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Harris Smart
Writer, Film and Television Producer, Musician
Harris and Piata Smart
Harris Smart has been a writer, film and television producer, art therapist, visual artist and curator, musician and composer, and workshop facilitator.
Harris was a lecturer in Communication Studies at Swinburne University of Technology from 1969-74
He has been a writer, producer, director and executive producer of more than fifty films, videos and TV programs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1974-84) and other organisations in Australia, Asia and the UK.
As a writer he is the author of a number of books and many short stories and feature articles published in Australia, the USA, Asia and the UK. Awards include the inaugural Age Short Story Award and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at StanfordUniversity.
Harris has also been an editor with Starlight Press and other publishing companies. Harris wrote the very popular Subud book ‘Sixteen Steps’ and is the Editor of Subud Voice the regular Subud Australia Newsletter.
Harris was director of his own multimedia production company, Intamedia Pty. Ltd. (1994-95) involved in the production of CD-i and CR-ROM marketing and training programs for the hi-tech instrument maker Rofin Australia Pty. Ltd.
He has worked as an art therapy initiator, manager and creative director of innovatory community service programs involving the arts for people with disabilities such as schizophrenia and disadvantaged people and homeless people.
Harris worked as a theme park event designer with the leisure and tourism company Creative Design and Technologies Pty. Ltd. (1987-92) in Sydney. With his interest in visual art Harris has curated more than ten art exhibitions including the exhibition Faith Works! at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Theatre work has included working as writer producer and director of the plays On the Edge (1997). Nijinsky (1999) and The Yellow House (2000).
As a musician, Harris is a pianist, guitarist, harmonica and dulcimer player. His last musical project was the writing of ‘Eva’s Back Porch Café’ – a collection of songs that was recorded as a CD and performed as a musical – based on a group of musicians meeting on the back porch of a local character in Uki, NSW.
Harris was also the co-founder and creative director of the ‘Uki-lele’ festival, a very popular community event in Uki, NSW. His current musical project is the production of a live performance of a cycle of songs called ‘The Yellow House’ based around the life of Vincent Van Gogh and his relationship with Gauguin.
Harris is currently based in Melbourne.
Visit Act Naturally Productions at www.actnaturally.net/index.html
for information on Harris’s writings recordings and other activities.