About Janet & Sandy
Brown Fairthorne Theatre Projects is an independent Australian theatre company, established in 2009 by Janet Brown and Sandy Fairthorne to nurture and produce our own plays. Collaborating with directors, actors and other theatre workers, we create moving and memorable theatre experiences.
Janet Brown has been writing
professionally since the early 1990s and writing for theatre since 2000. “Dolly
Stainer” of Kew Cottages was presented by La Mama in 2006, produced by Soul
Theatre Inc and directed by one of Australia's most esteemed
directors, David Myles. The production was listed for VCE Theatre Studies and
the script published by Currency Press. With Joanne Ryan she co-wrote “A Hole
in the Ground”, presented by La Mama in 2004, also directed by David Myles and
supported in development by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
“One Plain, One Purl”, a winner in the 'Write Stuff Competition' 2004 was
produced by Anglesea Performing Arts Inc & Torquay Theatre Troupe in 2005.
In 2007 it was performed as a radio play.
Other scripts include “Infiltration” - a satire about a media baron who believes the personality of his kidney donor is taking over his soul; “Buying Time” - a confronting story about a young woman who meets her biological father; “Cherished” - an adaptation of Colette's tragic novellas “Cheri” and “The Last of Cheri” ; “Colette: My Mother and Her Garden” - adapted from Colette's short story “Sido” (to be presented in September 2010).
Janet's writing is published in books, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and literary journals in Australia and the USA. She is a manuscript assessor of other writers' works. She teaches writing courses and workshops and has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Victoria University.
Sandy Fairthorne studied acting at Chimera Acting School in W.A. in the 1980’s and was considering a career in acting before deciding to try her hand at scriptwriting instead. Upon graduating in Screenwriting and Editing from RMIT, she wrote and directed two comedies, winning an IF People's Choice Award for her short film, “Immaculate”. Her black comedy "Coffee and Catharsis” was also screened at the Canberra and the St Kilda Film Festival in 2001. She has written and directed two comedy pilots for television, one of which, “Love Inc”, she is now turning into a stage musical.
Since 2006 she has directed comedies and dramas for the stage, including two plays by Neil Simon and the Oscar Wilde classic “Lady Windermere’s Fan”.
In 2008 her one act play, "The Date” won "Best Original Play" and "Play with Most Audience Appeal" at the Anglesea and Kyneton One Act Play Festivals.
Current projects include "The Proposal" - a one act farce, "Veins" - a dramatic monologue about heroin addiction, and her first full length play, "Margot and Martha" - a black comedy/drama about egos and exploitation, set in the world of live-to-air day time television.
Sandy also writes for various art and health magazines, and is currently editing an historical biography set in the 1800’s.
Other scripts include “Infiltration” - a satire about a media baron who believes the personality of his kidney donor is taking over his soul; “Buying Time” - a confronting story about a young woman who meets her biological father; “Cherished” - an adaptation of Colette's tragic novellas “Cheri” and “The Last of Cheri” ; “Colette: My Mother and Her Garden” - adapted from Colette's short story “Sido” (to be presented in September 2010).
Janet's writing is published in books, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and literary journals in Australia and the USA. She is a manuscript assessor of other writers' works. She teaches writing courses and workshops and has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Victoria University.
Sandy Fairthorne studied acting at Chimera Acting School in W.A. in the 1980’s and was considering a career in acting before deciding to try her hand at scriptwriting instead. Upon graduating in Screenwriting and Editing from RMIT, she wrote and directed two comedies, winning an IF People's Choice Award for her short film, “Immaculate”. Her black comedy "Coffee and Catharsis” was also screened at the Canberra and the St Kilda Film Festival in 2001. She has written and directed two comedy pilots for television, one of which, “Love Inc”, she is now turning into a stage musical.
Since 2006 she has directed comedies and dramas for the stage, including two plays by Neil Simon and the Oscar Wilde classic “Lady Windermere’s Fan”.
In 2008 her one act play, "The Date” won "Best Original Play" and "Play with Most Audience Appeal" at the Anglesea and Kyneton One Act Play Festivals.
Current projects include "The Proposal" - a one act farce, "Veins" - a dramatic monologue about heroin addiction, and her first full length play, "Margot and Martha" - a black comedy/drama about egos and exploitation, set in the world of live-to-air day time television.
Sandy also writes for various art and health magazines, and is currently editing an historical biography set in the 1800’s.
Last Updated: 2011
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