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JOSEPH COUCH
A NIDA Directors course graduate, Joseph was awarded the 2003 Richard Werrett Fellowship at the STC. He directed Away for the STC's Education program and his production of Faustus played at B Sharp. He has also directed Knives in Hens, which played at B Sharp Downstairs Belvoir Street and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union - Company B Belvoir Street. His latest production was Pan for B Sharp.
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RODNEY FISHER
Rodney has worked in most major theatres in Australia and for all Australian theatre companies as well as Opera Australia, VSO, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Ballet London, Legs on the Wall. Has worked in dance, film, video and written several theatre pieces and screenplays. Highlights include: The Bastard from the Bush (Robin Ramsay one man show), A Star is Torn - also wrote - (Robyn Archer), Master Class, My Fair Lady (Anthony Warlow and Suzanne Johnston) and Steaming (legendary Australian tour). Work for STC includes: The Lady in the Van, Pentecost, The Rain Dancers, The Secret Rapture, and The Doll Trilogy. For MTC includes: Design for Living, Hay Fever. State Theatre Co SA: The Department, and as Artistic Director Macbeth, The Idiot, Kafka Dances, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night. Others include: The Merry Widow (Ess Gee Productions), From Here to There (Legs on the Wall), A Winter's Tale (QTC), My Fair Lady (VSO), Maria Stuarda (AO/VSO) and Lady Bracknell's Confinement (Diana Bliss and MIF). Recent work includes Hello Dolly (The Production Company), My Darling It's Noel (ICA), Shock of the New (Sydney Symphony), La Traviata (MCO), A Violent Act (STC) and Don John (SSO). Recipient of many awards including Order of Australia "For Services to Directing and Writing".
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KIM HARDWICK
Kim Hardwick is a stage director and producer. Most recently she directed The Hatpin, which played at the New York Music Theatre Festival and premiered at the Seymour Centre in 2008 starring Caroline O'Connor, Peter Cousens and Barry Crocker. Also this year Kim produced and directed Love Bites, a song cycle for two men and two women, written by The Hatpin creators Peter Rutherford and James Millar. Kim's other directing credits include: The Memory of Water (Darlinghust Theatre & NSW regional tour), A Moment on the Lips (Darlinghurst Theatre, Old Fitzroy Theatre & The Stables in NSW and the Old Council Chamber in Carlton, VIC), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Darlinghurst Theatre), For the Birds (Darlinghurst Theatre, NSW & Blue Room, Perth) and Dinner with Friends (Darlinghurst Theatre - Return Season). She is a graduate of VCA and WAAPA and is set to direct the Australian premiere of BANG by Jonathan Gavin for B Sharp.
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CHRIS KOHN
Chris is the Artistic Director of Arena Theatre Company and is a theatre director, writer, video artist and composer and the Artistic Director of Arena Theatre Company. His body of work is characterised by heightened theatricality, close attention to detail and rhythm, a darkly absurd sense of humour and collaborative processes resulting in close interweaving of action, sound and design. Since 2001, he has created several works with his independent company, Stuck Pigs Squealing, presenting in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and New York. His works have received five Green Room Awards, including two "Best Show" awards (The Black Swan of Trespass and The Eisteddfod), four awards from the Melbourne Fringe Festival (two for Black Swan and two for The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria), including two awards for Best Production, and awards at the New York International Fringe Festival (Producer's Choice and Best Direction for The Black Swan of Trespass). In 2005 he toured The Eisteddfod to PS122 and Ontological Theatre in New York. In 2007 Chris directed Waikiki Hip at STC's Wharf2Loud and in 2008 Antigone for Company B. This year he has directed The Children's Bach for ChamberMade Opera (nominated for 2009 Helpmann Award for Best Direction of an Opera) Mr Freezy for Arena Theatre Company andGoodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd(a Katz/Kohn Creation) for Malthouse and Arena.
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JULIAN LOUIS
Julian has been Artistic Director of NORPA, since early 2007. He is a graduate of the NIDA director's course, holds a BA in theatre and Media (Bathurst), and has trained with Phillippe Gaulier in London and performed with Theatre De Complicite. Julian is also currently the artistic Director of State of Play, an ensemble company he founded with Nick Enright and Jessica Machin. Julian directed their first production Five Stories High at the 2003 Sydney Festival and their latest show Wilde Tales toured throughout NSW in 2007. Some directing credits from the last few years include: the Menotti Opera The Telephone, the Shakespearean Opera Project The Falling, for the Conservatorium of Music,Performix and Contact, for ATYP. Julian has written and directed many shows in communities and has been an artist in resident in North West NSW and in Western Australia at Southern Edge Arts. For NORPA Julian directed in 2007 Not Like Beckett and is directing Monkey Shines at the Sydney Opera House.
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MAX LYANDVERT
Max Lyandvert is a composer, sound designer and director who has worked for major theatre companies garnering many awards. His recent work includes War of the Roses, Manna (composer and director), The Vertical Hour, Blackbird, R his own work Close Your Little Eyes, a commission by the Sydney Festival at the Opera House; the Australian premieres of Richard Forman's My Head Was A Sledgehammer (B Sharp) and I've Got the Shakes (Darlinghurst Theatre) and the workshop production of Nether. Max has travelled and worked extensively with the internationally acclaimed director Rovera Castalucci. In 2007 Max directed for B Sharp and Melbourne Festival of the Arts Forman's Now that Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty. For 2008 he directed Manna for STC.
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JULIAN MEYRICK
Julian directed David Hare's The Vertical Hour for the Sydney Theatre Company following his direction there of Doubt this was an award-winning production which was also presented at the MTC and STCSA. In 2007 he directed Thom Pain, Enlightment and Ross Mueller's The Ghost Writer for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Ian Wilding's October for Griffin Theatre Company. Other credits for the MTC include A Single Act, Cruel and Tender, Dinner, The Memory of Water, Blue/Orange and Frozen, which was presented by the STC and was nominated for Green Room, Helpmann and Mo awards. Julian has also directed productions for Windmill Theatre, Melbourne Workers' Theatre (most notably the inaugural production of Who's Afraid of the Working Class for which he won the 1998 Green Room Award for Best Director) and for his own theatre company, Kickhouse Theatre. In 2009 Julian direcedThe Birthday Party for MTC. This year he direct's Will Eno's Lady Grey and Angela's Kitchen, co-created with Paul Capsis for the Griffin Theatre Company
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SHANNON MURPHY
Shannon is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art Directing Course. Her theatre directing credits include The Age of Consent for Adelaide Fringe Festival and The Old Fitzroy Theatre; and My Name Is Rachel Corrie for B Sharp and the Seymour Centre, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich and Shakespeare's R&J for The Florida Players and Two Marias for Black Box in Hong Kong. She assisted directors Wayne Blair on Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train for B Sharp and murri fulla flims; Brendan Cowell on Rabbit for Sydney Theatre Company; and Marion Potts on The Taming of the Shrew for Bell Shakespeare. She is also an actor and voice-over artist with performance credits in Australia and overseas, and has worked on various productions as a deviser and playwright including Lear: The Storm at Home for the Virginia Stage Company; and Garbage for Fuelfor the Florida Players. Shannon assisted director Neil Armfield on Gethsemane for Company B this year. She also directed Bliss for B Sharp in October 2009. Recently she directed Mark O’Rowe’s Crestfall for Griffin Independent. Shannon was nominated for a 2008 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director for My Name is Rachel Corrie; the production won the 2008 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production. In 2010 she is set to direct Polly Stenham's Tusk Tusk for the Sydney Theatre Company.
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