Eamon Flack

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Eamon Flack is an Australian theatre director. He is the Artistic Director of Belvoir, a theatre company in Sydney's Surry Hills.{{Cite web|url=https://belvoir.com.au/about/staff-board/|title=Staff & Board|website=belvoir.com.au|access-date=2023-05-23}}

Flack, who grew up in Darwin, Northern Territory, was encouraged towards a career in theatre by actor Bille Brown when studying at the University of Queensland, where Brown was an adjunct professor. Flack studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-glass-menagerie-at-belvoir-st-theatre-20140917-10hz39.html|title=The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre| last=Blake| first=Elissa|date=2014-09-19|work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}} Flack become Literary Manager and later Associate Director at Belvoir, before being appointed Artistic Director from 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/nov/14/eamon-flack-named-belvoir-artistic-director-from-2016|title=Eamon Flack named as Belvoir theatre's artistic director from 2016|last=Spring|first=Alexandra|date=2014-11-13|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-GB| issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/eamon-flack-appointed-new-artistic-director-of-belvoir-20141113-11lktw.html|title=Eamon Flack appointed new artistic director of Belvoir| last=Taylor| first=Andrew|date=2014-11-14|work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}

Two productions Flack directed for Belvoir have won Best Play at the Helpmann Awards, Angels in America {{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2014/nominees-and-winners/theatre/|title=2014 Nominees {{!}} Helpmann Awards|website=www.helpmannawards.com.au|language=en|access-date=2017-05-30}} in 2014 and The Glass Menagerie{{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2015/nominees-and-winners/theatre/|title=2015 Nominees {{!}} Helpmann Awards|website=www.helpmannawards.com.au|language=en|access-date=2017-05-30}} in 2015. He was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2016 for Belvoir's production of Ivanov.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Flack was credited as the associate writer of Counting and Cracking, written by S. Shakthidharan, which won both the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama at the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jan/30/counting-and-cracking-belvoir-streets-standout-hit-wins-australias-richest-literary-prize|title=Counting and Cracking: Belvoir Street's standout hit wins Australia's richest literary prize| last=Delaney| first=Brigid| date=2020-01-30| work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-01-31|language=en-GB| issn=0261-3077}} He cowrote The Jungle and the Sea with S. Shakthidharan, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama.{{Cite news |last=Heath |first=Nicola |date=2024-02-01 |title=Debut poet takes home $125,000 in prize money for a verse novel that almost wasn't published |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/victorian-prize-literature-winner-poet-grace-yee-chinese-fish/103414668 |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}