Deidre Rubenstein

Deidre Rubenstein (born 1948)[1] is an Australian television and theatre actress,as well as a dramatist and playwright well known for her performance in Australian soap operas and main stage dramatic roles. She has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award as Best Actress.

Rubenstein graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1967[2] and has worked extensively in live theatre, television, films and as a narrator of audio books. She has produced a significant body of work as a narrator of audio books and has won several awards in this field.[3]

Television Work

Rubenstein has worked in television comedies, drama, mini-series and TV movies.[4] In 1970 she appeared in an episode of Homicide. She played a guest role in Prisoner (1979–80), as terrorist Janet Dominguez. In 2004 Rubenstein played the scheming Svetlanka Ristic in the soap opera Neighbours.[4]

Films

Theatre

Rubenstein's career in the theatre includes work with several major Australian companies, including the Nimrod Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company.[5]

In 1993 she had a solo show called, What's a Girl to Do?,[6] where she performed poems written by contemporary Australian women poets.[7] It was later performed by Rubenstein at The Stables Theatre in Sydney (1994)and at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival.[8]

This show inspired her to do another solo show using work commissioned for her, work that was written to be performed live. She was awarded a Victorian Government Women Artist's Grant and commission contemporary writers to produce the performance pieces that were later and produced in a book called, Confidentially yours. The first performance was in the Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B Malthouse, Melbourne on 11 February 1998. The writers commissioned to produce the work that became Confidentially Yours were, Janis Balodis, Andrew Bowell, Nick Enright, Michael Gurr, Daniel Keene, Joanna Murray-Smith and Debra Oswald. Andrew Bowell wrote a pair of storied for the show that he later used in the script for the film Lantana.

In 2005 Rubenstein performed in Menopause the Musical, a comedy breaking down the taboos about "The Change".[9] With Caroline Gillmer, Susan-Ann Walker and Jane Clifton, Rubenstein, as "The Dubbo Housewife", explored the stereotypes and madness of that time in a woman's life.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Library Collection". Libraries Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  2. ↑ "NIDA Graduates". NIDA. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  3. ↑ "Bibliography in Louis Braille Audio Books". 30 June 2007.
  4. 1 2 "IMDb Filmography". 30 June 2007.
  5. ↑ "Deirdre Rubenstein as "The Dubbo Housewife"". 2 February 2005.
  6. ↑ "What's a Girl To Do? By Deidre Rubenstein". Playbox theatre Center General Information. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  7. ↑ Rubenstein (ed.), Deirdre (1998). Confidentially yours (Australian Drama – 20th Century). Melbourne: Currency Press, Sydney, in Association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University. p. iv. ISBN 0-86819-553-7.
  8. ↑ Rubenstein (1998). p.iv
  9. ↑ "Flushed with Success". The Age (Melbourne). 31 January 2005.
  10. ↑ "News Release: Women Artists Honoured". 6 May 1997.
  11. ↑ "Medial Release: TDK Australian Audio Book Awards celebrate 10 years of excellence". 11 November 1998.
  12. ↑ "Louis Braille Audio Award List". 30 June 2007.
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