Stephen Gard personal and literary papers, ca. 1944-2003

MLMSS 8148

fonds

ca. 1944-2003

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Ephemera

446983

0.49 metres of textual material (3 boxes)

Stephen Gard (born in 1952) is an educational writer of fact and fiction. He has also written children's plays, resource books for teachers, and books on Australian history as well as composing music.

Stephen became interested in theatre in 1968, joining the Grosvenor Players at the Wayside Chapel. In 1970 he moved to the New Theatre in Newtown, where he continued his involvement with children's theatre. In 1977 Stephen was appointed to a one-teacher school in the South West Riverina, and he joined the Deniliquin Dramatic Club.

Amongst his musical works, Stephen has written scores for two short movies by director Chris Noonan, and as an Honours student majoring in Music Composition was the focus of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Composer Dialogue.

Stephen's aunt was Dorothy Helmrich (1889-1984), the singer and arts administrator.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
'Helmrich, Dorothy Jane Adele (1889–1984)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/helmrich-dorothy-jane-adele-12619/text22733 (accessed 12 December 2011)

Includes typescript and printed scripts, manuscript and published book, correspondence particularly with Australian theatres and publishers, and material from performances. Also includes black and white photographs.

BOX 1
Folder 1
Correspondence; newspaper clippings; manuscript music; papers and photographs from The Grosvenor Players; catalogue from the Salamanca Script Resource Centre; theatre programmes and fliers, ca. 1968-1996

Folder 2
The Big Five: a play in two acts. Includes typescript script, and correspondence with theatre companies, 1986-1987

Folder 3
A Wise Child, and You Should Have Seen us on Venus. Includes scripts, photographs, correspondence, fliers, etc., ca. 1973-1987

Folder 4
Andrea, and Play Off: a music theatre piece for children. Includes scripts, printed music, newspaper clippings, theatre tickets, and correspondence, 1983-1997

Folder 5
Ringside Seat, and O, Susanna (or Oh, Susannah). Includes script, tickets, correspondence, manuscripts, and publicity and advertising material, 1983-1993

BOX 2
Folder 1
A Brief Departure, and Introduced Species (co-written with Graham Harrington). Includes fliers, articles, scripts, and correspondence, 1981-1996

Folder 2
Fantastic Australians. Includes manuscript and published book, notes, clippings, correspondence, etc., 1993-1994

Folder 3
Photographs, programmes, fliers, correspondence, newspaper clippings etc., from Deniliquin and the Australian Writers' Theatre, ca. 1977-1991

Folder 4
Darryl the Dismal Demon's Dawning Day. Includes programmes, fliers, correspondence, script, and manuscript music, 1973-2003

BOX 3
Folders 1-2
The Celebrated. Includes scripts, correspondence, biographical information, clippings, printed music, tickets, and photographs, ca. 1984-1995

Folder 3
Collection of rejected manuscripts of novels, including Ben Hall the Bushranger, I Can't Go Back to Sleep, Rats, A Giant Leap, No-One's Bunny, The Model Family, and Ticket to Anything

Folder 4
Newspaper clipping, letter, programme, and photo relating to Stephen Gard's aunt, Dorothy Helmrich, ca. 1944-1988

Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: Stephen Gard
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Stephen Gard
Research & study copies allowed: The State Library of New South Wales has the right to reproduce and publish any work it owns by Stephen Gard. All other uses (not by State Library of New South Wales) must clear copyright with Stephen Gard.

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