Justin Fleming

Justin Fleming (born 3 January 1953), born Sydney, Australia is a playwright and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France. Fleming has been a barrister and vice-president of the Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre.

Born in Sydney, New South wales, in 1953, Justin Fleming attended high school at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he was taught English Literature by Joseph Castley and Charles MacDonald, S.J., and the classics by Charles Fraser, S.J. Near contemporaries at the college included writers Gerard Windsor and Nick Enright and composer Stewart D'Arrietta. He was taught music by Julienne Horn and Tessa Birnie. Fleming later studied at the Ensemble Theatre under Hayes Gordon and Zika Nester and has degrees in Law from Dublin University and Sydney University, and a Master of Laws from University College London. He was Associate to District Court Judge John Lincoln 1974-1979 and for some years a barrister in Dublin and Sydney, before devoting himself full-time to writing.

Fleming's first play, Hammer, was staged at the Festival of Sydney in 1981 and was followed by Indian Summer in 1982. In 1983, in the Sydney Opera House, Sir Robert Helpmann starred for the Sydney Theatre Company in the world premiere of Fleming's play The Cobra. Helpmann portrayed the elderly Lord Alfred Douglas, reflecting bitterly on his notorious youthful relationship with Oscar Wilde.

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