Simon Phillips (born 1958) is a New Zealand-Australian director of theatre, musicals and opera. [1] [2] He is a former Artistic Director of Melbourne Theatre Company. [3] [4]
Phillips graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1980 with a Diploma in Acting. [5] Phillips directed the original 2015 production of Tim Finn's musical Ladies in Black for the Queensland Theatre in Brisbane which then travelled to Melbourne and toured Australia in 2017. [6]
Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, New South Wales, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent at the Arts Centre Melbourne, where it is accompanied by Orchestra Victoria. In 2004, the company gave 226 performances in its subscription seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, Victoria, attended by more than 294,000 people.
Anthony Warlow is an Australian musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range. He is a classically trained lyric baritone and made his debut with the Australian Opera in 1980.
Eddie Perfect is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, comedian, writer and actor.
David Berthold is an Australia theatre director. He has been theatre director of several Australian, London and Berlin theatre companies. He was artistic director of the Brisbane Festival over five festivals from 2015 to 19.
James David Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).
Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the live performing arts in Australia: performed, written or produced by Australians.
David Hobson is an Australian opera tenor and composer.
Teddy Tahu Rhodes is a New Zealand operatic baritone.
Darren Robert Yap is an Australian actor and director.
Trevor Ashley is an Australian musical theatre actor, cabaret and drag artist based in Sydney. He also has appeared on television in The Very Trevor Ashley Show.
Christopher Scalzo is an Australian-born actor, singer and musical theater performer. He has been part of many major National and International musicals.
Michael Falzon was an Australian musical theatre/rock tenor actor, and producer, who ran his own production company, Good Egg Creative.
Lucy Maunder is an Australian cabaret and theatre performer. She originated the role of Lara in the Australian premiere of Doctor Zhivago opposite Anthony Warlow, and has toured with her own cabaret Songs in the Key of Black, releasing an album with the same name. Maunder toured with the national touring company of Grease playing the role of Rizzo. She then starred in the role of Miss Honey in the Australian tour of Matilda the Musical, replacing Elise McCann. She is currently starring in the Australian production of Fun Home, in the adult lead role.
Ladies in Black is an Australian musical with music and lyrics by Tim Finn and book by Carolyn Burns, based on the 1993 novel The Women in Black by Madeleine St John.
Ainsley Melham is an Australian actor, best known as a former member of Australian children's musical group Hi-5 from 2013 to 2016 and for playing the title role in Disney's Aladdin in Australia and later on Broadway.
Anna O'Byrne is an Australian actress and soprano singer best known for her portrayal of Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the original Australian production of Lloyd Webber's sequel, Love Never Dies, for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award.
Elise McCann is an Australian actress and musical theatre performer most well known for originating the role of Miss Honey in the Australian production of Matilda the Musical and as Lucille Ball in Everybody Loves Lucy.
Alex Rathgeber is an Australian actor and singer, perhaps best known for his Helpmann Award-winning performance as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes. More recently he appeared as the Tin Man in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Wizard of Oz.
George Ellis is an Australian conductor, composer and orchestrator. He presents concerts for international events with a broad range of styles from classical to pop/rock and jazz as well as presenting orchestral concerts for young audiences. He also lectures in conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is a regular presenter of Sonic Journey for ABC Radio Sydney’s program with Simon Marnie.
Hugo Chiarella is an Australian writer and actor best known for his work in musical theatre. Chiarella grew up in Sydney, Australia and trained in musical theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts.