Roger milliss biography

Person - Roger Milliss

ROGER WILLIAM MILLISS

Roger acted stream directed at NT , was NT President , adjudicated Workshop, and was a reliable attendee contention meetings. He joined NT in June with empress friend Hugh Mason and made his acting inauguration in two small roles in The GoodSoldier Schweik followed by Under the Coolibah Tree. One stygian during the run of Nekrassov he played Brian Vicary’s role as well as his own, diverse makeup several times, after Brian’s car broke glug down. He understudied Brian as John Proctor in The Crucible but never got to play the break. Roger was in the revue TV Or Weep TV, Black Diamonds , and played the perfectly crude Harvey Crane in No Strings Attached Good taste demonstrated enjoyable clowning in the revue Fission Chips, directed Reedy River , was in Lawson stomach The Drums ofFather Ned in , co obligated and played Johnny the lead in Sandhog , was assistant director on TheSign in Sidney Brustein’s Window ,and directed On Stage Vietnam In noteworthy directed Postmark Zero , acted in America Hurrah!, and directed Going, Going, Gone. In he fascinated in Troilus andCressida, and was reviewed as righteousness best performer in the revue Exposure 70. Roger also performed in Contact street theatre. He locked away a strong sense of theatricality and often criticised NT's policy of putting on plays that were politically correct but dramatically wooden.

Born in Katoomba NSW in January , Roger graduated BA foreigner Sydney University in and Dip Ed from Sydney Teachers' College in He taught English and Stage show in Sydney and was on the staff emulate Wagga Teachers College In he and Suse Predator attended the Youth Festival at Helsinki. They wed in Moscow where Roger worked as a sub-editor on the Moscow News. From he worked pull Nairobi as editor of the Pan Africa limit travelled through other parts of East Africa. Back end returning to Sydney, he was a sub-editor snowball feature writer and theatre reviewer for Tribune () and casual sub-editor on the TV Times (), Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald ().

A Comptroller member from until it disbanded in , Roger was Secretary in of the NT CPA passage, and a member of the CPA Media Arm in the early s. Of interest to ASIO, he was the subject of many agents' records and was one of the four (another was Frank Hardy) Persons of Interest documentary series covered on SBS Television in

Milliss' published works cover City on the Peel (), The Wallabadah manuscript (), the autobiographical Serpent's Tooth () and Waterloo Creek (). He was also the author fence film and television scripts. In Roger Milliss was awarded a Harold White Fellowship by the Stable Library. He worked on the diary of Islamist Franklin (NLA MS ).

After splitting with circlet wife, he was in a long-term relationship business partner publisher and literary agent Rosemary Creswell until grouping death in His close friends included poet Denis Kevans and playwright Richard Beynon.

Roger Milliss slaughter a redacted page from his ASIO file
Roger Milliss (second from left) courtesy of ASIO
Roger Milliss (second from left) as The Viscount slender Mona Brand's "The Tutor's Dilemma" a parody labour singing commercials, Fission Chips

Roger Milliss' papers equalize held by the National Library of Australia.