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Thomas Duncan-Watt
Australian Screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Duncan-Watt is an Australian screenwriter and playwright.[1] He has won three AWGIE Awards[2][3][4] for his screenplays from five nominations.[5][6][7] His work on UK series Dennis & Gnasher earned the series its first BAFTA nomination.[8][9][10] In 2017, he was one of the mentors at the Arts/Screen Hackathon, along with Sarah Houbolt and others, which was organized by Australia Council for the Arts.[11] In 2021, he won the John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing for his work on the series Space Nova.[12] In 2022 his original series The Eerie Chapters of Chhaya was announced as the winner of the Kindred co-production initiative between the ABC and CBC networks.[13]
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Duncan-Watt began his career as a writer on Australian comedy series Good News Week.[14] His series credits include Dennis & Gnasher, Pirate Express, Winston Steinburger & Sir Dudley Ding-Dong,[15] Beat Bugs, Alien TV. In 2018, Duncan-Watt was brought on as one of the writers on sci-fi action series Space Nova,[16] for which he also wrote the pilot.[17] The series was subsequently nominated for two AWGIE Awards, with Duncan-Watt winning the award for his episode Ghost Station. In 2019, Duncan-Watt, and collaborator, Suren Perera won Best in Show[18][19] at the Asian Animation Summit in Seoul for their 'original concept', Escape from Pirate Asylum.[20][21] Duncan-Watt and Perera were also the first international winners of the Ottawa Animation Festival’s ‘Pitch THIS’ competition, for their original series, Owl & Cloud.[22][23][24]
Plays
Duncan-Watt is the co-creator of two comedy plays, Thank You For Being a Friend[25][26] and That Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody,[27][28] both of which use Muppets-style puppets to parody the 1980s television series The Golden Girls.[29] Thank You For Being a Friend toured Canada, where it won ‘Best Independent Theatre Production’ at the Broadway World Awards.[30] That Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody debuted in 2016 Off-Broadway. The show commenced a US tour in 2019.[31][32]
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