Jonathan Dawson (24 November 1941 â€" 10 August 2013) was an
Australian academic, filmmaker, film and literary critic and
broadcaster.Jonathan Dawson was born in Melbourne. At Melbourne
University he graduated in English Honours and won awards for acting
and two One Act Playwriting Competitions (The World Record Club
Award). Published many poems and short stories and, later, as a poetry
performer.was often accompanied by guitarist Glen Tomassetti at La
Mama. His play, A Cup of Tea with Mrs Groom was performed at La Mama
directed by Graeme Blundell. He also created two of the most
successful university revues of the decade (1960s).After graduating,
Dawson joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a Trainee
Radio and TV Producer/Director and directed many radio dramas and
education programmes as well as dramas and documentaries. He left the
ABC to join Crawford Productions as a writer director on Homicide and
later Division 4. He then went on to Channel 9 in Sydney to direct The
Link Men and write for other series including Rush and The Box.He
continued to publish poetry and short stories, but left the full-time
film industry to set up the new media studies department and
screenwriting courses at the University of Canberra, leaving there to
help set up Griffith University's Foundation Year in 1975 where he
worked to create the then new screen studies and production courses
now internationally acknowledged, a series of pioneering new degree
and postgraduate programmes that have produced and mentored many of
the leading film scholars and film makers in international screen
studies today.Jonathan Dawson had two children: Patrick (born 1
February 1971) and Olivia (born 8 October 1972). He lived and wrote
full-time in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife, fashion designer and
writer, Felicity Dawson. On 10 August 2013, Dawson died after a long
battle with illness.
Australian academic, filmmaker, film and literary critic and
broadcaster.Jonathan Dawson was born in Melbourne. At Melbourne
University he graduated in English Honours and won awards for acting
and two One Act Playwriting Competitions (The World Record Club
Award). Published many poems and short stories and, later, as a poetry
performer.was often accompanied by guitarist Glen Tomassetti at La
Mama. His play, A Cup of Tea with Mrs Groom was performed at La Mama
directed by Graeme Blundell. He also created two of the most
successful university revues of the decade (1960s).After graduating,
Dawson joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a Trainee
Radio and TV Producer/Director and directed many radio dramas and
education programmes as well as dramas and documentaries. He left the
ABC to join Crawford Productions as a writer director on Homicide and
later Division 4. He then went on to Channel 9 in Sydney to direct The
Link Men and write for other series including Rush and The Box.He
continued to publish poetry and short stories, but left the full-time
film industry to set up the new media studies department and
screenwriting courses at the University of Canberra, leaving there to
help set up Griffith University's Foundation Year in 1975 where he
worked to create the then new screen studies and production courses
now internationally acknowledged, a series of pioneering new degree
and postgraduate programmes that have produced and mentored many of
the leading film scholars and film makers in international screen
studies today.Jonathan Dawson had two children: Patrick (born 1
February 1971) and Olivia (born 8 October 1972). He lived and wrote
full-time in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife, fashion designer and
writer, Felicity Dawson. On 10 August 2013, Dawson died after a long
battle with illness.
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