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Donald  Woodward

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his page displays all the shows written, composed or co-authored by Donald  Woodward and currently published by Maverick Musicals  & Plays .

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Maverick Titles

title

date

duration

productions

Grunt! A Pig of a Musical

2002

120 mins

10

Gumshoe

1996

120 mins

280

How the West Was Warped

1994

120 mins

690

Jungle Fantasy

1993

120 mins

351

Radio Active

2002

120 mins

17

Turn Around Dick

1996

120 mins

44

Wolfstock

1996

120 mins

308

Wonder In Aliceland

2000

90 mins

138

Zombied

1999

120 mins

57

Biography / Résumé

I was born in Scotland in the year the Beatles really became famous, and two years later, moved to Australia, where I spent the next 30 or so years growing up and then teaching music and theatre in Queensland schools.

My childhood music education was performing in every band and show that would take me, and at family parties around the kitchen table with a dozen or so singers, spoon players, accordionists, a banjo player and an occasional fiddler, singing and playing into the wee hours.

I studied Music and Theater Education at Kelvin Grove BCAE, and then triple majored at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, in Music History and Composition (under Bracanan and Brumby), and English Literature. I started writing musicals in 1993, and have continued a great collaboration with Mary, Simon, Jo, Jane, Ian and Gail ever since.

In 2000, I moved to the United States, where I lived in Baltimore for a time, conducting the Chesapeake and Middle River Concert Bands, before settling down in Leesburg, Virginia ( west of Washington DC). I am involved in theatre in the DC area with the Washington Rogues and Three Penney Productions, and am currently workshopping a work in progress in New York City. I am always working on one show or another, or updating midi files, or band parts or arranging something else whenever I can. Somehow, I even found the time to write this bio!

89 Bergann Rd Maleny QLD Australia 4552   |   Phone/fax: +61 7 5494 4007   |   email helen@mavmuse.com

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