Play & Playwright | USU Boy at the Edge

Playwright: Finegan Kruckemeyer

Finegan Kruckmeyer is an Australian playwright. He primarily writes plays for young audiences and has written over 100 plays in all. He currently resides in Tasmania with his wife and his son.

“He is committed to making strong and respectful work for children, which acknowledges them as astute audience members outside the play, and worthy subjects within" (his website).

AWARDS

2017 Mickey Miners Lifetime Achievement Award for services to international theatre for young audiences
2015 David Williamson Award for Excellence in Australian Playwriting

Watch this video and learn more about why Finnegan wrote The Boy at the Edge of Everything!

Quotes from Interviews

"Every audience deserves a palette of all the emotions I think—bring on the childhood pathos and the teenage laughter, I say."

“When you’re writing for adults because you are an adult, there is this element of writing for yourself…and that can really be a confining parameter, and make your work less interesting.”

"It’s true that most of the work I write these days is for children. But if I get too comfortable in the notion of being a children’s writer, then I fear I would find myself editing my creativity so as to create children’s stories, as opposed to just stories. And I think what child audiences deserve are stories, with as little judgment around this as possible. Then they can make their own minds up whether a particular one connected with them or not, just as an adult audience is entitled to."

The Boy at the Edge of Everything

Comissioned by the Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company in

New York, NY

First prouduced at the Seattle Children's Theatre in 2014

Workshops and Awards

Bibliography

Finegan Kruckemyer, https://finegankruckemeyer.com/. Accessed 9 November 2023.

Kruckemyer, Finegan. "Interview with Finegan Kruckemyer." Interview by Elissa Adams. HowlRound Theatre Commons, 21 May 2012, https://howlround.com/interview-finegan-kruckemeyer.

Kruckemyer, Finegan. "The Wonderful Wizard of Tas…mania: an interview with Finegan Kruckemeyer." Interview by Ben Kaye. University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Arts, 2012, https://www.play.pitt.edu/news/wonderful-wizard-tas-mania-interview-finegan-kruckemeyer.

melbtheatreco. “The Boy at the Edge of Everything Preview.” YouTube, 19 Nov. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1UDFzI0Sxk.