’s research areas include collaborative creation of new performance works, and the confluence of music, narrative and emotion. Postgraduate supervisions are focused on playwriting. Publications include Together Alone: Balancing Sole Authorship and Collaborative Approaches to Performance Making (VDM Verlag) and Gate 38 (playscript).
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Teaching

Focussed on the creation of new work, through devising or playwright-led processes.

2008: Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (Innovative and Creative practice).

2006: Small Teaching and Learning Grant: Collaboratory – Characteristics of Collaborative Creativity – a documentary project aimed at uncovering some of the subtler steps in what Meill and Littleton (2004) call “the emotional dance of collaboration”.

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Experience

Freelance Writer/Performer/Director and Dramaturg.

Credits include work with La Boite, QPAC and the Queensland Theatre Company.

Projects have been funded by the Brisbane City Council, Arts Queensland and the Australia Council.

This information has been contributed by Mr David Megarrity.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Supervision

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)