CV
2024
Opera Australia
The Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.
2023
Sydney Theatre Company
Roslyn Packer Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Sumner Theatre
A very Jewish Christmas Carol by Elise Hearst and Phillip Kavanagh
2022
Opera Queensland
QPAC, The Concert Hall
State Opera of South Australia
His Majesty’s Theatre
West Australian Opera
Her Majesty’s Theatre.
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.
2021
Malthouse Theatre
The Outdoor Stage
SS Metaphor by Ash Flanders
Opera Queensland
QPAC, The Concert Hall
Lorelei. Music by Julian Langdon, Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Lyrics by Casey Benetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Orchestration by Julian Langdon. Concept by Ali McGregor. Director and Dramaturg, Sarah Giles.
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Sumner Theatre, Southbank
The Truth by Florian Zeller.
Victorian Opera
The Palais, St Kilda
Lorelei. Music by Julian Langdon, Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Lyrics by Casey Benetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Orchestration by Julian Langdon. Concept by Ali McGregor. Director and Dramaturg, Sarah Giles.
2020
Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Opera House, The Drama Theatre
No Pay? No Way! by Dario Fo adapted by Marieke Hardy.
2018
Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Opera House, The Drama Theatre
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, adapted by Francis Greenslade with Sarah Giles
Victorian Opera
Lorelei. Music by Julian Langdon, Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Lyrics by Casey Benetto and Gillian Cosgriff. Orchestration by Julian Langdon. Concept by Ali McGregor. Director and Dramaturg, Sarah Giles.
2017
Sydney Theatre Company and State Theatre of South Australia
The Popular Mechanicals by Tony Taylor and Keith Robinson.
2016
Malthouse Theatre Company
Blaque Showgirls by Nakkiah Lui.
Melbourne Theatre Company
Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee.
Sydney Festival and Sydney Chamber Opera
O Mensch by Pascal Dusapin, libretto by Friedrich Nietzsche.
2015
State Theatre of South Australia
The Popular Mechanicals by Tony Taylor and Keith Robinson.
2014
Sydney Festival and Sydney Chamber Opera
Doule Bill: Pas à Pas – Nulle Part By György Kurtág, libretto by Samuel Beckett. Into the Little Hill by George Benjmain, libretto by Martin Crimp.
Sydney Theatre Company
Perplex by Marius Von Mayenburg.
2013
Sydney Theatre Company
Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Return Season and Tour to Paramatta Riverside, Woolongong Theatre.
2012
Sydney Theatre Company
Mariage Blanc by Tadeusz Różewicz in a new adaptation by Melissa Bubnic.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
3rd Year Acting Students
The Farm by David Gieselmann
West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
3rd Year Acting Students
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre adapted by Tanya Ronder.
2011
The Griffin Theatre, Sydney
The Ugly One by Marius Von Mayenburg
Produced by Arts Radar and Griffin Independent
Sydney Theatre Company
Money Shots by Duncan Graham, Rita Kalnejais, Angus Cerini, Tahli Corin and Zoe Pepper
The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney
K.I.J.E. by Joanna Erskine. Eliza Oceana and Crow Crow Production in association with Tamaramma Rock Surfers
Sydney Theatre Company
Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron
2010
The Australian Chamber Orchestra
Kreutzer VS Kreutzer By Laura Wade performed with The Kreutzer Sonata by Leoš Janáček and The Kretuzer Sonata by Bethoven. Lead Violinist: Richard Tongetti
The Griffin Theatre, Sydney
The Pigeons by David Geiselmann
Produced by Pearly Productions and Griffin Independent
Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne
That Face by Polly Stenham
2009
Theatre Forward and NIDA
The Bear as part of The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov translated by Michael Frayn
The New Theatre, Sydney
The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan
2008
The Space, NIDA
The Bald Soprano, by Eugène Ionesco
The Space, NIDA
Face to the Wall by Martin Crimp
2007
Short & Sweet Festival; Melbourne
Spots by Steven Hopley
The Arts Centre; The George Fairfax Studio
La Mama, Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne
The Maids by Jean Genet
Produced by merge and see theatre
Positions, Awards and Grants
2013 Sydney Theatre Company: Co-Resident Director
2013 The Mike Walsh Fellowship: Major Fellowship Recipient
2013 The Gloria’s: Fellowship Recipient
2011 Sydney Theatre Company: The Richard Wherrett Fellow
The Richard Wherrett Fellow is a Director and Artist in Residence at The Sydney Theatre Company. The RW Fellow enables a director to develop their craft, gain experience and benefit from mentorship of the Company’s Artistic Team.
2011 Sydney Theatre Awards: Best Direction of an Independent Production
for The Ugly One by Marius Von Mayenburg.
2011 The Australia Council for The Arts: recipient of the ArtStart Grant.
2009 Griffin Theatre Company: Affiliate Director in Residence
In 2009 The Affiliate Director position was created to provide a recent graduate from NIDA, who had excelled in the postgraduate directing stream, an opportunity to develop both their directorial and dramaturgical skills within a company context.
Assistant Director
2013
Sydney Theatre Company
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
Director: Simon Phillips.
2010
Sydney Theatre Company
Long Days Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neil
Director: Andrew Upton
2009
Sydney Theatre Company
Tot Mom by Stephen Soderbergh
Director Stephen Soderbergh
The Griffin Theatre Company
Strange Attractor by Sue Smith
Director: Nick Marchand
Sydney Theatre Company
Optimsim after Voltaire by Tom Wright
Director: Michael Kantor
Co-Production between The Malthouse Theatre, The 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, The Sydney Theatre Company and the 2010 Sydney Festival
2008
NIDA
The Kitchen by Sir Arnold Wesker
Director: Tony Knight
2007
Melbourne Theatre Company
The History Boys by Allan Bennett
Director: Peter Evans
Education
2008
Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art – Directing; The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
2004
Bachelor of Arts (Double major: Italian and History) The University of Melbourne