Ned Manning

Ned Manning is an Australian playwright, actor and teacher, whose film credits include the lead role in Dead End DriveIn and an appearance in the teen film Looking for Alibrandi . Mannings television credits include Bodyline, The Shiralee, Prisoner, and Brides of Christ. His first major play was Us or Them, and its production by Griffin Theatre Company marked the companys transition to being staffed by professional actors. Other plays have included Milo, Kennys Coming Home and Close to the Bone in 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play Last One Standing at the Old Fitzroy theatre in Sydney. The plays have received mixed reviews, with Last One Standing in particular being criticised for its formulaic and predictable narrative. Manning has written for the Bell Shakespeare Companys Actors at Work program, a travelling community and schools theatrical education initiative.

Ned Manning was born in 1950 and grew up on a property in Coonabarabran, New South Wales. He married Bronwyn Bancroft, an Indigenous Australian artist, with whom he had two children, including New South Wales Young Australian of the Year for 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft. Manning remarried to theatre director Marion Potts, with whom he had two children. In 2010, they relocated from Sydney to Melbourne when she was appointed director of the Malthouse Theatre.

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