Eamon Flack is an Australian theatre director. He is Artistic Director of Belvoir, a theatre company in Sydney's Surry Hills. Flack, who grew up in Darwin, Northern Territory, was encouraged towards a career in theatre by actor

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when studying at the University of Queensland, where Brown was an adjunct professor. Flack studied acting at the

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. Flack become Literary Manager and later Associate Director at Belvoir, before being appointed Artistic Director from 2016. Two productions Flack directed for Belvoir have won Best Play at the Helpmann Awards, ''

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'' in 2014 and ''

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'' in 2015. He was nominated for a

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in 2016 for Belvoir's production of ''Ivanov''. Flack was credited as associate writer of '' Counting and Cracking'', written by S. Shakthidharan, which won both the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama at the 2020

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