Joanna Murray-Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joanna Murray-Smith
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Apr 17, 1962(1962-04-17)
Age	62
Birthplace	Mount Eliza
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aries

Joanna Murray-Smith Biography

Joanna Murray-Smith is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on April 17, 1962 in Mount Eliza, Australia. Murray-Smith is a native of Mount Eliza, Victoria; her father was the editor of literary journals and professor Stephen Murray-Smith (1922-1988). Murray-Smith attended Toorak College and graduated with an BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. As a recipient of an Rotary International Scholarship in 1995, Murray Smith took part in an writing course located at Columbia University, New York. She graduated in 2003 and was on an sabbatical in Italy. She is married to her husband Raymond Gill and has two daughters and two sons.

The Female of the Species is a play based on the events of the story of Germaine Greer, premiered at the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre in July of 2008, produced by Roger Michell and starring Eileen Atkins. The Broadway production originally scheduled for 2008 and starring Annette Bening was postponed. It was nominated as Best New Comedy in the 2009 Olivier Awards. Between February and March 2010 the play was performed on stage at Geffen Playhouse. Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles with David Arquette and Bening. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wrote about the play: “The Female of the Species is not just antifeminist. In its depiction of women as variously pompous, deluded, self-obsessed, hypocritical, sexually obsequious or just plain crazy, it comes closer to being antifemale.”

Murray-Smith’s 2010 one-woman play written for Bernadette Robinson, Songs for Nobodies, opened immediately after Switzerland at the same theatre in January 2019 and marked Robinson’s West End debut. The show was nominated for an Olivier award. Songs for Nobodies has toured Australian cities starring Robinson three times since its 2010 premiere production. The play’s first production featuring another performer in the role was in New Zealand in 2017 and 2018 when Ali Harper performed the play. Its US premiere at Milwaukee Rep in 2018 starred Bethany Thomas who will perform the role at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago in May 2020.

Switzerland was commissioned by the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles but by arrangement with the Sydney Theatre Company artistic directors Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett had its world premiere production at the Sydney Theatre Company starring Sarah Peirse as Patricia Highsmith in 2014. A new production of Switzerland was produced at the Geffen Theatre in 2015 directed by Mark Brokaw and starred Laura Linney in the Highsmith role. The play was also produced at the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Black Swan Theatre, Perth. It has been produced in numerous productions in Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. In 2019 it played an off-Broadway season at 59E59 Theaters in New York City. Its UK premiere was in 2018 at the Theatre Royal, Bath, starring Phyllis Logan as Highsmith. The production moved to the West End in November 2018 at the Ambassadors Theatre.

In 2000, she received the Commonwealth Medal for Services to Playwriting and in 2012, she was named a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at Melbourne’s University of Melbourne.

Joanna Murray-Smith Net Worth

Joanna Murray-Smith is one of the richest Author from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joanna Murray-Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is a Melbourne living in Melbourne. Australian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, librettist, and newspaper columnist.

Honour was first created in 1995 while Murray-Smith was enrolled within the program of writing of Columbia University in New York. The first public appearance was the form of a reading that included Meryl Streep Sam Waterston and Kyra Sedgwick. The play then was presented in the Belasco Theatre on Broadway in 1998, with Jane Alexander, Robert Foxworth, Laura Linney and Enid Graham and it was a success, earning Tony Award nominations for Alexander and Graham. The play was staged in the London’s Royal National Theatre with Eileen Atkins who was awarded best actress at the Laurence Olivier Awards for the part. The first West End production took place at the Wyndham’s Theater in 2006 and featured Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Natascha McElhone. The show was revived in London in the year 2018 on Park Theatre. Park Theatre starring Henry Goodman and Imogen Stubbs as the leading parts.

Scenes from a Marriage was performed in January 2008 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Iain Glen and Imogen Stubbs. Nunn recast the production for its West End season at the St James Theatre in 2013. Olivia Williams and Mark Bazeley played the warring couple. The adaptation was produced in Australia at Queensland Theatre in 2017 starring Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear.

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