Daniel Evans – January 14 2018

Daniel is an arts/media worker, editor, reviewer and playwright. A graduate of Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology, majoring in Interdisciplinary studies, Daniel has worked as Program Officer for the Brisbane Cabaret Festival, Co-Director of the National Young Writers’ Festival, and Performance Program Manager at Metro Arts. He currently works as the Arts Editor for Queensland’s SCENE Magazine and teaches in the Applied Theatre Department at Griffith University. He is co-founder of the performance collective, The Good Room. Daniel’s other works include Holy Guacamole (the story of a boy born with the features of an avocado) and his first play, written when he was 16, Opening a Fuzzwollop’s Frame of Mind.

Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine (published with adaptation of Morris Gleitzman’s Worry Warts)
Playlab, 2010; ISBN 9781921390043
15 minutes to 1 hour; 9 female, 2 male (roles can be doubled), plus chorus
Cast age: 8 to 12, 12 to 16; Audience age: children – adult
Meet Ivy Shambitt , “… a small and sickly girl – her face was quite a fright, For you see she had no eyes (not one!) and therefore: no sight.” The small town of Apronwood appears normal enough, if a little tired and rundown. But the people of Apronwood harbour a dark secret and they will do anything they can to keep their secret and turn their sleepy village into a thriving tourist attraction. Even if it means murder .… In this delightfully Roald Dahlesque tale, Daniel Evans warns us what happens when a community neglects its children and how the past comes back to haunt us.

Never 4 Ever (published in I Will Kiss You in Four Places)
Playlab; ISBN 9781921390098
20 minutes, 5 – 6 cast members
Cast age: 16 to 18; Audience: age young adult
Welcome to the bizarre world of a bunch of night-shift workers at Coles. Fantasy and reality are lived in equal measure as the supermarket melds into the escapist realms of Outer Space and Neverland. Never 4 Ever is an exuberant and hilarious journey through time and space, that won’t easily be forgotten.