Maree Teychenné (pron: Tay-shen-ay) New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Maree Teychenné loves to write! She enjoys writing on many different topics and issues and in many different styles: from film scripts, plays and poetry to songs, short stories, musicals and humorous works for children. Maree lives on beautiful Jervis Bay, New South Wales. She writes full-time and has won many awards - state, national and international - for her work. Film & TV: Maree worked for many years as a script writer, editor and researcher with the Victorian Education Department’s Film Unit (1974-82). The 16 mm documentaries written at this time include A Zoo in the Trees (screened on Channel 7, at the Melbourne Film Festival and several Village cinemas); the three-part Alan Marshall - Author and Man (Part Two screened on Channel 7) and Our Fragile Coast (Finalist in The Australian Writers' Guild Documentary Script Award). During this time she also wrote several episodes of Prisoner and Starting Out for television and worked as an honorary Probation Officer. Short Stories: Many of Maree’s short stories have been published in Australian anthologies and newspapers and translated for German and Russian anthologies. They include The Wisdom Of Getting (First Prize in the Melbourne Sun Short Story competition’s Under-25 category), Frozen Fires (commissioned by The Sun) and The Last Hit (First Prize in both The Sun’s Under-30 and Open categories). The Wisdom Of Getting, translated as The Beginning of Wisdom, was read in German by Abak Safai-Rad on Radio hr2 (Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt) in 2007. It was also published in Erkundungen 31 Australische Erzahler (Verlag Volk and Welt, Berlin) and in Australia Today: Short Stories (Moscow Publications). Maree’s mini essay on writing, Endless Plus Endless, has just been published in the anthology back eyes poetry (Earlyworks Press, UK) and in Bylines 2010 Writers’ Desk Calendar (Missouri, USA). Poetry: Maree’s poetry has been published in nine anthologies in the UK, New Zealand and Australia - works such as Treacle & Stars (Third Prize in the second BraVado International Poetry Competition, New Zealand), Remember Them - Gallipoli (Poppy Fields 2007 anthology on War, UK) and I’d Like to See Much Less Of Me! (A Time to Rhyme poetry anthology, UK). Satire & Performance: Maree enjoys writing satirical monologues for her stage characters Sister Maria Angelica and Tuppence Haypni, especially the latter’s Annual Report on the World, and loves performing them at Festivals of Sedition and celebrations for International Women’s Day. Plays: Maree’s one-act black comedy, Staff Only, was a Finalist in the 2009 Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition in New Orleans. It was read recently by the Illawarra Performance Writers’ Group at the South Coast Writers’ Centre, Wollongong. Her play Hot Ice, directed by Luke Berman, was commissioned and performed by the Wollongong Workshop Theatre for its masterclass edition of Workshorts 2009, a season of one-act plays. Street City, a two-act play for young actors, was commissioned and performed by The Bay & Basin Youth Theatre in NSW and has recently been adapted into a musical. Her one-act play, Anyone Remember Nigel Bone (First Prize in the National Union of Australian University Students Playwriting Competition) was premiered at the University of Melbourne and ran for a short season. Writers’ Groups: Maree was the founder of Imago Writers which she co-ordinated for nine years in Victoria and the co-founder, with author Frank Hardy, of Carringbush Writers. For many years, she co-sponsored the K & M Teychenné Short Story awards in association with the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers. Lyrics & Libretti: For the past 18 years, Maree has collaborated as lyricist & librettist with composer/conductor, Dr Steven Capaldo, music education lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Their projects together include choral works that are wide-ranging in style and topic: from the simplicity of children’s songs such as Crimson is … and If a Lamington Could Skate (Top 25 in the Children’s category, Australian Songwriting Competition 2009) to the free-spirited Eagle of the Wind (performed by the VIVA Choirs in Canada). From the anti-war statement Collage to the poignant folk-song A Pretty Silk Flower (Semi-Finalist in the UK Songwriting Competition and Short-Listed in the Australian Songwriting Competition) to the turbulent White Man’s Law on the white invasion of Australia. Maree and Steven’s music drama, On Christmas Eve, was a Finalist in the third Short, Sweet + Song international competition, 2009. Directed by Damien Noyce, it premiered at the Pilgrim Theatre in Sydney. Their avant-garde music drama Vincent of the Fields, based on Maree’s Highly-Commended short story Letter from a Dutch Peasant, was a Finalist in the first Short, Sweet + Song international competition in Sydney. Directed by Dutch theatre director Maarten Mourik, it premiered at NIDA in 2007. Their musical, Street City, is currently being assessed by two theatres in the USA –MusicalFare Theatre (New York) and The Academy for New Musical Theatre (North Hollywood). Two more musicals are planned for the future - Goanna Bar and Hedley & Teckles. Future Projects: A final polish of the film script On Windy Spring Nights for screenplay competitions overseas; completion of Tricky Words Books 1-3; completion of lyrics for John, the life and murder of John Lennon; the writing of the children’s musical Stumblebum! and the one-act play The Happy Medium and the adaptation of Street City into a feature-film musical. Qualifications: Maree has a Bachelor of Music (DipEd) - piano major and cello second study - from the University of Melbourne (1972). Awards & Nominations 2009 Finalist Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition, New Orleans, USA For the black comedy Staff Only Finalist Short, Sweet + Song International Competition, Sydney For the music drama On Christmas Eve Top 25 Australian Songwriting Competition (ASA) For If a Lamington Could Skate (Children’s Category) Semi-finalist UK Songwriting Competition For Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! (Open category) Semi-finalist UK Songwriting Competition For Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! (Lyrics Only category) 2008 Semi-finalist UK Songwriting Competition For A Pretty Silk Flower (Folk Song category) Short-listed Australian Songwriting Competition (ASA) For A Pretty Silk Flower (Folk Acoustic category) 2007 Finalist Short, Sweet + Song International Competition, Sydney For the music drama Vincent of the Fields Semi-finalist UK Songwriting Competition For A Pretty Silk Flower (Lyrics Only category) Commended Escape ArtFest Songwriting Competition, Southern Shoalhaven For the song Eagle of the Wind (Open Section) 2005 Third Prize 2nd BraVado International Poetry Competition, New Zealand For the poem Treacle & Stars Grand Archer Poetry Mug Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, NSW For the performance reading of The Strings of Betty 2004 NSW State Award For Services to Mental Health Creative Writing classes 1992 First Short List Australian National Playwrights' Conference, Canberra For the play Under Pittslind 1991 First Short List Australian National Playwrights' Conference, Canberra For the black comedy Staff Only 1985 Highly Commended Caltex-Bendigo Advertiser Biennial Literary Awards, Victoria For the short story Letter from a Dutch Peasant 1981 Finalist Australian Writers' Guild Documentary Script Award For the film script Our Fragile Coast 1979 First Prize $1,000 Open Award The Sun Short Story Competition, Melbourne For the co-written short story The Last Hit First Prize Under-30 Award The Sun Short Story Competition, Melbourne For the co-written short story The Last Hit 1973 Young Writer’s Fellowship Commonwealth Literary Fund To write the two-act play The Scavengers 1972 First Prize Under-25 Award The Sun Short Story Competition, Melbourne For the short story The Wisdom of Getting 1971 Second Prize National Union of Australian University Students Short Story Competition For the short story What the Earthworm Saw Two of Three Awards National Union of Australian University Students Film Script Competition For the film scripts Onion of Man's Desire and Wilderness 1970 First Prize National Union of Australian University Students Playwriting Competition For the one-act play Anyone Remember Nigel Bone 1969 Highly Recommended National Union of Australian University Students Playwriting Competition For the one-act play And the Rope Walker Fell Recent Publications 2009 Endless Plus Endless Published in back eyes poetry Poetry and flash fiction anthology. (Earlyworks Press, UK) Published in Bylines 2010 Writers’ Desk Calendar Weekly desk calendar for and about writers. (Missouri, USA) Bare Trees Published in Seasonal Gifts & Nature’s Glories Poetry anthology. (Forward Press, UK) Published in Positive Words Literary magazine. (Rainbow Press, Victoria) Henry and Kimba Published in Crazy For Creatures Poetry anthology on animals. (Forward Press, UK) My Friend Ben Published in Tides of Life Poetry anthology. (Forward Press, UK) 2007 Sister Veronica Tried the Harmonica Published in A Pocketful of Fun Children’s poetry anthology. (Anchor Books, UK) I’d Like to See Much Less Of Me! Published in A Time to Rhyme Poetry anthology. (Anchor Books, UK) Gimme an Aussie Chrissy Do! Published in Goodwill To All Men Christmas poetry anthology. (Anchor Books, UK) 2006 Remember Them - Gallipoli Published in Poppy Fields 2007 Poetry anthology on war. (Poetry Now, UK) 2005 Treacle & Stars Published in BraVado 5 Literary magazine. (Bravado, New Zealand)
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