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

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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CHRIS KOHN

Chris Kohn graduated from VCA School of Drama (Directing) in 1998. He 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. He is currently Artistic Associate for Arena Theatre Company and a board member of Theatreworks. In 2007 Chris directed Waikiki Palace at STC's Wharf2Loud and next year he will be directing Antigone for Company B.
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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 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 credits from the last few years include: Associate Director The Underpants, Company B Belvoir; Director, the Menotti Opera The Telephone and the Shakespearean Opera Project The Falling, for the Conservatorium of Music; Director 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 later this year in Western Australia at Southern Edge Arts. Julian is also an acting teacher. For NORPA Julian directed in 2007 Not Like Beckett, which will tour in 2008.
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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 directing work includes: Dostoyevski's Notes from Underground (Belvoir Street Theatre); Shoah: Part 4, The End of Lill Tofler for Open House - Belvoir Street; Room 207: Nikola Tesla for X-Ray Theatre; 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 will direct 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 of Doubt at the STC last year and that award-winning production's presentation 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 as 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.
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TOMMY MURPHY

A 2004 NIDA Director's course graduate, Tommy has directed his own plays Troy's House (SUDS, ATYP, La Mama), Bendy (ATYP) and Try Hard (NIDA). His NIDA graduating show was Robert Holman's Being Friends and he has directed Happy and Clean (Old Fitzroy) and Speedy Mustard (Old Fitzroy). Recently he directed 3 Little Fears - Snapped (Old Fitzroy).
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