Finegan Kruckemeyer

Finegan Kruckemeyer (born 1981) is an Australian playwright.

Early life Kruckemeyer was born in 1981 in Cork, Ireland, of a German father and Irish mother. The family moved to Adelaide, South Australia when Finegan was eight years old, and he attended Unley Primary School and Glenunga High School and became involved with Unley Youth Theatre.

Career Kruckemeyer honed his skills working with Independent Theatre and Brink Productions in Adelaide, before moving to Tasmania in his mid-twenties to pursue a career as a playwright. and at venues including the Sydney Opera House (six works), New York’s New Victory Theater (three works), Edinburgh’s Imaginate Festival (three works), Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, Shanghai’s Malan Flower Theatre and DC’s Kennedy Center.

Recognition and awards Kruckemeyer was awarded the Colin Thiele Scholarship for Creative Writing in 2002, the Jill Blewett's Playwright's Award in 2006, and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award in 2010.

In 2012, he won the Helpmann Award for Children's Theatre, and he has received seven AWGIE Awards. ).

Other roles Finegan has been a speaker at the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, the Edinburgh International Children’s Theatre Festival (Scotland), TYA USA National Conference, and the ITYARN Conference (Argentina), among others. He has delivered papers or sat on panels at conferences/festivals in nine countries, with papers published.

Works

Plays

Novels

The End and Everything Before It