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Scott Rankin

January 31, 2023

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[1] 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 in Sydney Harbour for 21 years.[2][3]

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.[citation needed]

Work

As creative director of Big hART and as playwright and director,[4] Rankin has created or collaborated on many large-scale Australian stage productions: Namatjira for the Namatjira family;[5] Ngapartji Ngapartji for Trevor Jamieson,[6][7][8] Box the Pony for Leah Purcell;[9][10] RiverlanD for Wesley Enoch;[11] StickybrickS for the Northcott Public Housing community in Surry Hills, Sydney;[12] Junk Theory for the Sutherland Shire,[13] as well as internationally touring works such as Certified Male.[14]

Recognition

Rankin is a Fellow of the Australia Council for the Arts.[15]

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

His works have been included in many arts festivals, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Edinburgh, and the Tasmanian Ten Days on the Island Festival. He has also toured to Sweden, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany[25] and the Netherlands.[26]

List of works

List of Rankin's works (in reverse chronological order):[27]

  • Hipbone Sticking Out (forthcoming 2013)[28]
  • Namatjira (2010),[29][30][31]
  • Beat Bop Road (2009)
  • This is Living (2009)[32]
  • Nyuntu Ngali (2009)
  • Ngapartji Ngapartji (2008)[33]
  • StickybrickS (2007)
  • Brave Men Run in Our Family (2007)
  • Junk Theory (2007)
  • Riverland (2004)
  • Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn (2003)[34]
  • What the World Needs Now (2002)
  • Career Highlights of the Mamu (2002)
  • Leaves Falling at Midnight (2001)
  • Certified Male (1999)[35]
  • Pumping Irony (1999)
  • Pandora's Shed (1998)
  • Box the Pony (1997)
  • Glynn Nicholas Group – Wrung Out (1996)
  • Three Men Walk into a Bar (1996)
  • Girl / Pandora Slams the Lid (1994)
  • Pandora Slams the Lid (1993)
  • Girl
  • Kissing Frogs (1991)
  • Glynn With a Why? (1988)

References

  1. ^ "Rankin, Scott, 1959–", National Library of Australia
  2. ^ "Treasure is one man's junk". The Australian. 28 February 2008.
  3. ^ Lehman, Ros (15 November 2017). "Big hART: 25 years of making art with people at its heart". ABC News.
  4. ^ "World Arts Summit – Outside the Comfort Zone". ABC Arts. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2012. ...Scott Rankin from Big hART, Australia's leading arts and social change company
  5. ^ "Namatjira". Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes. August 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2012. Namatjira, which opened last week at the Malthouse after a ... Sydney season at Belvoir St, plays authenticity against truthfulness. ... Namatjira, written and directed by Scott Rankin, is a supple mediation between the artifice of theatre ... and the realities that the story of Namatjira reveals...
  6. ^ Rankin, Scott (2012). "Namatjira, written for the Namatjira Family (Aranda) and Ngapartji Ngapartji written for Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara)". Currency Press. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Ngapartji Ngapartji". Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Dunn. 1 November 2006. Retrieved 10 December 2012. ...Ngapartji Ngapartji, a performance at the Sydney Opera House that tells the story of the Spinifex or Pitjantjatjara tribe of Central Australia and their encounter with atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s.
  8. ^ "Canberra Theatre Centre Announcement". Canberra Theatre Centre. 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2012. Ngapartji Ngapartji one is a Centenary of Canberra project, proudly supported by the ACT Government and the Australian Government
  9. ^ Rankin, Scott; et al. (1999). "Box the Pony". Hodder Headline. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  10. ^ Coates, Donna (2000). "Siting the Other: Revisions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama". Marc Maufort and Franka Ballarsi in: Theatre Research in Canada. Retrieved 10 December 2012. Helen Thomson's informative and cogently argued essay, "Aboriginal Women's Staged Autobiography", for example, introduces a number of brave new works: Jane Harrison's Stolen; Deborah Mailman's The Seven Stages of Grieving (with Wesley Enoch); Leah Purcell's Box the Pony (with Scott Rankin); Deborah Cheetham's White Baptist Abba Fan; and Ningali Langford's Ningali. Representing the most marginalized of all social groups in Australia, these women have recently created and performed autobiographical shows that document their experiences as victims of the Stolen Generation.
  11. ^ "Adelaide Festival 2004: RiverlanD". Real Time Arts. 2000. Retrieved 10 December 2012. RiverlanD (director Wesley Enoch, writer Scott Rankin, design Richard Roberts)
  12. ^ "900 Neighbours" (PDF). Atom. 2006. Retrieved 7 January 2013. Scott Rankin, creative director of StickybrickS
  13. ^ Rosemary Sorensen (27 February 2008). "Treasure is one man's junk". The Australian. Retrieved 28 October 2020. On the River Torrens, Rankin has moored a Chinese junk, the sails of which reflect images put together by 100 people who live in the Sutherland Shire, around Cronulla in Sydney.
  14. ^ "National Library of Australia entry". 1999. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  15. ^ "Bio of Scott Rankin on Australianplays.org". Australianplays.org. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  16. ^ a b c d e . Regional Arts New South Wales. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012.
  17. ^ "2011 Award Nominations Greenroom.com.au". Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  18. ^ "Measure of Belvoir's success confirmed with top prize from theatre critics". Sydney Morning Herald, Clare Morgan. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  19. ^ "Sydney Theatre Award Nominees". Troy Dodds/Aussie Theatre. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  20. ^ "Ngapartji Ngapartji". ABC Radio National Artworks presented by Amanda Smith. 26 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  21. ^ "The Namatjira Project". artsHub announcement of award winners. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  22. ^ . December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  23. ^ Coggan, Carolyn; Saunders, Christopher; Grenot, Dominic (2008). "Art and Safe Communities: The role of Big hART in the regeneration of an inner city housing estate". Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 19 (1): 4–9. doi:10.1071/he08004. PMID 18481925.
  24. ^ . Australian of the Year. 2018. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  25. ^ "Bio of Scott Rankin on ovations.com.au". Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  26. ^ "Big hART portrait on the International Community Arts Festival homepage". Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  27. ^ "if not referenced separately, then the work is listed on this register of Rankin's works". Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  28. ^ "Pilbara Production Invited to Canberra Centenary". ABC, presented by Tangiora Hinaki. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  29. ^ "Namatjira". ABC Radio National. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  30. ^ "Namatjira wins 2 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Australian Work and Best Newcomer". Sydney Theatre Awards. 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  31. ^ "Namatjira". by Raja, Chris in: Art Monthly Australia, No. 230, pp. 53–55. June 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  32. ^ "This is Living". ABC, Tim Walker. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2012. The Scott Rankin written and directed piece is being debuted in Tasmania as a part of the biennial festival Ten Days on The Island.
  33. ^ Grehan, Helena (April 2010). "Aboriginal Performance: Politics, Empathy and the Question of Reciprocity". Australasian Drama Studies (56): 38–52. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  34. ^ "Mornings with Margaret Throsby". ABC Radio presented by Margaret Throsby. 24 February 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2012. Scott Rankin, Artistic Director of Big hART – His latest production "Beasty Grrrl" begins a season at the Melbourne Festival 16th October
  35. ^ "Les Dennis in Certified Male at the Edinburgh Festival". Telegraph by Dominic Cavendish. London. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2012. Scott Rankin and Glynn Nicholas's show, which was initially put on in Australia, digs deep into the wounded recesses of the modern male psyche, but it does so with the lightest of touches.

Further reading

  • Albert, Jane: "The Rankin File (Interview with playwright, Scott Rankin)", in: The Australian, 1–2 February 2003, pp. 16–17.
  • McKone, Frank (15 November 2018). "Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive". Canberra Critics Circle.
  • Rankin, Scott & Nicholas, Glynn: Certified Male: Let's Face It...Men Are Funny Buggers: Songs & Highlights from the Hit Show, sound recording, Balaclava: Art Cackle & Hoot, 2000.
  • Rankin, Scott: Namatjira: Written for the Namatjira Family (Aranda); and, Ngapartji Ngapartji: Written for Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara), Strawberry Hills: Currency Press, 2012.
  • Rankin, Scott: "DIY Virtuosity Versus Professional Mediocrity", in: Australasian Drama Studies, (52) April 2008, p. 97–112.

External links

  • Official website

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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 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Work 3 Recognition 4 List of works 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksEarly life and education EditRankin was born in 1959 1 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 in Sydney Harbour for 21 years 2 3 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 citation needed Work EditAs creative director of Big hART and as playwright and director 4 Rankin has created or collaborated on many large scale Australian stage productions Namatjira for the Namatjira family 5 Ngapartji Ngapartji for Trevor Jamieson 6 7 8 Box the Pony for Leah Purcell 9 10 RiverlanD for Wesley Enoch 11 StickybrickS for the Northcott Public Housing community in Surry Hills Sydney 12 Junk Theory for the Sutherland Shire 13 as well as internationally touring works such as Certified Male 14 Recognition EditRankin is a Fellow of the Australia Council for the Arts 15 Rankin and his theatre works have received many awards including 2000 Human Rights Award 16 2000 New South Wales Premier s Literary Award for Box the Pony 16 2000 Queensland Premier s Literary Award for Box the Pony lt 16 2002 Ros Bower Award for Community Cultural Development 16 2004 Three Melbourne Green Room Awards for Beasty Girl most innovative work best female actor in leading role Leah Purcell best direction 16 Two Green Room Award Nominations for Namatjira best production and best actor Trevor Jamieson 17 Two Sydney Theatre Critics Awards best new Australian work and best newcomer Derik Lynch 18 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 19 Deadly Award most outstanding achievement in film TV or theatre 20 Critics Choice ArtsHub Award 21 Helpmann Award 22 World Health Organization Award for Safe Communities 23 2018 Tasmanian state recipient Australian of the Year 24 His works have been included in many arts festivals including Melbourne Adelaide Perth Brisbane Sydney Edinburgh and the Tasmanian Ten Days on the Island Festival He has also toured to Sweden Iceland Ireland Scotland England South Africa New Zealand Germany 25 and the Netherlands 26 List of works EditThis article contains a list that has not been sorted Specifically it does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works often though not always due to being in reverse chronological order See Help Sorting for more information Please improve this article if you can October 2020 List of Rankin s works in reverse chronological order 27 Hipbone Sticking Out forthcoming 2013 28 Namatjira 2010 29 30 31 Beat Bop Road 2009 This is Living 2009 32 Nyuntu Ngali 2009 Ngapartji Ngapartji 2008 33 StickybrickS 2007 Brave Men Run in Our Family 2007 Junk Theory 2007 Riverland 2004 Beasty Girl The Secret Life of Errol Flynn 2003 34 What the World Needs Now 2002 Career Highlights of the Mamu 2002 Leaves Falling at Midnight 2001 Certified Male 1999 35 Pumping Irony 1999 Pandora s Shed 1998 Box the Pony 1997 Glynn Nicholas Group Wrung Out 1996 Three Men Walk into a Bar 1996 Girl Pandora Slams the Lid 1994 Pandora Slams the Lid 1993 Girl Kissing Frogs 1991 Glynn With a Why 1988 References Edit Rankin Scott 1959 National Library of Australia Treasure is one man s junk The Australian 28 February 2008 Lehman Ros 15 November 2017 Big hART 25 years of making art with people at its heart ABC News World Arts Summit Outside the Comfort Zone ABC Arts 9 November 2011 Retrieved 15 December 2012 Scott Rankin from Big hART Australia s leading arts and social change company Namatjira Alison Croggon Theatre Notes August 2011 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Namatjira which opened last week at the Malthouse after a Sydney season at Belvoir St plays authenticity against truthfulness Namatjira written and directed by Scott Rankin is a supple mediation between the artifice of theatre and the realities that the story of Namatjira reveals Rankin Scott 2012 Namatjira written for the Namatjira Family Aranda and Ngapartji Ngapartji written for Trevor Jamieson Pitjantjatjara Currency Press Retrieved 15 December 2012 Ngapartji Ngapartji Sydney Morning Herald Emily Dunn 1 November 2006 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Ngapartji Ngapartji a performance at the Sydney Opera House that tells the story of the Spinifex or Pitjantjatjara tribe of Central Australia and their encounter with atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s Canberra Theatre Centre Announcement Canberra Theatre Centre 2012 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Ngapartji Ngapartji one is a Centenary of Canberra project proudly supported by the ACT Government and the Australian Government Rankin Scott et al 1999 Box the Pony Hodder Headline Retrieved 17 December 2012 Coates Donna 2000 Siting the Other Revisions of Marginality in Australian and English Canadian Drama Marc Maufort and Franka Ballarsi in Theatre Research in Canada Retrieved 10 December 2012 Helen Thomson s informative and cogently argued essay Aboriginal Women s Staged Autobiography for example introduces a number of brave new works Jane Harrison s Stolen Deborah Mailman s The Seven Stages of Grieving with Wesley Enoch Leah Purcell s Box the Pony with Scott Rankin Deborah Cheetham s White Baptist Abba Fan and Ningali Langford s Ningali Representing the most marginalized of all social groups in Australia these women have recently created and performed autobiographical shows that document their experiences as victims of the Stolen Generation Adelaide Festival 2004 RiverlanD Real Time Arts 2000 Retrieved 10 December 2012 RiverlanD director Wesley Enoch writer Scott Rankin design Richard Roberts 900 Neighbours PDF Atom 2006 Retrieved 7 January 2013 Scott Rankin creative director of StickybrickS Rosemary Sorensen 27 February 2008 Treasure is one man s junk The Australian Retrieved 28 October 2020 On the River Torrens Rankin has moored a Chinese junk the sails of which reflect images put together by 100 people who live in the Sutherland Shire around Cronulla in Sydney National Library of Australia entry 1999 Retrieved 3 December 2012 Bio of Scott Rankin on Australianplays org Australianplays org Retrieved 17 December 2012 a b c d e What Do We Reckon Measuring the Cultural Economic and Social Impacts of Arts Activities in Australia Forum Regional Arts New South Wales Archived from the original on 24 March 2012 2011 Award Nominations Greenroom com au Retrieved 10 December 2012 Measure of Belvoir s success confirmed with top prize from theatre critics Sydney Morning Herald Clare Morgan 18 January 2011 Retrieved 17 December 2012 Sydney Theatre Award Nominees Troy Dodds Aussie Theatre 16 December 2010 Retrieved 17 December 2012 Ngapartji Ngapartji ABC Radio National Artworks presented by Amanda Smith 26 October 2008 Retrieved 17 December 2012 The Namatjira Project artsHub announcement of award winners 3 December 2012 Retrieved 12 December 2012 Helpmann Award Winners December 2012 Archived from the original on 9 April 2013 Retrieved 12 December 2012 Coggan Carolyn Saunders Christopher Grenot Dominic 2008 Art and Safe Communities The role of Big hART in the regeneration of an inner city housing estate Health Promotion Journal of Australia 19 1 4 9 doi 10 1071 he08004 PMID 18481925 Scott Rankin Australian of the Year Australian of the Year 2018 Archived from the original on 17 April 2021 Retrieved 8 December 2022 Bio of Scott Rankin on ovations com au Retrieved 17 December 2012 Big hART portrait on the International Community Arts Festival homepage Retrieved 17 December 2012 if not referenced separately then the work is listed on this register of Rankin s works Retrieved 17 December 2012 Pilbara Production Invited to Canberra Centenary ABC presented by Tangiora Hinaki 20 October 2012 Retrieved 20 November 2012 Namatjira ABC Radio National 22 August 2010 Retrieved 17 December 2012 Namatjira wins 2 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Australian Work and Best Newcomer Sydney Theatre Awards 2010 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Namatjira by Raja Chris in Art Monthly Australia No 230 pp 53 55 June 2010 Retrieved 10 December 2012 This is Living ABC Tim Walker 26 March 2009 Retrieved 19 November 2012 The Scott Rankin written and directed piece is being debuted in Tasmania as a part of the biennial festival Ten Days on The Island Grehan Helena April 2010 Aboriginal Performance Politics Empathy and the Question of Reciprocity Australasian Drama Studies 56 38 52 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Mornings with Margaret Throsby ABC Radio presented by Margaret Throsby 24 February 2003 Retrieved 10 December 2012 Scott Rankin Artistic Director of Big hART His latest production Beasty Grrrl begins a season at the Melbourne Festival 16th October Les Dennis in Certified Male at the Edinburgh Festival Telegraph by Dominic Cavendish London 8 August 2007 Retrieved 17 December 2012 Scott Rankin and Glynn Nicholas s show which was initially put on in Australia digs deep into the wounded recesses of the modern male psyche but it does so with the lightest of touches Further reading EditAlbert Jane The Rankin File Interview with playwright Scott Rankin in The Australian 1 2 February 2003 pp 16 17 McKone Frank 15 November 2018 Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive Canberra Critics Circle Rankin Scott amp Nicholas Glynn Certified Male Let s Face It Men Are Funny Buggers Songs amp Highlights from the Hit Show sound recording Balaclava Art Cackle amp Hoot 2000 Rankin Scott Namatjira Written for the Namatjira Family Aranda and Ngapartji Ngapartji Written for Trevor Jamieson Pitjantjatjara Strawberry Hills Currency Press 2012 Rankin Scott DIY Virtuosity Versus Professional Mediocrity in Australasian Drama Studies 52 April 2008 p 97 112 External links EditOfficial websitePortals Biography Theatre Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Scott Rankin amp oldid 1132116838, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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