Over 30 professional theatre productions, as writer, producer or director, including La Mama Melbourne, Holden Street Theatre Adelaide, 707 Theatre Redfern Sydney, Tap Gallery Sydney, Teatrul Municipal Bacovia Bacau Romania, Inculise Bucharest Romania,People’s Theatre Sofia Bulgaria, Old Fitzroy Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Powerhouse Museum and National Gallery of Canberra. Video programs have been broadcast on ABC, SBS, Foxtel and New Zealand television, and screenings at NSW Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canberra, South Australia Art Gallery, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Holden Theatre Adelaide, Wollongong Art Gallery, Thirroul Excelsior, Project Gallery Wollongong, and other public venues. Commissions by Art Gallery of NSW.
Sponsorships by Peabody Energy, IMB Bank, Lawrence Hargrave Centre, Anzac Commemorative Fund. Lecturer in media and communications at University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong, Notre Dame University and University of New South Wales. Editor of Southern Semiotic Review journal.
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This exuberant work of acrobatic circus was an early starter in this year’s festival of Sydney, and proved to be a real crowd pleaser. The energetic, fast paced mix of floor based acts, wrapped in hybrid resonating music …
The show is a retelling of a notorious part of Sydney’s criminal history, that of the so called Razor Gangs, in 1927-1929. The characters involve Tilly Divine (played by Alexandra Smith), a name that still resonates in urban folklore and …
This show was brash in its depiction of multiple divergent contemporary subjects – random acts of violence, serial murders, guns, home decor, middle class aspirations, property prices, suburbia, homelessness – in a very hybrid style mixing stand up comedy and …
THE SIRENS’ RETURN is a concert (with dialogue) set in a spectacular seaside setting. Port Kembla pool is a treasure, sheltered from suburbia by hills of shrub and grass, its restored historical buildings melding into a long beach winding to …
More a homage concert or what Meredith Simpson, the President of the Miranda Musical Society, the group who staged this grand production, well termed a “jukebox musical genre”, Beautiful The Carole King Musical, book by Douglas McGrath, music …
WIL AND GRACE. This little start up comedy was a welcome first, at least personally, for attendance and review, post Covid Lockdown. It was also good to see it at the old 505 space in Newtown, where Friday night jazz …
how dare this one young impudent
pink individual
rise up, disorganised, anarchic, flambuoyant
petal
dares to break with tyranny of tradition
with its own accord and colour swell
how dare bare blossoms break
bleak blight of uniform winter’s
This show comes from a rich legacy, over several mediums and decades. Its precise execution benefits from a cast well warmed from the earlier 2019 production at the Hayes Theatre Sydney. This was directed by Alexander Berlage who also directs …
This is the second full, new musical by South Coast creative Stephen Goldrick, in as many years. The first, Anvil, was set in nineteenth century colonial times, while this one is firmly based on twentieth century Albury and …
Thanks to Anne Tournié (Choreography and Direction) and Chris Mouron (Adaptation and Co-direction) for bringing a work of such joy and hope to our city. More than a revival of the iconic French children’s tale, this production was the very …