Scott Rankin

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Australian theatre director and writer

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Scott Rankin (born 1959) is an Australian theatre director, writer and co-founder and creative director of the arts and social change company Big hART. Based in Tasmania, Rankin works in and with isolated communities and diverse cultural settings, as well as in commercial performance.

Early life and education

Rankin was born in 1959 in Sydney and grew up there. His parents were businesspeople who owned an early learning specialist toyshop and lived on a Chinese junk in Lane Cove, moored on Sydney Harbour for 21 years.

Rankin enrolled in an arts degree but did not complete it, instead working in a retirement village and offering music workshops to homeless youth. Since 1981, he has mainly lived and worked from the far north-west coast of Tasmania.

Work

As creative director of Big hART and as playwright and director, Rankin has created or collaborated on many large-scale Australian stage productions: Namatjira for the Namatjira family; Ngapartji Ngapartji for Trevor Jamieson, Box the Pony for Leah Purcell; RiverlanD for Wesley Enoch; StickybrickS for the Northcott Public Housing community in Surry Hills, Sydney; Junk Theory for the Sutherland Shire, as well as internationally touring works such as Certified Male.

Recognition

Rankin is a Fellow of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Rankin and his theatre works have received many awards, including:

  • 2000: Human Rights Award
  • 2000: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, for Box the Pony
  • 2000: Queensland Premier's Literary Award, for Box the Pony
  • 2002: Ros Bower Award for Community Cultural Development
  • 2004: Three Melbourne Green Room Awards for Beasty Girl (most innovative work, best female actor in leading role (Leah Purcell), best direction)
  • Two Green Room Award Nominations for Namatjira (best production and best actor (Trevor Jamieson));
  • Two Sydney Theatre Critics Awards (best new Australian work and best newcomer (Derik Lynch) and another 6 nominations (best mainstage production, best direction, best actor in a leading role, best actor in a supporting role, best lighting design and best score or sound design);
  • Deadly Award (most outstanding achievement in film, TV or theatre)
  • Critics Choice ArtsHub Award
  • Helpmann Award
  • World Health Organization Award for Safe Communities
  • 2018: Tasmanian state recipient, Australian of the Year

His works have been included in many arts festivals, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Edinburgh, and the Tasmanian 10 Days on the Island. He has also toured to Sweden, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands.

List of works

List of Rankin's works:

  • Glynn With a Why? (1988)
  • Kissing Frogs (1991)
  • Girl
  • Pandora Slams the Lid (1993)
  • Girl / Pandora Slams the Lid (1994)
  • Three Men Walk into a Bar (1996)
  • Glynn Nicholas Group – Wrung Out (1996)
  • Box the Pony (1997)
  • Pandora's Shed (1998)
  • Pumping Irony (1999)
  • Certified Male (1999)
  • Leaves Falling at Midnight (2001)
  • Career Highlights of the Mamu (2002)
  • What the World Needs Now (2002)
  • Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn (2003)
  • Riverland (2004)
  • Junk Theory (2007)
  • Brave Men Run in Our Family (2007)
  • StickybrickS (2007)
  • Ngapartji Ngapartji (2008)
  • Nyuntu Ngali (2009)
  • This is Living (2009)
  • Beat Bop Road (2009)
  • Namatjira Project (2010),
  • Hipbone Sticking Out (2013)

References

References

  1. [https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=50494371 "Rankin, Scott, 1959–"], [[National Library of Australia]]
  2. (28 February 2008). "Treasure is one man's junk". [[The Australian]].
  3. (15 November 2017). "Big hART: 25 years of making art with people at its heart". [[ABC News (Australia).
  4. (9 November 2011). "World Arts Summit – Outside the Comfort Zone". ABC Arts.
  5. (August 2011). "Namatjira". Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes.
  6. Rankin, Scott. (2012). "''Namatjira, written for the Namatjira Family (Aranda) and Ngapartji Ngapartji written for Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara)''". Currency Press.
  7. (1 November 2006). "Ngapartji Ngapartji". [[Sydney Morning Herald]], Emily Dunn.
  8. (2012). "Canberra Theatre Centre Announcement". Canberra Theatre Centre.
  9. Rankin, Scott. (1999). "''Box the Pony''". Hodder Headline.
  10. (2000). "Siting the Other: Revisions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama". Marc Maufort and Franka Ballarsi in: Theatre Research in Canada.
  11. (2000). "Adelaide Festival 2004: RiverlanD". Real Time Arts.
  12. (2006). "900 Neighbours". Atom.
  13. Rosemary Sorensen. (27 February 2008). "Treasure is one man's junk". [[The Australian]].
  14. (1999). "National Library of Australia entry".
  15. "Bio of Scott Rankin on Australianplays.org". Australianplays.org.
  16. "What Do We Reckon – Measuring the Cultural, Economic and Social Impacts of Arts Activities in Australia – Forum".
  17. "2011 Award Nominations Greenroom.com.au".
  18. (18 January 2011). "Measure of Belvoir's success confirmed with top prize from theatre critics". Sydney Morning Herald, Clare Morgan.
  19. (16 December 2010). "Sydney Theatre Award Nominees". Troy Dodds/Aussie Theatre.
  20. (26 October 2008). "Ngapartji Ngapartji". ABC Radio National Artworks presented by Amanda Smith.
  21. (3 December 2012). "The Namatjira Project". artsHub announcement of award winners.
  22. (December 2012). "Helpmann Award Winners".
  23. (2008). "Art and Safe Communities: The role of Big hART in the regeneration of an inner city housing estate". Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
  24. (2018). "Scott Rankin - Australian of the Year".
  25. "Bio of Scott Rankin on ovations.com.au".
  26. "Big hART portrait on the International Community Arts Festival homepage".
  27. "if not referenced separately, then the work is listed on this register of Rankin's works".
  28. (8 August 2007). "Les Dennis in Certified Male at the Edinburgh Festival". Telegraph by Dominic Cavendish.
  29. (24 February 2003). "Mornings with Margaret Throsby". ABC Radio presented by Margaret Throsby.
  30. (April 2010). "Aboriginal Performance: Politics, Empathy and the Question of Reciprocity". Australasian Drama Studies.
  31. (26 March 2009). "This is Living". ABC, Tim Walker.
  32. (22 August 2010). "Namatjira". [[ABC Radio National]].
  33. (2010). "Namatjira wins 2 Sydney Theatre Awards for ''Best New Australian Work'' and ''Best Newcomer''". Sydney Theatre Awards.
  34. (June 2010). "Namatjira". by Raja, Chris in: Art Monthly Australia, No. 230, pp. 53–55.
  35. (20 October 2012). "Pilbara Production Invited to Canberra Centenary". ABC, presented by Tangiora Hinaki.

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