Robert Cousins is a set, costume and production designer based in Sydney, Australia. He designed the set for Opera Australia’s Melbourne Ring Cycle. Cousins’ other set design credits include Julius Caesar, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Art of War, The Serpent’s Teeth, The War of the Roses, Pygmalion and Under Milk Wood for Sydney Theatre Company; Oedipus Schmoedipus, Miss Julie, Cat on a Hot … Continued
West End credits include Ragtime, The Sound of Music (also Toronto, UK tour, Tokyo, China, South Africa and Australia), Calendar Girls (also Toronto, Australia and UK tour), Heroes (also Geffen Playhouse), The Wizard of Oz (also Toronto, Australia and U.S. tour) and Rock ‘n’ Roll (also Broadway). As an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare … Continued
Background: Born, Australia. Bachelor of Performing Arts in Design, NIDA, 1994. Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons.), UNSW, 1986. Helpmann Award – Best Scenic Design 2001, 2002, 2004; Green Room Award – Best Opera Design, 1998, 2002 and Best Dance Design 2005; NIDA Mike Walsh Fellowship, 1997. Pentagon Memorial Design Competition finalist (with Room 4.1.3), 2002 … Continued
Richard is an award-winning designer and educator. His body of work spans theatre, ballet, opera, musical theatre, and film, across Australia and internationally. Richard is currently Head of Design and Production at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has held positions as Head of Design at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Head … Continued
Background: Studied Lighting Design at Theatre Projects in London and with Jules Fisher in New York. First engagement with Opera Australia: The 1984 Elke Neidhardt production of Fidelio. OA Repertoire: Fidelio (1984), Un Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme (1985), Don Pasquale, The Magic Flute, Falstaff, Die Fledermaus (1986), Voss, Carmen, The Turn Of The Screw, … Continued
Paule is a Royal Designer for Industry, an Associate Director of the National Theatre, and an Associate of the Lyric Hammersmith and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. She has won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design a record five times, and been nominated for a further nine. She was one of the founders of Freelancers Make Theatre Work; an advocacy group for … Continued
Neil Armfield is a leading Australian director of theatre, opera and film. He was co-founder of Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre and was its Artistic Director for 17 years. During this time he directed over 50 productions, with a particular focus on new and Indigenous writing, the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Chekhov, Gogol, Patrick White and David … Continued
Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia and works regularly in Europe and the USA. He is one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers having received six Sydney Critics Awards (two for set design and 4 for lighting design), six Melbourne Green Room Awards and 5 Helpmann Awards. … Continued
Background: Sydney University. Associate Director Sydney Theatre Company 1991 – 1993. Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company from 1999 to 2010. Michael is an award-winning playwright whose works include The Kid, Away, Furious, Europe, Sweet Phoebe and Toy Symphony. He has directed for all of Australia’s major performing arts companies OA repertoire: Iphigénie en … Continued
Naomi Edwards is a theatre and opera director, and arts educator. Trained at Rusden and VCA, her practice spans opera, theatre, and theatre for young audiences, directing for Australia’s leading theatre and opera companies. Most recently Hamlet at Sydney Theatre Co Education, How To Kill Your Husband for Victorian Opera, Helpmann nominated Cautionary Tales for … Continued