Ray Mooney

Teacher and Writer in Bend of Islands, Australia

Ray Mooney

Teacher and Writer in Bend of Islands, Australia

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RAY MOONEY is an Australian Author, Lecturer in Creative Writing and Inspirational Speaker. His plays have been produced at The Arts Centre, Athenaeum, La Mama, Carlton Courthouse and various venues around Melbourne and Sydney. Ray's play, The Drover's Boy, 1998, was on the VCE syllabus. He established two theatre companies, Governor's Pleasure and Zap Community Theatre and has directed more than forty plays. His novel, A Green Light, was Penguin's second-best fiction seller in 1988 and regarded by many as Australia's best crime novel. In 1995 Ray wrote the screenplay Everynight Everynight with Alkinos Tsilimidos, and the film went on to win awards throughout the world and was nominated for two AFI Awards, including best adapted screenplay. Ray has written numerous film scripts short stories, newspaper and magazine articles. He wrote a non-fiction book, A Pack Of bloody Animals, co-written with John Kerr, about the Walsh Street killings and his latest book is The Ethics Of Evil - Stories of H Division, written from personal experience. He currently lectures in Screenwriting at Holmesglen Institute and the Foundation Course at the VCA Film and Television School.