John Timlin
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John Timlin is a theatre producer, literary agent and was a founding member and administrator of the Australian Performing Group. He was born in Melbourne to a businessman father who had emigrated from Ireland in 1915 and an Australian mother from Echuca who is a descendant of George Bernard Shaw.
He was schooled at Mentone Grammar School and after graduating studied politics, German, and philosophy at Monash University.
Through his association with Jack Hibberd he had an opportunity to be involved as a guarantor and administrator for The Pram Factory in 1970. Timlin took out a three year lease on a former livery, which had earlier manufactured prams and converted the building into a theatre. It's first production was 'Marvellous Melbourne' opened in November 1970. It was written by Hibberd and John Romeril, directed by Graeme Blundell and Max Gillies and included in its cast Blundell, Gillies, Kerry Dwyer, Ros Brown, Michael Christie, Meg Clancy, Damien Coleridge, Lindy Davies, Claire Dobbin, Bill Garner, Evelyn Krape, Wilfred Last, Yvonne Marini, Rod Moore and Tony Taylor.
Timlin continued to be the chief administrator for almost the entire history of the Pram Factory and was involved in a variety of roles for many of the productions, including construction, set design, producing and is credited with co-writing 'Goodbye Ted' with Hibberd and 'The Dudders' with Romeril. He was involved in the founding of an APG record label, Pram Factory Productions, and the Almost Managing Company which acted as both literary and acting agency for people involved with the APG.
After the demise of the APG in 1981, Timlin continued to work with various ex-members of the group, including producing the musical adaptation of Manning Clarke's The History of Australia. Further he continued his work as director of the Almost Managing Company. In recent years Timlin has donated much documentation regarding his work in the theatre to various museums and libraries
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References
- Blundell, G. (1997). Australian theatre: backstage with Graeme Blundell. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
- Blundell, G. (2008). The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts. Sydney: Hachette Australia.
- Parsons, P. (Ed.). (1995). A Companion to Theatre in Australia. Paddington, NSW, Australia: Currency Press.