Louis Esson

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Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (10 August 1878 - 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright.

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was three. He attended the University of Melbourne and began working as a journalist and playwright soon after. ^[1]

In the 1920s he was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players, a theatre company dedicated to the performance of Australian plays and the development of a national theatre. The Pioneer Players produced 18 new Australian plays in their four years of existence.

Select plays

Dead Timber (1911)
The Time is Not Yet Ripe (1912)
The Woman Tamer
The Sacred Place
The Drovers (1922)
Mother and Son (1923)
The Bride of Gospel Place (1926)

References

↑ "LOUIS ESSON.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia). 18 June 1938. p. 21. Retrieved 16 December 2012.

External links

Louis Esson at Australian Dictionary of Biography
Louis Esson at Australian Poetry Library

Persondata
Name	Esson, Lewis
Alternative names	Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson
Short description	Australian poet, journalist and playwright
Date of birth	10 August 1878
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death	27 November 1943
Place of death	Australia

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