Dean Bryant

Director

Dean Bryant is an award-winning writer and director of stage and screen. For Opera Australia he directed Two Weddings, One Bride and Anything Goes (with GFO). Recent credits include A Little Night Music (Hayes Theatre Co), Bloom (MTC), Giustino (Pinchgut), Hubris & Humiliation (STC), The Normal Heart (STCSA), Show People (Sydney Festival) and It’s A Sin: Songs of Love and Shame (Adelaide Cabaret Festival). He won the Sydney Theatre Award and Green Room Award for his direction of Fun Home (STC/MTC).

Other credits for Hayes Theatre include Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors (Sydney Theatre Award) and Sweet Charity (Helpmann Award). 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. He has also directed for Darlinghurst Theatre, Red Stitch, VCA and The Production Company.

With composer Mathew Frank he wrote the 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, an adaptation of My Brilliant Career which premieres at MTC in 2024. Dean has created many solo shows, including smash-hit Britney Spears: The Cabaret, as well as verbatim plays Gaybies and Well…That Happened and made his screen directing debut this year with short film Rhyme Time.