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John Sheedy is an Australian theatre director.
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John Sheedy is an Australian theatre director.
Sheedy was educated at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).[ citation needed ]
Sheedy is a director of drama and musicals for the stage as well as opera. [1] He has built up a body of work for theatres in Australia and overseas festivals. He has been a regular guest at Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, and the Perth International Arts Festival.
Sheedy has a career working with Australian theatre companies. For Belvoir Street Theatre, Sheedy directed Sarah Kane’s play Blasted , Lawrence Mooney’s Sink or Swim and Patricia Cornelius’ play Love ( 2006 ), Sheedy was also Assistant Director on The Lieutenant of Inishmore with Neil Armfield (2004). Sheedy directed a season of Mark Ravenhill’s play Some Explicit Polaroids at Darlinghurst Theatre. Some Explicit Polaroids and Love were both nominated for Best Independent Production at the 2006 Sydney Theatre Awards. For the Sydney Theatre Company Sheedy was Assistant Director to Richard Cottrell on Ying Tong – A Walk with the Goons, which went on to tour Australia and assisted Julian Meyrick on Doubt for its national tour. Sheedy directed several rehearsed play readings of the winning scripts for the Patrick White awards and directed the season of Storm Boy in 2013 and 2015 at the Sydney Theatre Company.
In 2008, 2009 and 2010 Sheedy directed the Actors at Work Program for the Bell Shakespeare Company touring across Australia. For Parramatta Riverside, Sheedy directed Suzie Miller’s All The Blood And All The Water and Far Away for Black Swan Theatre Company before directing the premiere of the new musical Risky Lunar Love at Sydney’s Carriageworks. In 2008 Sheedy spent three months in New York assisting Edward Albee on a workshop of his play Me, Myself And I, before working with Cicely Berry at the National Theatre Studio script development in London. For Griffin, Sheedy directed Tiger Country and in 2009 Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here. Sheedy also collaborated with Ross Mueller on a production entitled This Highway Home with a creative workshop held in 2010.
In his first season as the artistic director of Barking Gecko Theatre Company, [2] Sheedy wrote for the stage and directed The Amber Amulet adapted from the book by Craig Silvey, which premiered in 2011. In the same year, he directed a stage adaptation of Shaun Tan's children’s book The Red Tree, which was adapted by Sheedy with designer Gypsy Taylor and premiered at Barking Gecko Theatre Company in 2011, and re-produced for the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival.
In 2012 he also directed Susie Miller’s Driving into Walls for the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival. Under his direction, Barking Gecko Theatre Company has been nominated for seven Helpmann Awards, including Best Children’s Presentation. The production then toured to the Sydney Opera House and Parramatta Riverside Theatres in June 2013. In 2013, Sheedy directed Hamlet as part of a multi-year partnership with the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. In addition he adapted and directed Wolf Erlbruch's book Duck, Death And The Tulip as part of the 2013 Perth International Arts Festival and directed an adaptation by Tom Holloway of Colin Thiele’s Storm Boy, as a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company for which he received the Performing Arts WA Award for Best Director (previously WA Equity Awards).
In 2014, Sheedy and playwright Suzie Miller returned to Perth International Arts Festival with a sequel for Driving into Walls called onefivezeroseven, whose script was drawn from interviews with teenagers across Australia, and later in the year Sheedy directed a season of Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novel Jasper Jones. [3] In 2015, Sheedy adapted and directed The Rabbits, a co-production of Opera Australia and Barking Gecko Theatre Company presented by the 2015 Perth International Arts Festival featuring Kate Miller-Heidke. [4] The production received four 2015 Helpmann Awards including Best Presentation for Children and Best New Australian Work.
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