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Title: 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 92139612Thank
you
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