Melvyn Morrow

Melvyn Morrow (born 1942, in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian playwright. He co-wrote Shout! The Legend of the Wild One and Dusty - The Original Pop Diva with John-Michael Howson and David Mitchell. Earlier in his life he wrote material for The Mavis Bramston Show.

He is a graduate of St Aloysius' College. He taught English and Drama at Stonyhurst College where he directed and wrote the libretto for the musical Frank Ass, based on the life of Francis of Assisi. The musical was also taken to the Edinburgh festival in 1974. He also taught at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he taught author Gerard Windsor, playwright Nick Enright, and entertainer Andrew O'Keefe. He is the father of comic Julian Morrow.

Morrow's first scripts were performed by three Australian showbiz legends: Gordon Chater and Jill Perryman at the Phillip Theatre and the Downstairs Revue, and in The Mavis Bramston Show by Barry Creyton. Morrow’s musical, Morality!, was presented at the Edinburgh Festival, the London Fringe and off-off-Broadway. Rewritten as Between Earth and Sky, it was produced in Australia by Studio Sydney, directed by the author.

With composer, John Mallord, Morrow wrote book and lyrics for Brother Playboy or Frank Ass, The Francis of Assisi Musical, Cuckoo, a musical of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, Jack Point, a musical sequel to Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard, Disco, a radio musical for the stage, and Postcards From Provence, a musical adaptation of Alphonse Daudet’s nineteenth century classic, Letters From My Windmill. Starring Australian Opera baritone, John Pringle, Postcards enjoyed critical acclaim in its 1993 stage production at the Zenith Theatre and later on ABC radio. Melvyn’s twenty first century two act update of The Francis of Assisi Musical, Perfectly Frank is published by Origin Music and is now available for schools and community theatre

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