File 08: Campion Decent interview and photograph by Martin Portus, 21 October 2021

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21 October 2021

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

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1 audio file (3 hr., 32 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
1 photograph - digital, JEPG, colour

Campion Decent is a playwright and dramaturg. He has been awarded an Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Drama Script (Embers), the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award (Unholy Ghosts) and the Best New Writing Award, Tasmanian Theatre Awards (The Campaign). Decent has also worked in a variety of arts roles, including Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre, Literary Manager at the Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival, and Festival Director for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts playwrights’ studio and holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, a Master in Arts (Theatre Studies) from the University of New South Wales, and a PhD from La Trobe University.

Martin Portus studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in the 1970s and worked as an actor in theatre and television in Sydney and Adelaide. He later worked as an arts broadcaster on ABC Radio National and returned to acting in 2011.

References:
Australian Plays Transform. "Decent, Campion". Accessed 29 January 2022. https://apt.org.au/playwright/ASC-3180
Stage Whispers. 2019. "None so blind at Sydney Fringe". Accessed 24 January 2022. https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/news/none-so-blind-sydney-fringe

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Campion Decent interview by Martin Portus, 21 October 2021

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Photograph of Campion Decent, 21 October 2021 / by Martin Portus

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
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Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales