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2015 Sydney Theatre Award Nominations
2015 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD NOMINATIONS MAINSTAGE BEST MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION Endgame (Sydney Theatre Company) Ivanov (Belvoir) The Present (Sydney Theatre Company) Suddenly Last Summer (Sydney Theatre Company) The Wizard of Oz (Belvoir) BEST DIRECTION Eamon Flack (Ivanov) Andrew Upton (Endgame) Kip Williams (Love and Information) Kip Williams (Suddenly Last Summer) BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Paula Arundell (The Bleeding Tree) Cate Blanchett (The Present) Jacqueline McKenzie (Orlando) Eryn Jean Norvill (Suddenly Last Summer) BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Colin Friels (Mortido) Ewen Leslie (Ivanov) Josh McConville (Hamlet) Hugo Weaving (Endgame) BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Blazey Best (Ivanov) Jacqueline McKenzie (The Present) Susan Prior (The Present) Helen Thomson (Ivanov) BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Matthew Backer (The Tempest) John Bell (Ivanov) John Howard (Ivanov) Barry Otto (Seventeen) BEST STAGE DESIGN Alice Babidge (Suddenly Last Summer) Marg Horwell (La Traviata) Renée Mulder (The Bleeding Tree) Nick Schlieper (Endgame) BEST COSTUME DESIGN Alice Babidge (Mother Courage and her Children) Alice Babidge (Suddenly Last Summer) Alicia Clements (After Dinner) Marg Horwell (La Traviata) BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Paul Jackson (Love and Information) Nick Schlieper (Endgame) Nick Schlieper (King Lear) Emma Valente (The Wizard of Oz) BEST SCORE OR SOUND DESIGN Stefan Gregory (Suddenly Last Summer) Max Lyandvert (Endgame) Max Lyandvert (The Wizard of Oz) The Sweats (Love and Information) INDEPENDENT BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION Cock (Red -
Annual Report 2019–2020
Annual Report 2019–2020 Contents About About 3 President & Chief Executive’s Report 4 Live Performance Australia (LPA) is the peak body for Australia’s live performance COVID-19: LPA’s Leadership & Advocacy 6 industry. Established over 100 years ago in 1917 and registered as an employers’ Workplace Relations 8 organisation under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009, LPA has over 400 Members nationally. Policy & Advocacy 10 Member Services 12 We represent commercial producers, music promoters, major performing arts companies, small to medium companies, independent producers, major performing arts Staff 15 centres, metropolitan and regional venues, commercial theatres, stadiums and arenas, Financial Report 16 arts festivals, music festivals, and service providers such as ticketing companies and technical suppliers. Our membership spans from small to medium and not-for-profit Executive Council 38 organisations to large commercial entities. Members 40 LPA’s strategic direction is driven by our Members. LPA Members are leaders in our Acknowledgments 42 industry and their expertise is crucial to ensuring positive industry reform, whether by Member Resources 44 providing input to submissions or serving as a Member of LPA’s Executive Council. Contact 45 LPA’s membership remains strong and, importantly, reflective of the artistic and commercial diversity of the Australian live performance industry. LPA has a clear mandate to advocate for and support policy decisions that benefit the sustainability and growth of the live performance -
Simon Gleeson
SIMON GLEESON TRAINING Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts – Graduate 1998 THEATRE Morning Melodies Simon Gleeson-Australia’s Leading Man Performer Arts Centre Australia Bring Him Home Performer Promac Productions Australia An Ideal Husband Sir Robert Chiltem Melbourne Theatre Company Dir : Dean Bryant Oklahoma! Curly McLain The Production Company Dir : Chris Parker Witches Performer Working Arts Productions The Classics : Broadway – Composers of the 21st Century Performer City of Stonnington APO NYE Concert 2017 Performer Australian Philharmonic Orchestra Spirit of Christmas 2017 Performer Queensland Performing Arts Centre Hay Fever Richard Greatham Melbourne Theatre Company Dir: Lee Lewis Les Misérables Jean Valjean Cameron Macintosh Ltd London Curtains Lieutenant Frank Cioffi The Production Company Dir: Roger Hodgman Les Misérables Jean Valjean Cameron Macintosh Australia Dir: Laurence Connor & James Powell Rupert Ensemble Kennedy Centre, Washington DC Rupert Ensemble Melbourne Theatre Co Dir: Lee Lewis Chess Anatoly (The Russian) The Production Company Dir: Gale Edwards Love Never Dies Raoul Gustave Stage Productions Dir: Simon Phillips Starting Here Starting Now Man Manilla Street Productions Dir: Andrew Macbean Imagine This Adam New London Theatre, West End Dir: Timothy Sheader Certified Male Howard Edinburgh Festival Dir: Glynn Nicholas The Silver Lake Severin Wexford Festival Dir: Keith Warner Southwark Fair Angus Royal National Theatre, London Dir: Nicholas Hytner lisa mann creative management pty ltd telephone: +61 -
MINERVA THEATRE Feasibility Study – Executive Summary
MINERVA THEATRE Feasibility Study – Executive Summary MINERVA THEATRE – FEASIBILITY STUDY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Create NSW City of Sydney Minerva Theatre Feasibility Study – Executive Summary December 2020 Hawkridge Entertainment Services Tim Long Managing Director Nick Tobin Managing Director, Networked Urban Solutions Disclaimer This report (Study) has been produced independently by Hawkridge Entertainment Services (HES) on the request of Create NSW and the City of Sydney. The information, statements, statistics and commentary (together the ‘Information’) contained in this study have been prepared by HES from publicly available material and from discussions held with stakeholders. HES does not express an opinion as to the accuracy or completeness of the information provided, the assumptions made by the parties that provided the information or any conclusions reached by those parties. HES have based this Report on information received or obtained, on the basis that such information is accurate and, where it is represented to HES as such, complete. The Information contained in this Report has not been subject to an audit. Hawkridge Entertainment Services Specialist consultants in the entertainment, sports, arts and venue industries Sydney | Melbourne | Perth | Singapore Page | 2 MINERVA THEATRE – FEASIBILITY STUDY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Executive Summary The Minerva Theatre Feasibility Study was jointly commissioned by the City of Sydney Council and Create NSW, with the principal aim of investigating whether: 1. a refurbished Minerva Theatre would be a viable performance space in the Sydney market; and 2. there is market interest in reinstating the Minerva as a theatre. The study indicates that reinstatement of the Minerva as a commercially operated theatre is a viable proposition. -
The Turquoise Elephant E X T D N F C R T O
GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE TURQUOISE ELEPHANT STEPHEN CARLETON BY STEPHEN CARLETON 14 OCTOBER-26 NOVEMBER E Production Sponsor Meet Augusta Macquarie: Her Excellency, patron of the arts, X formidable matriarch, environmental vandal. THE T D TURQUOISE Inside her triple-glazed compound, Augusta shields herself from the catastrophic elements, bathing in THE TURQUOISE ELEPHANT the classics and campaigning for the reinstatement of global reliance on fossil fuels. Outside, the world lurches from one environmental cataclysm to the next. ELEPHANT N Meanwhile, her sister, Olympia, thinks the best way to save endangered species is to eat them. Their niece, Basra, is intent on making a difference – but how? Can you save the world one blog at a time? F C Stephen Carleton’s shockingly black, black, black political farce won the 2015 Griffin Award. R T It’s urgent, contemporary and perilously close to being real. Director Gale Edwards brings her magic and wry insight to the world premiere of this very funny, clever and wicked new work. O S T CURRENCY PRESS GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE TURQUOISE ELEPHANT BY STEPHEN CARLETON 14 OCTOBER-26 NOVEMBER Director Gale Edwards Set Designer Brian Thomson Costume Designer Emma Vine Lighting and AV Designer Verity Hampson Sound Designer Jeremy Silver Associate Lighting Designer Daniel Barber Stage Manager Karina McKenzie Videographer Xanon Murphy With Catherine Davies, Maggie Dence, Julian Garner, Belinda Giblin, Olivia Rose, iOTA SBW STABLES THEATRE 14 OCTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER Production Sponsor Government Partners Griffin acknowledges the generosity of the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation in allowing it the use of the SBW Stables Theatre rent free, less outgoings, since 1986. -
Benjamin Winspear
SHANAHAN MARTA DUSSELDORP | Actor TELEVISION Year Production / Character Director Company 2021 JACK IRISH: SERIES 3 Various Easy Tiger Productions Linda 2020 WENTWORTH: SERIES 8 Kevin Carlin, Fremantle Media Sheila Fiona Banks 2019 STATELESS Emma Freeman, Dirty Films / ABC / Matchbox Margot Verner Jocelyn Moorhouse Pictures 2018 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 6 Various Foxtel / Seven Network Sarah Adams 2018 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE Various SBS Australia 2017 JACK IRISH: SERIES 2 Various Essential Media & Entertainment Linda 2017 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 5 Various Foxtel / Seven Network Sarah Adams 2016 JANET KING: SERIES 3 Peter Andrikidis, Screentime Janet King Grant Brown, Catherine Millar 2016 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 4 Various Foxtel / Seven Network Sarah Adams 2015 JANET KING: SERIES 2 Various Screentime Janet King Shanahan Management Pty Ltd PO Box 1509 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Australia ABN 46 001 117 728 Telephone 61 2 8202 1800 Facsimile 61 2 8202 1801 [email protected] SHANAHAN 2015 JACK IRISH SERIES 1 Various Essential Media & Entertainment Linda 2015 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 3 Various Foxtel / Seven Network Sarah Adams 2013 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 2 Various Seven Network Sarah Adams 2013 JACK IRISH: DEAD POINT Jeffrey Walker Essential Media & Entertainment Linda Hillier 2013 JANET KING Various Screentime Janet King 2012 A PLACE TO CALL HOME: SERIES 1 Various Seven Network Operations Sarah Adams 2012 DEVIL’S DUST Jessica Hobbs Fremantle Media Meredith Hellicar 2012 JACK IRISH: BLACK TIDE Jeffrey Walker Essential -
Retallick Katrina.Pdf
sue barnett & associates KATRINA RETALLICK TRAINING Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 1995 – Advanced Diploma of Creative Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company Masterclass with Cecily Berry and Andrew Wade (voice) Theatre de Complicite – clowning and neutral mask Advanced Diploma in Creative Theatre Bachelor of Arts, Sydney University FILM June Again Becca Ticket to Ride/See Pictures Dir: JJ Winlove Accidents Happen Connie AH Films Pty Ltd Dir: Andrew Lancaster The Eternity Man (Tele-movie) Prostitute RB Films Pty Ltd Dir: Julien Temple The Hairdresser Lead Dir: Michael Liu Crossword Woman Metro TV South Lisa Bennett Sydney University Drama Society Writing Joachim Claire Independent The Cup and the Lip Young Teacher AFTRS TELEVISION Love Child (Series 4) Margaret Fulton Playmaker Media Dir: Shannon Murphy Comedy Inc. (Series 4) Regular cast Crackerjack Productions P/L Comedy Inc. (Series 3) Regular cast Crackerjack Productions P/L Comedy Inc. (Series 2) Regular cast Crackerjack Productions P/L Comedy Inc. (Series 1) Regular cast Crackerjack Productions P/L The Chaser – CNNN Dancer Crackerjack Productions P/L Backburner Crackerjack Productions P/L THEATRE Come From Away (Remount) Dianne Moose Downunder, Rodney Rigby Dir: Christopher Ashley Who’s Your Baghdaddy Or How I Started Woman Hayes Theatre The Iraq Way Dir: Neil Gooding Come From Away Diane Moose Downunder, Rodney Rigby Dir: Christopher Ashley Sleeping Beauty Nanny Tickle Bonnie Lythgoe Productions The Adventures of Peter Pan & Tinker Bell Mrs Darling/ Bonnie Lythgoe Productions -
Online Program
GRIFFIN THEATRE GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS COMPANY CREATED AND PERFORMED BY DEBRA OSWALD DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS 13 – 24 APRIL BIOGRAPHIES Debra Oswald The Nightwatchman. Other directing credits Ben Brockman Company/10 Days on the Island: The Mares; Writer and Performer include: for Griffin and Bell Shakespeare: Lighting Designer as associate composer and sound designer: The Literati, The Misanthrope; for Bell for Belvoir: Counting and Cracking, Random; Debra Oswald is a two- Shakespeare: The School for Wives, Twelfth Ben is an award-winning for Sydney Theatre Company: Wonnangatta; time winner of the NSW Night; for Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, Half lighting designer who as performing musical director and bassist: Premier’s Literary Award and Half, A Number, 7 Blowjobs, Ladybird; for works both nationally for Belvoir: Barbara and the Camp Dogs (2017 and is creator/head Hayes Theatre Company: Darlinghurst Nights; and internationally. His and 2019 seasons); as bassist: for LWA/Sydney writer of the first five seasons of successful for Melbourne Theatre Company: Gloria, theatre credits include: for Griffin: Family Opera House: SIX: The Musical (LWA/Sydney TV series Offspring. She is the author of the Hay Fever and David Williamson’s Rupert, Values, Diving for Pearls, Replay, Splinter, 2016 Opera House); and as composer’s assistant: for novels Useful and The Whole Bright Year. Her which toured to Washington DC as part of and 2018 Season Launches; for Apocalypse Sydney Theatre Company: Harp in the South new novel The Family Doctor was published by the World Stages International Arts Festival Theatre Company and Red Line Productions Parts I & II. -
1 Sydney Theatre Company Annual Report 2014
Sydney Theatre Company Annual Report 2014 1 Kate Box, Melita Jurisic, Robert Menzies, Hugo Weaving, Ivan Donato, Eden Falk, Paula Arundell and John Gaden in Macbeth. Photo: Brett Boardman Aims of the Company To provide first class theatrical entertainment for the people of Sydney – theatre that is grand, vulgar, intelligent, challenging and fun. That entertainment should reflect the society in which we live thus providing a point of focus, a frame of reference, by which we come to understand our place in the world as individuals, as a community and as a nation. Richard Wherrett, 1980 Founding Artistic Director 5 2014 in Numbers ACTORS AND CREATIVES 237 EMPLOYED $350,791 C R 12TEACHING TIX OF TI KET P ICE TIX SAVINGS PASSED ON TO ARTISTS 733 4,877 SUNCORP TWENTIES CUSTOMERS EMPLOYED REGIONAL $20.834M AND INTERSTATE TOTAL TICKET PERFORMANCES INCOME EARNED WORLD 6PREMIERES 1,187 WEEKS PLAYWRIGHTS AVERAGE OF WORK 9 ON COMMISSION CAPACITY FOR ACTORS 6 7 David Gonski Andrew Chairman Upton In the last four annual reports, I have reported on work undertaken by the organisation to modernise operations and governance structures to best support the Company’s artistic aspirations into the Artistic Director future. Most recently, in 2013, I wrote about the security of 45 year leases over the Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Theatre) and James Duncan in The Long Way Home. Richard Roxburgh in Cyrano de Bergerac. our tenancy at The Wharf, and the subsequent winding up of New Photo: Lisa Tomasetti 2014 was a year that brought the Company together through thick Photo: Brett Boardman South Wales Cultural Management, the body that had previously and thin. -
AR 2016 Webversion.Pdf
ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Richard Higgins and Matt Kelly in Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark. Photo: Prudence Upton Aims of the Company To provide first class theatrical entertainment for the people of Sydney – theatre that is grand, vulgar, intelligent, challenging and fun. That entertainment should reflect the society in which we live thus providing a point of focus, a frame of reference, by which we come to understand our place in the world as individuals, as a community and as a nation. Richard Wherrett, 1980 Founding Artistic Director Emma Harvie in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photo: Brett Boardman Strategic Plan PURPOSE Theatre is a place for ideas VISION Based in Sydney and reflecting our home’s distinctive personality, we will be one of the world’s most exciting and original theatre companies MISSION 1 To create distinctive theatre of vision and scale 2 To ensure a future for theatre 3 To assist building creative capacity in the community 4 To explore the issues of the day 6 Ursula Yovich in The Golden Age. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti 7 2016 in Numbers 136% 78,915 MORE THAN PEOPLE SAW AN 3 591 OF TICKET PRICE STC 856 SAVINGS PASSED ON TO SHOW 5,501 SUNCORP TWENTIES CUSTOMERS AND 133 382,576 NATIONALAND TIX TIX TEACHERS INTERNATIONAL PAID PERFORMANCES IN TOTAL TICKET INCOME OUTSIDE ATTENDEES OF SYDNEY MORE THAN TO STC’S 2016 PROGRAM 1,477 200,000 WEEKS O PEOPLE AVERAGE OF WORK W RLD CAPACITY PREMIERES ATTENDED 87% FOR ACTORS 6 THE 23 ROSLYN TEACHING PACKER ACTORS ARTISTS PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE AND CREATIVES EMPLOYED 12 ON COMMISSION 331 EMPLOYED 8 9 Ian Narev CHAIR 2016 was another very successful year for Sydney Theatre Company. -
Theatre Australia Historical & Cultural Collections
University of Wollongong Research Online Theatre Australia Historical & Cultural Collections 11-1977 Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(6) November 1977 Robert Page Editor Lucy Wagner Editor Bruce Knappett Associate Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia Recommended Citation Page, Robert; Wagner, Lucy; and Knappett, Bruce, (1977), Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(6) November 1977, Theatre Publications Ltd., New Lambton Heights, 66p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia/14 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(6) November 1977 Description Contents: Departments 2 Comments 4 Quotes and Queries 5 Letters 6 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 62 Guide, Theatre, Opera, Dance 3 Spotlight Peter Hemmings Features 7 Tracks and Ways - Robin Ramsay talks to Theatre Australia 16 The Edgleys: A Theatre Family Raymond Stanley 22 Sydney’s Theatre - the Theatre Royal Ross Thorne 14 The Role of the Critic - Frances Kelly and Robert Page Playscript 41 Jack by Jim O’Neill Studyguide 10 Louis Esson Jess Wilkins Regional Theatre 12 The Armidale Experience Ray Omodei and Diana Sharpe Opera 53 Sydney Comes Second best David Gyger 18 The Two Macbeths David Gyger Ballet 58 Two Conservative Managements William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews 25 Western Australia King Edward the Second Long Day’s Journey into Night Of Mice and Men 28 South Australia Annie Get Your Gun HMS Pinafore City Sugar 31 A.C.T. -
Molly Ringwald, Robert Greene and More
smh.com.au A CRIMINAL , MOLLYMIND RINGWALD & A SEDUCTION WALKARTIST INTO A... HAVE WE GOT A STORY FOR YOU. Tara Moss, Molly Ringwald, Robert Greene and more. Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival May 20–26, 2013. 1HERSA1 S001 2 swf.org.au SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK CORE FUNDERS SUPPORTERS ABL Open Hachette Australia Randwick City Library Service Allen & Unwin HarperCollins Red Room Company Ashfield Library Head On Photo Festival Riverside Theatres Auburn Poets and Writers Group The Hills Shire Library Ryde Library Service Auckland Writers and Readers Service Scholastic Festival History Council of NSW Scribe Australian Poetry Hoopla Simmer on the Bay Australian Publishers Hornsby Central Library South Coast Writers Centre Association Hurstville City Library Stella Prize EXCLUSIVE LEGAL PARTNER Avant Card ICE Sydney Dance Lounge Black Inc Kathy Shand Sydney PEN Blacktown Arts Centre Kogarah Library Sydney Story Factory Blacktown City Libraries Lox & Smith Text Publishing Byteback Computing Macleay Museum The Folio Society Camden Council Library Service Meanjin The Langham Sydney Campbelltown Arts Centre Mont Blanc University of Queensland Press MAJOR PARTNERS Campbelltown City Library Murdoch Media Group University of Technology Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Museum of Contemporary Sydney Chanelle Collier Art UWA Publishing Chatswood Concourse The Nest Varuna, The Writers’ House Children’s Book Council NSW Writers’ Centre Vivid Ideas of Australia Overland Walker Books City of Sydney Libraries Pan Macmillan The Walkley Foundation