Background
Sejavka grew up in Mount Waverley, where he attended Holy Family Primary, a Catholic school.
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Sam Sejavka
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Sejavka has spent much of his working life singing and composing music His rise to prominence came during the mid-"80s in the band Beargarden. The film title comes from a song of the same name by The Ears.
The main character of Sam was played by Michael Hutchence.
Sejavka appears in the film briefly in the party scene, addressed by Hutchence as "Michael." Since the 1990s, Sejavka has concentrated on his work as an actor and playwright. In the late 1970s, Sejavka fronted Melbourne post-punk band The Ears.
In the mid-1980s, he formed Beargarden, who were signed to Virgin Records Australia and had a minor hit with their single "The Finer Things" and the album All That Fall. Sejavka"s plays include: Planetarium Restoring the Picture of Dorian Gray directed by Australian theatre/film director Robert Chuter Advice from a Caterpillar In the Service of Beauty (a dramatisation of the final days of Countess Elizabeth Báthory) Mammothrept (produced while he was playwright-in-residence at Louisiana Mama Theatre, Melbourne).
In 1995, his play All Flesh is Glass took him to New York as part of an exchange programme organised by New Dramatists and the Australian National Playwright"s Centre.
Sam also appeared in a number of highly popular stage productions including: The Death of Peter Pan, Quintessence and Shipwreck!, all directed by Robert Chuter and produced at Louisiana Mama Theatre. He now documents local insect life in Mountain Waverley on his blog.
Achievements
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The Hive (winner of the Victorian Premier"s Louis Esson Prize for Drama in 1990), directed by Robert Chuter then adapted in 2006 by Chamber Made into a music-theatre work In Angel Gear (winner of the Victorian Green Room Awards Best Production), directed by Robert Chuter His play Mysterium, commissioned by Kickhouse theatre, won the 1999 Wal Cherry Award.
Membership
Early in his musical career, he was a member of the band The Ears, with whom he has done recent projects.
