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About Jim McNeil
- James Thomas McNeil (23 January 1935 – 16 May 1982) was an Australian award-winning playwright.
- While serving a 17-year sentence in Parramatta Correctional Centre for armed robbery and shooting a police officer, McNeil began writing plays.
- Within a few years he was being hailed as one of Australia's three most significant playwrights of the 20th century.
- He was released on parole 10 years early, won an Australian Writers' Guild Award and married actress and director Robyn Nevin.
- At the time of his release, McNeil's plays were being produced simultaneously in every state and territory in Australia.
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