Chris Baldock
Chris Baldock
Acting CV (since 2000)
2019 The Laramie Project Plays - Various - Mockingbird Theatre
2019 Queers - Jack - Everyman Theatre
2018 The Judas Kiss - Oscar Wilde - Mockingbird Theatre
2017 The History Boys - Hector - Everyman Theatre
2015 The Other Place - Ian - Williamstown Theatre
2014 Farragut North - Stephen - Williamstown Theatre
2014 The Judas Kiss - Oscar Wilde - Mockingbird Theatre
2012 Arsenic and Old Lace - Teddy Brewster - Heidelberg Theatre
2012 God of Carnage - Michel - Williamstown Theatre
2010 The Judas Kiss - Oscar Wilde - Heidelberg Theatre (In House Acting Award)
2009 Disposing of the Body - Henry Preece - Brighton Theatre
2008 Honk! - The Bullfrog - Williamstown Theatre
2007 Gross Indecency - Oscar Wilde - Williamstown Theatre
2006 ‘Allo ‘Allo - Rene - Williamstown Theatre
2006 The Knacker’s ABC - The Knacker - Heidelberg Theatre (In House Acting Award)
2005 Scenes From A Seraration - Mathew - Williamstown Theatre
2005 Side Man - Gene Glimmer - Heidelberg Theatre (Victorian Drama League Award - Best Actor in a Play / In House Acting Award)
2004 How I Learned To Drive - Peck - Hoy Polloy
2001 The Patrick Pearce Motel - Fintan - Heidelberg Theatre
2001 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll - Roo - Williamstown Theatre
2000 The Madness Of George III - George IV - Peridot Theatre
2000 A Month In The Country - Arkady - Malvern Theatre
Productions and roles prior to 2000 include:
The Actor in The Woman in Black, Kalinkov in You Can't Take It With You, Edwin in Hotel Sorrento, Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men, Lennie in Of Mice and Men, Peter Van Dam in The Diary of Anne Frank, The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (NZ premiere), 2nd Gangster in Kiss Me, Kate, Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, Snoopy in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown and Snoopy the Musical, The Duke in Big River, Various in The Dining Room, Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, Henry in Cosi, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Will Parker in Oklahoma!, Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Tom in The Glass Menagerie
Director/Designer CV (since 2000)
2020 Canberra Repertory
The Grapes of Wrath
- Also Set and Sound Designer
“…Chris Baldock has directed this show superbly. His set design is an atmospheric and mechanical marvel that propels us deeply into the atmosphere of the time…Chris Baldock’s production honours the writer while producing its own unique and stirring vision.” – Canberra Critics Circle
“…Director Chris Baldock has once again shown his theatrical mastery…this powerful and moving production with a detailed eye for authenticity and sensitive empathy…Baldock's stunning set design…The Grapes of Wrath has set the benchmark high.” – The Canberra Times
“…The exceptional set by Baldock was scoured but colourful, a perfect match for the road weary but lusty Joad family. The revolving stage of Rep was put to excellent use to convey the lurching road journey. The Grapes of Wrath is a bleak story, but like the Joad family this production has a potent spirit that fortifies the soul against the ordeal.” - The Rock City Jester
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2019 Canberra Repertory
The Art of Coarse Acting
- Also Sound Designer
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards - Nomination: Director of a Play
“…Chris Baldock never misses a trick with his nimble and inventive direction” – Canberra Critics Circle
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2019 Canberra Repertory
And The World Goes Round
- Set Designer
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards - Nomination: Set Design
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2019 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project:10 Years Later
- Also Actor/Set and Sound Designer
- Canberra Critics Circle Award for Production
- Canberra Times Top Three Productions of the Year
“…Mockingbird's The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later are excellent...The first play has shown that it can stand alone. The second supports and expands it...The work of this cast, crew and director is excellent...a master class in contemporary theatre...Looking over the two evenings, it is really quite awe-inspiring that the ensemble has prepared themselves so well for two massive plays...Highly engaging, immensely worthwhile.” – The Canberra Times
“...The Laramie Project achieves great things through its stellar cast, surgically precise direction and beautifully minimalist set...a better night at Theatre 3 you will not find.” – City News
“…an outstanding production...superbly staged...brilliant...a magnificent piece of storytelling...sensational...utterly absorbing....an unmissable production…Mockingbird Theatre’s production under the direction of Chris Baldock and featuring a superb cast and production team assumes the status of a state theatre company production, worthy of appearing on any professional stage in the country." - Peter Wilkins, The Canberra Times
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2019 Supa Productions
The Full Monty
“…The Full Monty grabs you, builds to a thrilling climax, and leaves you feeling energized…This expertly crafted piece of theatre is a genuine accomplishment.” – Canberra Critics Circle
“…a professional quality, thoroughly engaging show…remarkably high standard in stage directing and performance, confirming Chris Baldock’s reputation.” – Canberra Critics Circle
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2018 Canberra Repertory
One Man Two Guvnors
- Also Set Designer
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards: Director of a Play
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards - Nomination: Set Design
“…Chris Baldock’s wickedly funny production of this clever adaptation gets everything right…The complex set, designed by the director, is attractive and works to brilliant effect…Chris Baldock has given us a finely directed show…If you need a laugh, you’re guaranteed to get it here.” – Canberra Critics Circle
“…How does one review a play as funny as this, with a plot as improbable as this, performed by a cast as skilled as this, under the direction of one as wily as Chris Baldock, with one of the best sets seen on Theatre 3 stage in a long time?...The set is ingenious and marvelously dominated by the portrait of Her Gracious Majesty and the revolving center produces an amazing range of other settings” – Canberra Critics Circle
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2018 Free-Rain
42nd Street
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards - Nomination: Director of a Musical
“… Free Rain Theatre does it proud with a lavish production, under the experienced direction of Chris Baldock, …Free Rain Theatre have not only succeeded in achieving an excellent realisation of an iconic Broadway musical that captures and celebrates the very essence of Broadway, but it has also delivers scintillating musical theatre which should not be missed by anyone seeking an evening of delightful theatrical escapism.” – City News
“…It was the best musical production I have ever seen in my decades of haunting music theatre in the federal capital bailiwick. One can’t imagine 42nd Street being done better on the best stages of Melbourne and Sydney.” – Ian Warden, The Canberra Times
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2018 Canberra Repertory
Oh, What A Lovely War!
“…."What follows is a precisely marshalled demonstration of outstanding ensemble work by the company, inspired by Baldock's directorial inventiveness…." – The Canberra Times
“…. The production offered so many moments of exquisite theatricality that it is difficult to single out any particular scene....it is the vibrancy and the epic nature of the work that comes through and leaves one with a sense of fulfilment from a powerful night at the theatre." - City News
“….simultaneously blackly hilarious and utterly tragic…. packs the proverbial punch…. a fresh and vibrant interpretation…. it feels a bit odd to say that a show highlighting the folly that led to the deaths of at least ten million people is a lot of fun, but it was.” - Stage Whispers
“….director Chris Baldock and his troupe of vivacious and multi-skilled performers have succeeded…. Baldock’s direction really is clever and the design goes hand in hand with it…. The director has clearly played to each cast member’s strength for what is a genuine ensemble work.” – Chalk and Cheese Theatre Review Blog
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2017 Canberra Philharmonic
Strictly Ballroom
- Canberra Times Top 5 Theatre Productions for 2017
- Canberra Area Theatre Award for overall production
“…. It was also very canny in securing the services of experienced director Chris Baldock to lead this production…there is so much about this production to admire – Baldock’s masterly direction and his expertise in marshalling Philo’s considerable resources” - City News
".... Breath-taking in its theatrical surprises....one of the most memorable productions Canberra has seen in a long time....This show was so good that it almost seems like it was just a dream I had. Good musical theatre can do that to you. Don’t miss this one!" – Canberra Critics Circle
“….Phenomenal cast and creatives…Director Chris Baldock's casting is impeccable… a show so skillfully produced and entertaining from effusive beginning to happy-ever-after ending… one show in town I wouldn't want to miss.” – Canberra Times
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2017 Canberra Rep
A View From The Bridge
- Also Set Designer
- Canberra Critics Circle Award: for Direction and Design
- Canberra Area Theatre Awards: Direction of a Play
- Canberra Times Top 5 Theatre Productions for 2017
“….What is indisputable is Baldock's clear-sighted direction of his outstanding cast.” – Canberra Times
“….Director Chris Baldock has crafted an involving and moving adaptation of Arthur Miller’s tragic play…. Watching this play I was impressed by the freshness first-time Canberra Repertory director Chris Baldock brought to the play” – City News
“….One of the show's real stars was the set, which director Baldock conceived and designed…It’s powerful drama enhanced by visionary set design and creative lighting, REP's A View From the Bridge is a life lesson worth attending” – Stage Whispers
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2016 Heidelberg Theatre Company
One Man, Two Guvnors
- In-House Award: Director/Set Design/Production
- Also Set Designer
“…As he prepares to leave Melbourne for the nation’s capital, it’s only fitting that he gives us one last fabulous night of gob-smacking theatre to remember him by… But it’s Baldock’s show….right down to his innovative set design. Melbourne theatre will be all the poorer for losing him.” – Stage Whispers
“Chris Baldock pulled it all together as only he can and his stamp was unmistakably imprinted all over it. If you were unable to see this show, you've missed out in a big way, and I mean in a big way - It was that good.” - Theatrecraft
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2016 Short+Sweet Festival Canberra, ACT
It’s All The Rage (Finals)
- Canberra Theatre Center
- Winner of Director/Production/People’s Choice
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2016 Heidelberg Theatre Company
Twelve Angry Men
- Also Set Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Set Design/Production
“Sometimes good theatre transcends all of our expectation. This is VERY good theatre.” – Stage Whispers
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2016 Williamstown Little Theatre
The Nance
- In-House Award: Director/Production
- Australian Premiere
- Also Sound Designer
“Director Chris Baldock’s creative flair and vision was well to the fore in staging this remarkable production.” – Radio 3MFM
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2016 STAG Theatre Company
Killing Jeremy
- Set and Sound Designer
- Victorian Drama League Award: Sound Design
- Victorian Drama League Award - Nomination: Set Design
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2016 Short+Sweet Festival Melbourne, VIC
Intelligent Design (Finals)
Proximity
The Message
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2015 Arts Events Australia
Black Diva Power: Nina Simone & Billie Holliday
- Regional Tour – September/October
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2015 Sly Rat Theatre
Foreign Bodies
- The Owl and The Pussycat
- Also Set Designer
“…under the direction of Chris Baldock, the force with which the play builds to its climax is so incredibly powerful and almost unnervingly real.” – Theatre Press
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2014 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
Quills
- Melbourne Meat Market
- Also Set Designer
“Masterful director, Chris Baldock, has done it again with Mockingbird Theatre’s stunning version of Quills by Doug Wright.” – Radio 3MFM
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2014 Simon Coronel
Glitches In Reality
- Toured to Adelaide and Perth Festivals, Edinburgh and L.A.
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2014 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
The Temperamentals
- Brunswick Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
- Midsumma Festival
“ ...in another highly praiseworthy example of Chris Baldock and Mockingbird's ability to stage some of the most noteworthy theatre in town." – Time Out
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2013 Short+Sweet Festival Melbourne, VIC
From The Cradle To The Brave (Finals)
Oral Fixation (Finals)
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2013 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
- The Owl and The Pussycat
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
“Mockingbird Theatre present another powerful production confirming their reputation as theatre makers of calibre.” – Arts Hub
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2013 Heidelberg Theatre Company
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
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2013 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
Equus
- Brunswick Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
- Also Set and Sound Designer
“Mockingbird Theatre have created an exceptional piece of art” – Australian Stage
“Do whatever you need to do to get a ticket. Buy, steal, borrow, beg…Extraordinary.” – Weekend Notes
“Mockingbird Theatre’s staging of this superb play would not be what it is without Baldock’s superlative vision. His consummate direction and his ingenious ability to draw us hook, line, and sinker, into both Alan and Martin’s most intimate sanctums that is utterly breathtaking.” – To Dad With Love
“Director Chris Baldock does not aspire to main stage and compromise – only to excellence, and raising the bar with every production. I am in awe of his vision.” – Stage Whispers
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2013 Mad As Us Productions Geelong, VIC
Burning
- Courthouse Arts Centre
- Starring Two-Time Logie Award Winner, Libby Tanner
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
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2013 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
How I Learned To Drive
- Brunswick Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
“…in the hands of an extraordinary and empathetic director…produces an evening of theatre that will never be forgotten…But it is Chris Baldock’s direction that takes us to another place, that gives us that ache in the gut, and the lump in the throat, the pricking behind the eyelids. He touches our souls. We’re so lucky that he shares his gift with us, the audience.” – Stage Whispers
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2013 Williamstown Little Theatre
33 Variations
- Australian Premiere
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award - Nomination: Director/Production
- Victorian Drama League Award: Sound Design
- Victorian Drama League Award Nominations: Director/Production
“As director, the meticulous Chris Baldock has left nothing to chance in making sure that absolutely every aspect of this production was brilliantly handled and integrated into an absorbing theatrical experience for its audience.” – Radio 3MFM
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2013 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director) Melbourne, VIC
Blue/Orange
- Broken Mirror
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
“ Chris Baldock cements his position as an exciting director poised to take on all comers…this is theatre of the highest order that deserves to be seen by all lovers of good drama.” – Stage Whispers
“A wonderful and thrilling night of contemporary theatre” – Theatre Press
“…it is played with the colour and the passion of a work of abstract painting in Chris Baldock’s luminous production.” – To Dad With Love
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2012 Short+Sweet Festival Melbourne, VIC
The Sum Of Your Experiences (Finals)
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2012 Mockingbird Theatre (Owner/Artistic Director)
The Laramie Project
- Chapel Off Chapel
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
“…this is a fantastic production of a monumental play…. A magnificently touching and powerful show” – Theatre Press
“The real star, however, is director Chris Baldock, whose confident aesthetic and minimal mise-en-scene give this production much of its power.” – Arts Hub
“…an extraordinary production of Baldock’s striking vision.” – Stage Whispers
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2012 Williamstown Little Theatre
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
“Under the inspired guidance of the director, Chris Baldock, WLT’s production was both impressive and highly entertaining making for an engrossing theatrical experience.” – Radio 3MFM
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2011 Heidelberg Theatre Company
Under Milk Wood
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award nomination: Director/Production
“I cannot remember when I last sat through a production that was such an excellent melding of creativity, technicality and production……highest praise must go to director Chris Baldock” - Theatrecraft
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2009 Williamstown Little Theatre
Kindertransport
- Also Sound Designer
- Victorian Drama League Award: Sound Design
- Victorian Drama League Award Nominations: Director, Production
- In-House Award nomination: Director/Production
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2009 Malvern Theatre Company Melbourne, VIC
The Elephant Man
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award nomination: Director/Production
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2009 Heidelberg Theatre Company
Cloudstreet
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2008 Williamstown Little Theatre
The Drawer Boy
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2007 Heidelberg Theatre Company
The Grapes of Wrath
- Victorian Drama League Award: Director, Production
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2007 Hoy Polloy
Shining City
“This is another riveting production from Hoy Polloy and Baldock, both emerging strong contenders to the title held by fellow heavyweights of naturalist theatre, Red Stitch.” - The Sunday Age
“Baldock's direction is unfailingly sensitive and detailed at every moment.” – MCV
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2006 Williamstown Little Theatre
Old Wicked Songs
- Also Sound Designer
- Victorian Drama League Award: Director, Production, Sound Design
- In-House Award: Director/Production
- Theatre People People’s Choice Awards: Drama, Director
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2006 Malvern Theatre Company
Twelve Angry Men
- Also Set Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
- Victorian Drama League Award Nominations: Director, Production, Set Design
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2005 Williamstown Little Theatre
Dealer’s Choice
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2005 The Actomatic 3000
The Laramie Project
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
- The Victorian Green Room Award: Best Independent/Fringe Production
- Named one of the best productions of the year: The Age, Theatre Notes, RRR
- The Sunday Age: 5 star review
“The acting, directed by Chris Baldock, is outstandingly good: intensely moving and utterly convincing.” – The Age
“Director Chris Baldock intelligently eschews props or costumes, exploiting instead the full resources of his excellent ensemble cast…… Baldock imaginatively works the mise en scene to enact things as various as diary entries, a meeting by the fence where Shepard was found or a busy court room, the actors shifting between different roles as the script demands. Like the conceit of the play itself, these are deceptively simple means which work with brilliant efficacy.” – Alison Croggin, Theatre Notes
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2004 Waverley Theatre
Amadeus
- Also Sound Designer
- Lyrebird Awards: Production, Director, Sound Design
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2004 BWM Productions Melbourne, VIC
Out of the Flying Pan
- Canberra Festival of One Act Plays: Director, Production
- Maroondah One Act Play Festival: Best Director, Best Production
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2004 Saltpillar Theatre
Brighton Beach Memoirs
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2004 Williamstown Little Theatre
Three Days of Rain
- Also Sound Designer
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2004 Brighton Theatre Company
The Laramie Project
- Also Set Concept and Sound Designer
- In-House Award nomination: Director/Production
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2003 Heidelberg Theatre Company
The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2003 Malvern Theatre Company
Gaslight
- Also Set Designer
- In-House Award: Set
- In-House Award Nomination: Director/Production
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2003 Williamstown Little Theatre
The Shoe-Horn Sonata
- Also Sound Designer
- Victorian Drama League Award: Sound Design
- Victorian Drama League Award Nominations: Director, Production
- In-House Award Nomination: Director/Production
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2003 First Scene
Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Midsumma Festival at Gasworks
- Also Set Designer and Sound Designer
- Named one of the best productions of the year: The Herald Sun
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2002 Heidelberg Theatre Company
Shirley Valentine
- In-House Award: Director/Production
- Also Set Designer
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2002 Williamstown Little Theatre
Blood Brothers-The Play
- In-House Award Nomination: Director/Production
- Also Set Designer
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2001 Williamstown Little Theatre
Master Class
- In-House Award: Director/Production
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2000 Malvern Theatre Company
The Philadelphia Story
- In-House Award: Director
- Also Set Designer
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2000 Williamstown Little Theatre
Terra Nova
- In-House Award Nomination: Director/Production
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Productions prior to 2000:
Eltham Little Theatre: The Cemetery Club, The Heidi Chronicles, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Importance of Being Earnest (all In-House Awards: Director/Production); HATs Theatre Company: Torch Song Trilogy (In-House Award: Director/Production); POGMUR Theatre Company: The Dining Room; TriHard Theatre Company: A Slice Of Saturday Night (Victorian premiere), Of Mice & Men; MUMCo: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; Wheelers Hill Secondary College: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Eight Is Enough Concerts – 1993 and 1994 (also performed for Morning Melodies – Victorian Arts Centre); Dandenong Musical Theatre: Mame; Auckland Music Theatre (formerly Auckland Operatic Society): Pippin, Chicago, Hair; Auckland Independent Production: The Town Planners’ Ball
Also:
Owner and Artistic Director of Mockingbird Theatre
Drama Tutor at Mockingbird Acting Studio (2017-) – Group and one-on-one classes
Reviewer for ArtsHub, Theatrecraft and Theatre People.
Adjudicator for Victorian Drama League, Music Theatre Guild of Victoria, Brighton Theatre Company, Mordialloc Theatre Company, various One Act Play festivals
Drama Tutor at First Scene (2000-2003) – Group and one-on-one classes