Patrick Trumper

Patrick is an actor, writer, director and teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Cat Martin in Much Ado About Nothing

Acting

It’s a Dad Thing (TML Enterprises)

The Wetlands (Parramatta Riverside)

The Magic Pudding (Marian Street Theatre for Young People)

Babe the Sheep Pig (Marian Street Theatre for Young People)

Fallout

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Amadeus (Enmore Theatre, Sydney)

Twelfth Night (twice)

Shakespeare’s Queens: She-wolves and Serpents (Adelaide Fringe; Anne Hathaway’s House, Stratford; Edinburgh Fringe;  Arts Theatre, West End)

Domitila

Present Laughter

Gasping

Deathtrap

Cosi

Neighbours

King Lear (Harlos Productions)

Hamlet (Harlos Productions)

Lulu

Please Don’t Shut the Gate (Griffin)

Who Slew Reg Smedley (Lookout Theatre)

Much Ado About Nothing

The Comedy of Errors

All Saints and Home and Away (7 Network)

The Escape of the Artful Dodger (Grundy Television)

Farscape II (Starscape Prod.)

Cody (Southern Star Xanadu)

Police Rescue (Southern Star Xanadu)

Darwin’s Brave New World (Ferns Prod. / Screenworld)

On the Dead Side (dir. James M. Vernon)

El Burro (dir. Mark Lee)

The Importance of Being Earnest

Great Leaping Legends and Puppet Tears (Lamplight Theatre)

Two Big Silly Giants

The Missing  Note

Banana skins and Bruises

AA Infinity

Time and Again

Going Straight

Mjolnir

 

Directing

Rumpelstiltskin and the Case of the Disappearing Research Grants by Michele Conyngham

Puss in Boots and Other Tales by Helen Martin (co-director Rebecca Jones)

Rhapsody on a Wet Day by Michele Conyngham

Crystal Clear by Phil Young

The Train Station at the End of the Universe by Michele Conyngham

Harvey by Mary Chase

Writing

Short plays                    Short screenplays                            Articles                                                                                             Sketches

Mellow Yellow              Mẹ’s War                                          My On-again Off-again Relationship with Eggs                   Doorbell Theory

Whip                               Junkyard Opera                              Is there a Journalist in the Wall St Journal                            The Rot is Spreading

The Minotaur in the Room

Children’s book

Farnsworth’s Fabulous Frogs 

 

Links

Short Screenplays

Mẹ’s War

 

Esther tries selling off her late father’s military collection, not
realizing the importance his diary holds for certain people in his
and his wife’s past.

Image: Vietnamese Woman 1966 – Photo by Donald MacKinnon source: 170th.org/Gallery2/main.php/v/MACKINNON66/

 

 

 

Junkyard Opera

 

 

Articles on Medium.com

Is there a Journalist in the Wall Street Journal? Not if you need unbiased journalism.

 

Joseph Epstein writes in his Wall Street Journal article “Is there a Doctor in the White House? Not if you need an M.D.” that, “The Ph.D. may once have held prestige, but that has been diminished by the erosion of seriousness and the relaxation of standards in university education generally, at any rate outside the sciences.”Friends’ link: https://inigobigot.medium.com/is-there-a-journalist-in-the-wall-street-journal-not-if-you-need-e8d311680268?source=friends_link&sk=864bee011b4a552b6a0c598ced40c7ec
Image: Screenshot by Inigo Bigot

 

My On-Again, Off-Again Relationship with Eggs

So, you’ve stopped buying something you disapprove of. What would make you start buying it again?

Friends’ link: https://inigobigot.medium.com/my-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-eggs-5b81954964efsource=friends_link&sk=b7a61fe9a3905cb0eeed9efcc1d5af90

Image: Fidel’s Wellington, by Ewan Munro