Jeanette Cronin

Jeanette has worked as an actor in theatre, film and television and now web-series for over thirty years, appearing in seminal Australian films including The Boys and Blackrock. Recent screen appearances include Christmas on the Farm, The Bystander Story, Upright 2, The Tourist, Patricia Moore, Gut Feeling and The Wrong Kind of Black. Recent theatre appearances include Return to the Dirt for Queensland Theatre and a National tour of Letters to Lindy where she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain in a production that Lindy herself described as being the most accurate account of her story thus far. Jeanette has also performed in several sell-out seasons of Queen Bette, a one woman show she co-created with director, Peter Mountford about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis.

Jeanette is also a playwright and screenwriter. Recent screenplays include Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad web-series about therapy which had its international premiere in competition at Cannes Short Series 2022 and its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, also in 2022. In 2021, Shattered, the Australian component of the multi award-winning film, LockEdown Locked In, an international project reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic garnered Jeanette, along with her international colleagues, Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival, 08, 2021. In 2020 Jeanette contributed Paradise is Silent, an iambic spoken word verse poem, to Come To Where I Am, Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia and Paines Plough, London.

In 2014 Jeanette began writing for the stage and her first play, Tell Me Again, produced by Eye Of The Storm, premiered at The Old 505 Theatre in 2014 and in 2019 received a workshop and rehearsed reading at the Arcola Theatre in London. Jeanette's second and third plays both premiered in 2017, I Hate You My Mother, produced by Real Harpy and Whitebox at The Old Fitz and I Love You Now at The Eternity Playhouse for Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

In 2020 two new plays were shortlisted for major awards. Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia was nominated for the prestigious Alpine International Playwriting Award and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry in the time #metoo and social media was among the five nominees for The Silver Gull Playwriting Award. In 2022 Jeanette was again nominated for the Silver Gull for her Pandemic family dramedy, God in Space.