Peter England

Peter England holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Design) from NIDA (1994) and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons.) from UNSW (1986). He is a multi-award-winning designer, receiving four Helpmann Awards, three Green Room Awards, and a Mike Walsh Fellowship. His work on King Kong – Alive on Boardway earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award, … Continued

Richard Roberts

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

Nigel Levings

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 Constable

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

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

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

Michael Gow

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

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

Mic Gruchy

  Background: Born, Australia. Mic’s work spans the fields of theatre, opera, dance, installation, feature film and television. Awarded an Australia Council Artist’s Fellowship for 2012. Mic’s video artworks are included in collections around the world and he created a featured Video installation Damned Souls & Turning Wheels (Sydney Biennale). Mic teaches … Continued

Moffatt Oxenbould AM

Moffatt Oxenbould’s contribution to the development of opera in Australia and Opera Australia (OA) spans a period of more than fifty years. He was Artistic Director of Opera Australia from 1984 – 1999, during which time he also directed a number of milestone productions for the company including Il trittico, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Britten’s … Continued