A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat.
The Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia.
Neil Geoffrey Armfield is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.
David Berthold is one of Australia's most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. He has directed for most of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as internationally, and has led several key arts organisations. He was Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals and Queensland’s largest arts and cultural event. Through his tenure of five festivals, 2015-19, Berthold transformed the Festival into Australia's largest major international arts festival, presenting more works to more people than any other, with an audience of more than one million people.
Melbourne International Arts Festival was a major international arts festival and celebration of dance, theatre, music, circus, visual arts, multimedia, outdoor and free events held each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia. The festival ran from 1986 to 2019, when it was announced a new festival, later named Rising, would take its place.
Malthouse Theatre is the resident theatre company of The Malthouse building in Southbank, part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. In the 1980s it was known as the Playbox Theatre Company and was housed in the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne's CBD.
Chamber Made Opera is an Australian arts organisation based in Melbourne, creating contemporary opera and music theatre.
Vanessa "Van" Badham is an Australian writer and social commentator. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the Guardian Australia website.
Short+Sweet is a multi-form arts platform presenting festivals in theatre, dance, music-theatre, comedy and cabaret across Australia and Asia. The one common thread between all festivals is that all works presented - be it theatre, dance, music-theatre or cabaret - must be ten-minutes or less. Short+Sweet's vision statement is: a more creative world ten minutes at a time. Their flagship festival is Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney, the largest ten-minute play festival in the world.
Wayne David Harrison AM is an Australian director, writer, producer and performer.
Gideon Obarzanek is an Australian choreographer, director and performing arts curator. He was Artistic Associate with the Melbourne Festival (2015-2017), co-curator and director of 'XO State' at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (2015-2017). Obarzanek was appointed Chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2015 and Strategic Cultural Engagement Manager at Chancellery at the University of Melbourne in 2018.
Boho Interactive is an Australian science-theatre company originally based in Canberra, Australia. Boho was established in 2001 by Jack Lloyd, David Finnigan and Michael Bailey. Boho's creative team also includes David Shaw, Nathan Harrison, Rachel Roberts and Nicole Kennedy of performance collective Applespiel from Sydney, Australia.
Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, and playwright.
Glyn Roberts is an Australian playwright, producer and educator.
John Kachoyan is an Armenian-Australian director, writer, and dramaturg. He is a co-founder of Iron Bark, a theatre company in London, specialising in new Australian plays, and the former Creative Director of MKA: Theatre of New Writing, in Melbourne. Kachoyan has been a Director In Residence at Bell Shakespeare.
Chris Ioan Roberts is an Australian-born actor, writer and director working in London.
Jonathan Holloway is an artistic director and theatre director. Originally from Sheffield in the north of England, he is currently the artistic director of Melbourne Festival. Previously he established the National Theatre's Watch This Space Festival, was artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and most recently the artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival., which culminated with The Giants by Royal de Luxe, one of the largest arts events ever staged in Australia.
Tom Wright is an Australian theatre writer, mostly known for his adaptations and translations.
Doppelgangster is a UK/Australian experimental performance company that has been recognised internationally for its ecologically and socially engaged practice, which includes site-specific theatre, one-to-one encounters, and subversive political interventions. The company has been recognised by the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts] (IETM) and the French Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) for "creating cultural responses to climate change, forced migration and globalisation using technology to extend their reach to new audiences".
Anne-Louise Sarks is an Australian theatre director, writer and actor. From October 2021 she will be Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Her partner is journalist Sean Kelly.
