Edmund Duggan (playwright)

Edmund Duggan was an Irish-born actor and playwright who worked in Australia. He is best known for writing a number of plays with Bert Bailey including The Squatter's Daughter and On Our Selection. His solo career was less successful than Bailey's. His sister Eugenie was known as "The Queen of Melodrama" and married noted theatre producer William Anderson, for whom Duggan frequently worked as an actor, writer and stage manager.
Between 1892 and 1895 Duggan and South's "Her Majesty's Dramatic Company", toured New South Wales with La Tosca, All for Gold, Greta. His Natural Life and Robbery Under Arms. consistently receiving good notices.
Duggan's wife died two years before he did and he was survived by two daughters.

Select theatre credits

The Democrat – writer
For the Term of his Natural Life – writer, acted
Cyrano de Bergerac – acted
Lady Audley's Secret
The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle – wrote with Bert Bailey as 'Albert Edmunds'
The Southern Cross – writer
Man to Man – actor
The Bushwoman – acted and directed
The Man from Outback – wrote with Bert Bailey as 'Albert Edmunds'
The Chance of a Lifetime – acted
The Christian – acted
My Mate, or a Bush Love Story – writer
On Our Selection – wrote with Bert Bailey as 'Albert Edmunds'
The Native Born – wrote with Bert Bailey as 'Albert Edmunds'
Duncan McClure and the Poor Parson – acted – acted
Gran'dad Rudd – acted
On Our Selection – produced
The Rudd Family by Steele Rudd – produced, acted