Services
The following services provided by John Senczuk are available to playwrights, screen writers and other creatives seeking to develop ideas for performance; other dramaturgs are available, contacted through the Dramaturg Register.
- Script Dramaturgy (new work: drama, music theatre)
- Production Dramaturgy
- Elizabethan Drama specialist (deconstruction)
- Heritage Australian Drama specialist
- Research; rehearsal notes; program/foyer material
- Literary Management/Repertoire consultancy
- Building story and plot (for drama, musical theatre & screen)
- Analysis of ‘Story’ for screen: narrative and plot; genre and style
- Screen: Log line, Synopsis and Treatment development
- Screen: Creating pitching ‘Decks’
- Musicals: scenario, book and lyrics development
- Theatrical facilitator and influencer
John is also available to provide the following personalised services:
John has multiple commissions in both non-fiction and creative work for stage and screen; he is in demand as a commissioned writer for:
- biography
- memoir (ghost writer; extensive experience as aural historian)
- history of theatrical institutions and companies
He also provides creative work for performance on commission:
- drama; plays for young people
- musicals and cabaret
- screen plays
John is a scholar and pubished author in the following areas:
- Australian Drama and Theatre History
- History of Scenography and stagecraft in Australian
- History of Australian Theatres (including stage technologies)
- History of Australian Music Theatre
He also provides informative and dynamic lectures and seminars in these areas.
- Second volume of history of Griffin theatre company; commissioned by Chris Puplick. Griffin Redux: The Ros Horin Years 1989-2003—launched December 2021
- Third volume of history of Griffin theatre company; commissioned by Chris Puplick. Griffin Remix: 2004-2019—launched December 2021—released July 2022
- A biography of director/designer Robin Lovejoy; commissioned by The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
- A biography of actress and producer Carol Raye; commissioned by her family
- A history of the Australian Theatre for Young People; commissioned by ATYP
- The first official biography of entrepreneur James Cassius Williamson; sanctioned by Williamson’s grandson Ian Horsley
