About ChristopherChristopher is currently undertaking MPhil research relating to his on-going work as a stage director, pursuing new techniques for the interpretation and performance of Shakespeare by actors and directors.
Over the last ten years, Christopher has collaborated with both leading and emerging Australian playwrights as director, dramaturg and in his former role as Literary Manager of Sydney’s Griffin Theatre company, on the development and production of many exciting new works of Australian theatre. |
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He has worked in a diverse range of environments including the subsidised and commercial theatres, television production and education on dozens of projects with staff sizes ranging from 2 to 100 and budgets ranging from five thousand dollars to four million dollars in roles ranging from Administrative Assistant to Artistic Director.
He has directed the world premiere productions of Whore by Rick Viede (Belvoir Street BSharp), the musical Las Vegas (Confidential) at the State Theatre, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy by Caleb Lewis at the Darlinghurst Theatre and Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, The Department Store by Justin Fleming (based on the novel Au Bonheur des Dames by Emile Zola) for Parnassus Den at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Navigating Flinders by Don Reid at the Ensemble Theatre and Mr Bailey’s Minder by Debra Oswald for Griffin Theatre; a production which broke the box office record for Griffin and later toured throughout Australia.
Most recently he directed The Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production of Macbeth.
For his own company, Tangent Productions, Christopher has directed Tony Kushner’s epic Homebody/Kabul at Belvoir Street BSharp. And the Sydney premiere of Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell. His re-interpretation of Marlowe’s Edward II was presented at the Adelaide Fringe and of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (presented as The Nightmare) at the Darlinghurst Theatre.
Christopher has directed the graduating acting students at NIDA in Moliere’s The Hypochondriac, at Singapore’s La Salle College of the Arts in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sichuan, at James Cook University in Don’s Party and at Flinders University Drama Centre in Angels in America, The Game of Dice from The Mahabarata and Dacia Maraini’s feminist re-imagining of The Oresteia, Dreams of Clytemnestra. For Australian Theatre for Young People he created the world premiere production of What the Umbrella Did Next, and for Ashfield Youth Theatre, an adaptation of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. He has also tutored the acting students at London’s Rose Bruford College in acting Shakespeare and verse speaking, and had taught acting at The Actor’s Centre Shopfront Youth Arts Centre in Sydney.
Christopher has been awarded the Travelling Scholarship by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to support his current research.
Companies with which Christopher has worked include leading Australian and international cultural organisations such as The Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, The National Institute of Dramatic Art, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s The Really Useful Company, LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore), Opera Australia and the Chicago Lyric Opera.
He has directed the world premiere productions of Whore by Rick Viede (Belvoir Street BSharp), the musical Las Vegas (Confidential) at the State Theatre, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy by Caleb Lewis at the Darlinghurst Theatre and Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, The Department Store by Justin Fleming (based on the novel Au Bonheur des Dames by Emile Zola) for Parnassus Den at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Navigating Flinders by Don Reid at the Ensemble Theatre and Mr Bailey’s Minder by Debra Oswald for Griffin Theatre; a production which broke the box office record for Griffin and later toured throughout Australia.
Most recently he directed The Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production of Macbeth.
For his own company, Tangent Productions, Christopher has directed Tony Kushner’s epic Homebody/Kabul at Belvoir Street BSharp. And the Sydney premiere of Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell. His re-interpretation of Marlowe’s Edward II was presented at the Adelaide Fringe and of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (presented as The Nightmare) at the Darlinghurst Theatre.
Christopher has directed the graduating acting students at NIDA in Moliere’s The Hypochondriac, at Singapore’s La Salle College of the Arts in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sichuan, at James Cook University in Don’s Party and at Flinders University Drama Centre in Angels in America, The Game of Dice from The Mahabarata and Dacia Maraini’s feminist re-imagining of The Oresteia, Dreams of Clytemnestra. For Australian Theatre for Young People he created the world premiere production of What the Umbrella Did Next, and for Ashfield Youth Theatre, an adaptation of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. He has also tutored the acting students at London’s Rose Bruford College in acting Shakespeare and verse speaking, and had taught acting at The Actor’s Centre Shopfront Youth Arts Centre in Sydney.
Christopher has been awarded the Travelling Scholarship by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to support his current research.
Companies with which Christopher has worked include leading Australian and international cultural organisations such as The Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, The National Institute of Dramatic Art, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s The Really Useful Company, LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore), Opera Australia and the Chicago Lyric Opera.