Dean Bryant

Director

Dean Bryant is an award-winning writer/director, whose OA credits include Candide (Green Room award), La Boheme National tour, Anything Goes and Two Weddings, One Bride. Recent credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (STC), Dear Evan Hansen (STC/Michael Cassel Group), Bloom (STC/MTC), A Little Night Music (Hayes Theatre, Sydney Theatre Award), Giustino (Pinchgut), Hubris & Humiliation (STC), The Normal Heart (STCSA), Show People, It’s A Sin: Songs of Love and Shame (both Sydney Festival) and Fun Home (STC/MTC, Sydney Theatre and Green Room awards).

He was Associate Director at Melbourne Theatre Company 2016-2019 where his other credits include Torch the Place, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lady in the Van, An Ideal Husband, Wild, Vivid White, Born Yesterday, Skylight and I’ll Eat You Last. Other credits for Hayes Theatre include Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors (Sydney Theatre Award) and Sweet Charity (Helpmann Award).

With composer Mathew Frank he wrote Green Room Award-winning musicals Prodigal and Once We Lived Here, and Virgins: A Musical Threesome, The Silver Donkey, songs for Mr & Mrs Murder and, with Sheridan Harbridge, the smash-hit MTC musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career which received Outstanding Production and Outstanding Writing at this year’s Green Room Awards.  Dean created many solo shows, including smash-hit Britney Spears: The Cabaret, as well as verbatim plays Gaybies and Well…That Happened and made his film directing debut with short Rhyme Time.