Jeanette Cronin
- Actress
- Writer
Jeanette's many screen credits include seminal Australian films, The Boys and Blackrock and numerous television series, notably, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Darby & Joan 2, Upright 2, The Tourist, Rake and also web-series, Patricia Moore, Gut Feeling and The Wrong Kind of Black.
Recent theatre appearances include, Queen Bette (PIP Theatre, Brisbane and The King's Head Theatre, London), Love Stories, an adaptation of Trent Dalton's best selling book for (Brisbane Festival, 2024), Tim, an adaptation of Colleen McCullough's novel of the same name (Christine Dunstan Productions), Who the Hell is Mirabel? (Schreiber Shorts on Theater Row, New York), Return to the Dirt (QLD Theatre) and a National tour of Letters to Lindy (Merrigong Theatre) in which she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.
Jeanette is also a scriptwriter and in 2022 won the AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild Award) for Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad series about therapy which premiered internationally at Cannes Short Series, in Australia at the Melbourne International Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on SBS Television. In 2021, Jeanette, along with her international colleagues, won Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival 08 for LockEdown Locked In, a multi-award-winning film reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 Jeanette contributed Paradise is Silent, a spoken word iambic verse poem, to Come To Where I Am, Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia with Paines Plough, London, and streamed internationally.
Four new plays were recently shortlisted for local and international awards: Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia, Red Stitch, Inks, 2024, Alpine International Fellowship Theatre Prize, 2020; The Resistible Death and Rise of Ines de la Vera, a love letter to the lonely, Alpine Fellowship, 2023; God in Space, a Pandemic Family dramedy, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2022 and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2020.
In 2014, Tell Me Again, a memory play, produced by Eye of the Storm, premiered at Old 505 Theatre and in 2019 received a workshop and rehearsed reading at Arcola Theatre, London. In 2015, Jeanette co-devised with director, Peter Mountford, Queen Bette, a one-woman show about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis. Produced by G.Bod Theatre for Mardi Gras at Old 505 Theatre, Queen Bette premiered in 2015 (with return seasons in 2016 and 2019) and has toured extensively: Hunter Valley Summer Theatre Festival, 2016, Gasworks Arts Park for Melbourne's Midsumma Festival, 2020, PIP Theatre, Brisbane, 2024 and King's Head Theatre, London, 2024. In 2017, I Hate You My Mother, an impious revenge tragedy, produced by Real Harpy and Whitebox, premiered at The Old Fitz, and I Love You Now, an unromantic romance, premiered at Eternity Playhouse for Darlinghurst Theatre Company. In 2023 Jeanette's one-act play, Who the Hell is Mirabel?, debuted on Theatre Row, New York, produced by Schreiber Shorts Festival.
Recent theatre appearances include, Queen Bette (PIP Theatre, Brisbane and The King's Head Theatre, London), Love Stories, an adaptation of Trent Dalton's best selling book for (Brisbane Festival, 2024), Tim, an adaptation of Colleen McCullough's novel of the same name (Christine Dunstan Productions), Who the Hell is Mirabel? (Schreiber Shorts on Theater Row, New York), Return to the Dirt (QLD Theatre) and a National tour of Letters to Lindy (Merrigong Theatre) in which she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.
Jeanette is also a scriptwriter and in 2022 won the AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild Award) for Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad series about therapy which premiered internationally at Cannes Short Series, in Australia at the Melbourne International Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on SBS Television. In 2021, Jeanette, along with her international colleagues, won Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival 08 for LockEdown Locked In, a multi-award-winning film reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 Jeanette contributed Paradise is Silent, a spoken word iambic verse poem, to Come To Where I Am, Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia with Paines Plough, London, and streamed internationally.
Four new plays were recently shortlisted for local and international awards: Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia, Red Stitch, Inks, 2024, Alpine International Fellowship Theatre Prize, 2020; The Resistible Death and Rise of Ines de la Vera, a love letter to the lonely, Alpine Fellowship, 2023; God in Space, a Pandemic Family dramedy, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2022 and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2020.
In 2014, Tell Me Again, a memory play, produced by Eye of the Storm, premiered at Old 505 Theatre and in 2019 received a workshop and rehearsed reading at Arcola Theatre, London. In 2015, Jeanette co-devised with director, Peter Mountford, Queen Bette, a one-woman show about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis. Produced by G.Bod Theatre for Mardi Gras at Old 505 Theatre, Queen Bette premiered in 2015 (with return seasons in 2016 and 2019) and has toured extensively: Hunter Valley Summer Theatre Festival, 2016, Gasworks Arts Park for Melbourne's Midsumma Festival, 2020, PIP Theatre, Brisbane, 2024 and King's Head Theatre, London, 2024. In 2017, I Hate You My Mother, an impious revenge tragedy, produced by Real Harpy and Whitebox, premiered at The Old Fitz, and I Love You Now, an unromantic romance, premiered at Eternity Playhouse for Darlinghurst Theatre Company. In 2023 Jeanette's one-act play, Who the Hell is Mirabel?, debuted on Theatre Row, New York, produced by Schreiber Shorts Festival.
