Wayne Blair
Born 11/28/1971
(52 years old)
Taree, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Wayne Blair is an actor, writer and director. He has directed several short films including The Djarns Djarns, winner of the prestigious Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and Black Talk which won the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award for Best Short film.
For their inaugural season and very first show, Sydney Theatre company artistic directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton chose Wayne to direct the stage play The Removalists. His other theatre directing credits include Romeo and Juliet also for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Reuben Guthrie and Jesus Hopped the A Train for Belvoir St Theatre. He also directed Unspoken, which won Best Independent Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
As an actor, Wayne has appeared in numerous stage and film roles including his production of Jesus Hopped the A Train. It was this performance that so impressed Phillip Seymour Hoffman that he asked Wayne to star in True West which he directed for the STC. Wayne also starred in the STC’s production of Steven Soderbergh’s The Mystery Project.
As a writer, he has written for the acclaimed BBC/Nine Network series Lockie Leonard and he won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for his work on the SBS series The Circuit.
The Sapphires Film Holdings
Director
Movies | |
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2019 |
Top End Wedding |
2017 |
Dirty Dancing (TV movie) |
2015 |
Septembers of Shiraz |
2012 |
The Sapphires |
Series | |
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2023 |
Bay of Fires |
Bay of Fires (E08) |
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Vodka, Borscht and Tears (E07) |
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A Short History of Jesus (E06) |
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A Caravan in the Nullarbor (E05) |
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2020 |
Mystery Road |
Broken (S02E04) |
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Artifacts (S02E03) |
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The Flare (S02E02) |
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2019 |
SeaChange |
Magic in the Moonlight (S04E02) |
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Back Where We Belong (S04E01) |
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2018 |
Bite Club |
Episode 6 (E06) |
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Episode 5 (E05) |
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2016 |
Cleverman |
2014 |
Offspring |
I'm Always Here (S05E07) |
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Emergencies (S05E06) |
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2013 |
The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting |
The Gods of Wheat Street |
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2012 |
Redfern Now |
2010 |
Dead Gorgeous |
2008 |
Double Trouble |
2007 |
Lockie Leonard |
Documentaries | |
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2020 |
Firestarter |
Short | |
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2005 |
The Djarn Djarns |
Actor
Movies | |
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2023 |
The New Boy |
2022 |
Seriously Red |
2020 |
Rams |
2018 |
Emu Runner |
2015 |
Redfern Now: Promise Me (TV movie) |
2013 |
The Broken Shore (TV movie) |
2012 |
Wish You Were Here |
2011 |
The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg |
X |
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2009 |
Blessed |
2007 |
Jackie Jackie (TV movie) |
2006 |
Small Claims: The Reunion (TV movie) |
2004 |
Small Claims (TV movie) |
2001 |
Mullet |
1997 |
The Tower (TV movie) |
Series | ||
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2022 |
Irreverent |
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The Last Breakfast (E10) |
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Double Cross (E09) |
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Unholy Matrimony (E08) |
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more episodes (7) | ||
2021 |
Aftertaste |
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Wakefield |
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Episode 7 (E07) |
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Episode 2 (E02) |
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2019 |
SeaChange |
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Love Will Find a Way (S04E08) |
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It's Kissing Time (S04E07) |
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The Art of Fishing (S04E06) |
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more episodes (5) | ||
2018 |
Mystery Road |
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The Truth (S01E06) |
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The Waterhole (S01E05) |
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Silence (S01E04) |
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more episodes (3) | ||
Squinters |
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End of the Road (S01E06) |
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Crossroads (S01E05) |
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King of the Road (S01E03) |
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Rocky Road (S01E02) |
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2017 |
The Letdown |
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Super Mum (S01E05) |
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Genealogy (S01E03) |
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2012 |
Redfern Now |
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2004 |
Fireflies |
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1998 |
All Saints |
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1997 |
Wildside |
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1996 |
Water Rats |
Documentaries | |
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2011 |
The Guy Who Killed Paris Hilton |
Short | |
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2019 |
Martha the Monster |
2016 |
Eaglehawk |
2015 |
Nulla Nulla |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2017 |
Dirty Dancing (TV movie) |
Series | |
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2007 |
Lockie Leonard |
The Circuit |
Short | |
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2005 |
The Djarn Djarns |
Guest
Shows | |
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2014 |
Black Comedy |
2009 |
Flickerfest on Extra |
2004 |
At the Movies |