John Misto

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Prolific and Multi-award Winning writerJohn
Misto
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The Biography of John Misto

• John Misto is famous and multi- award winning
  writer from Sydney, NW, who has been recognized
  for playwrights, scriptwriting and other writings
  since 1981. Misto was originally a trained lawyer
  but started writing for theater, film and
  television specially for 7-12 years.
• John Misto is an in-demand speaker and people
  always keen to listen to his talks. He has been
  exclusively comprehensive in his writings. Misto
  won an AFI Award for his script for The Day of
  the Roses, and an Australian Writers Guild
  Award. The mini-series also won a Silver Logie.
  Misto also won 4AFI awards for his other scripts
  include The Damnation of Harvey McHugh.

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The Last Frontier

• John Misto was co-writer for the mini-series, The
  Last Frontier, which was rated as the top
  mini-series, and for the highly acclaimed ABC
  series, Palace of Dreams. Both the film and the
  John's television script Heroes' Mountain won a
  Gold Plaque at the Chicago International
  Television Awards and his latest series The
  Cut has been recently aired on ABC TV. John
  Misto has written popular plays which has won him
  various awards. He has been loved by his fans for
  his fascinating and thrilling stories.His
  latest play Harp on the Willow starring Marina
  Prior had a sell-out season at Sydney's Ensemble
  Theatre and won the Rodney Seaborn Playwright's
  Award for Best New Play. His novel The Devil's
  Companions was published by Hodder Headline in
  2005. His play Sky was nominated for the Sydney
  Critics' Award for Best New Play of the Year and
  also received a commendation from the Human
  Rights Commission.

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The Shoe-Horn Sonata

• Mistos best-known work, The Shoe-Horn Sonata, is
  one of the most frequently performed plays in
  Australia. It is the story of two old ladies who
  are forced to recount their war-time experiences
  for a television documentary. The play won the
  New South Wales Premiers Literary Award and The
  Australia Remembers National Play Competition,
  ahead of 150 entries. Misto donated his 20,000
  prize to a war memorial fund. The play has been
  widely studied in schools in NSW since 1999 and
  has been reprinted 14 times.

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Peter Pompey

• Mistos film and book Peter Pompey were studied
  in primary schools throughout Australia and won
  him a Penguin award for Best TV Script. He was
  also awarded for his very popular telemovie,
  Nature Causes.John Misto is also an established
  playwright. Misto's play The Shoe-Horn Sonata It
  won both the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the
  Australia Remembers National Play Competition -
  the biggest playwriting prize ever offered in
  Australia. Misto donated this prize to the
  Australian Nurses' National Memorial Fund .

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John Mistos agent isDavid SmithSmith Jones
ManagementLevel 810 14 Waterloo
StreetSYDNEY, NSW 2010Tel [phone]Thank
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