Background: NIDA Graduate. Churchill Scholar. Artistic Director (1982) of Adelaide Festival of Arts. Artistic Director of Lighthouse (STC-SA) 1982-3. AFI nominated documentary The Burning Piano: A Portrait of Patrick White. 2005 Helpmann Award for Best Director: Three Furies by Stephen Sewell. Books: Blood and Tinsel – A Memoir (Melbourne University Press, … Continued
Background: Based in Auckland. Began design career at Theatre Corporate in 1977. Received Arts Council Grant in 1981, enabling study in Europe and the United States. Head of Design at Mercury Theatre, 1982. Freelance designer in Toronto and later New York, 1985; since then has been freelancing for film, television and commercial design OA repertoire: … Continued
Born in Berlin, the German Director studied in Leipzig. He was Oberspielleiter in Stralsund and Chemnitz and directed in Weimar as well as in Dresden. From 1981 on he was director of Komische Oper Berlin and Professor at Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler Berlin. For his last production as chief director at Komische Oper Berlin, The Turn … Continued
George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and designer of opera, film and video. He won an International Competition of “New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations” some twenty years ago. Since then his opera designs have been seen all over the world, including Salzburg Festival, Opera de Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden … Continued
Graeme Murphy was born in Melbourne and studied at The Australian Ballet School. He has danced with The Australian Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Ballet (London) and Ballets Félix Blaska (France). In 1971, he received an Australia Council Grant to study overseas. He returned to Australia in 1975 as a freelance choreographer. The following year, he was … Continued
Background: Born, Australia. NIDA Graduate – Technical Production OA repertoire: South Pacific, Lakmé, Carmen, Midnite, La bohème Other Companies: San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera – Moby Dick. The Production Company – Anything Goes, Sugar (Some Like It Hot), Music Man, Hair, Mack & Mabel, Mame. Gordon Frost Organisation – Footloose. Sydney Theatre Company – … Continued
Background: Assistant Resident Lighting Designer for the Metropolitan Opera in NYC for 12 seasons. OA repertoire: The Magic Flute Other Companies: He has designed La Traviata for Teatro Regio in Turin Italy and Tokyo, The Makropulos Case and Samson and Dalila for Houston Grand Opera, Carmen, Peter Grimes and Norma for San Diego Opera and … Continued
Gabriela Tylesova is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed designer. Gabriela’s design work includes: Boomerang and Of Earth And Sky (Bangarra Dance Theatre); Shakespeare In Love, Twelfth Night, The Pillowman, Tomfoolery, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and URINETOWN (Melbourne Theatre Company); Ladies In Black (Queensland Theatre); Il Turco In Italia, Cosi Fan … Continued
Gale Edwards is one of Australia’s leading and most acclaimed international theatre directors. Her career spans forty years. She was born in Adelaide and is a graduate of Flinders University, Adelaide University and The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She has worked all over the world, been Associate Director of two Australian State Theatre Companies (South Australia and Melbourne), … Continued
An internationally recognized director of opera and theatre, as well as the General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival since 2010, and the Artistic Director of The Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center since 2012. She has also served as the Artistic Advisor to the San Francisco Opera from 2005–2011 and as the Artistic Director … Continued