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Barbara Vernon (writer)

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Barbara Mary Vernon (25 July 1916 – 16 April 1978) was an Australian playwright, screenwriter and radio announcer. Her plays include The Multi-Coloured Umbrella. She was the headwriter and script editor of the TV drama series Bellbird^[1]

Biography

Vernon was born in 1916, the youngest child of four to medical practitioner Murray Menzies Vernon and Constance Emma Elliot (née Barling). She attended the New England School in Armidale, New South Wales , before entering the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1943, rising to rank of Corporal, before being discharged in 1946. She joined radio the Northern Broadcasters radio station radio 2NZ. Vernon started to write plays because she was involved with amateur drama and they could not afford to pay for the copyright of plays.^[1]

Her first play was "Naked Possum" in 1956, staged by Dame Doris Fitton, her second professionally performed play was the award winning "The Multi-Coloured Umbrella" and this was the first Australian play broadcast by Australian television. She retired in 1976 and died from a cardio in Darlinghurst, New South Wales on 16 April, 1978 at St Vincents Hospital aged 61^[1]

Select Works

The Passionate Pianist (1957) – adapted for TV.
The Multi-Coloured Umbrella (1958) – adapted for TV in 1958
Bellbird (1967) – head writer, script editor^[2]
The Sleeping Planet (1968) – play^[3]
Pastures of the Blue Crane (1969) (TV series) – script editor
Certain Women- contribution's as editor (unknown episodes)

References

1. ^¹²Jane Connors, 'Vernon, Barbara Mary (1916–1978)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vernon-barbara-mary-11922/text21359, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 5 June 2016.
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106973982 |title=Union Theatre star back. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=28 August 1967 |accessdate=6 June 2015 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107072887 |title=Sleeping Beauty theme in space play. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=14 January 1969 |accessdate=6 June 2015 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

External links

Barbara Vernon at AustLit
[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/227868 Barbara Vernon] at AusStage
Biography at Australian Dictionary of Biography
Production of her plays in Australia at AusStage

5 : Australian dramatists and playwrights|1916 births|1978 deaths|Anglicans|Royal Australian Air Force personnel

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