John Bell is Artistic Director of Bell Shakespeare and one of Australia’s most acclaimed theatre personalities. In a career of acting and directing, John has been instrumental in shaping the Australian theatre industry as we know it. After graduating from Sydney University in 1962 John worked for the Old Tote Theatre Company, all of Australia’s … Continued
Background:Born, Australia. Awards include Best Choreographer Moulin Rouge American Choreography Awards, 2001; Australian Dance Award for Contribution to the Art of Dance, 1993; Golden Platypus Award for most popular event in Brisbane, 1999 OA repertoire: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Edinburgh Festival Critics Award) … Continued
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: Born, Australia. Trained at McDonald College Ballet School. NIDA Graduate – Movement Studies. University of NSW – Performing Arts, UWS – Dance. OA repertoire: Dancer – Julius Caesar, Rinaldo, The Pearlfishers, Die Meistersinger, Lulu, Lucia di Lammermoor, Iolanthe, Faust, Tales of Hoffmann; Actor – Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Il trittico. Revival Director – Sid the … 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
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
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: 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
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