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Yve Blake

Yve Blake

Australian theatre writer

Yve Blake is an Australian screenwriter, songwriter, and playwright. She wrote the musical FANGIRLS.

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Career

Yve Blake was born in Sydney, Australia, and as a teenager took drama classes at Australian Theatre for Young People. After moving to England to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, Blake dropped out and developed her play Sugar Sugar as part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Playwright's program. The play had its Australian premiere in Melbourne in 2014.[1] That year, her next play Then sold-out at London's Vault Festival,[2] and she returned to the Vault in 2015 with Lie Collector, a musical comedy.[3] Then was later performed in Australia by the Australian Theatre for Young People.[1]

In 2019, Blake premiered her musical FANGIRLS (stylised in all uppercase) at Queensland Theatre. The musical won the 2019 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Mainstage Musical, the Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, the 2020 AWGIE Award for Music Theatre,[4] and was recognised for New Australian Writing for Music theatre at 2022's Green Room Awards.[5]

Productions

  • Prince Willy (2012)[6]
  • Am I Good Friend? (2012)[7]
  • The Finish Line (2013)
  • Moreish (2013)
  • Sugar Sugar (2014)
  • Then (2014)
  • Lie Collector (2015)
  • FANGIRLS (2019)

References

  1. [1]
    Blake, Elissa (2015-05-22). "Yve Blake: from Australian Theatre for Young People to world domination". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  2. [2]
    Carroll, Lisa (2014-03-01). "Review: Then, Vault Festival". A Younger Theatre. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  3. [3]
    Moore, William (2015-01-21). "Tunnel vision: musical comedian Yve Blake on her new show Lie". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. [4]
    "FANGIRLS Q&A with Yve Blake". Arts Centre, Melbourne. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  5. [5]
    Kaufmann, Michael (12 July 2022). "2022 Green Room Awards announced". Limelight. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  6. [6]
    "Walk on the Wild Side". Country Arts. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  7. [7]
    "Yve Blake". PBJ Management. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
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