Neil Armfield
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Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.[1]
Biography
Born in
In April 2008 he was selected as a participant in the Towards a creative Australia strand of the Australia 2020 Summit. Armfield announced in 2009 that the 2010 season would be his last as Belvoir Artistic Director, but he subsequently directed under his successor as Artistic Director Ralph Myers.[8]
Armfield was appointed joint artistic director of the Adelaide Festival with Rachel Healy in 2017, with their original two-year term extended twice to 2023. This made them the longest serving artistic directors in the Festival's history.[9]
Company B work
For Company B, he has directed
- Signal Driver
- State of Shock
- Aftershocks
- Master Builder
- The Diary of a Madman
- Diving for Pearls
- The Tempest
- Ghosts
- Hate
- No Sugar
- Hamlet
- The Blind Giant is Dancing
- The Alchemist
- WASP
- The Seagull
- The Governor's Family
- As You Like It
- The Judas Kiss
- The Small Poppies
- Suddenly Last Summer
- The Marriage of Figaro
- Emma's Nose
- Aliwa
- My Zinc Bed
- Waiting for Godot
- The Underpants
- The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Gulpilil
- The Spook
- The Fever
- Cloudstreet
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- Dead Heart
- A Cheery Soul
- Night on Bald Mountain
- Stuff Happens
- The Adventures of Snugglepot &
Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom - Keating!
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Opera Australia work
For
Ring Cycle
, in Melbourne.
Companies worked with
- Nimrod Theatre Company
- State Theatre Company of South Australia
- Queensland Theatre Company
- Sydney Theatre Company
- Seymour Group
- Melbourne Theatre Company
- Opera Australia
- Welsh National Opera
- Canadian Opera Company
- Zurich Opera
- English National Opera
- The Royal Opera, Covent Garden
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Houston Grand Opera
Film
- 1986: Twelfth Night
- 1991: The Castanet Club
- 2006: Candy
- 2015: Holding the Man
Awards and honours
Australian
- Officer of the Order of Australia for "... service to the arts, nationally and internationally, as a director of theatre, opera and film, and as a promoter of innovative Australian productions including Australian Indigenous drama." (January 2007)[10]
- Honorary Doctor of Literature at the University of Sydney (April 2006)
- Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Director and Best Production
- 1989, Major Award for Significant Contribution to Sydney Theatre
- Several Green Room Awards
- AFI Award for Best Director (Mini-series Edens Lost)
- Several Helpmann Awards
- Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts in Australia
International
- Dublin Festival, Best Production (Cloudstreet)
- Dora Mavor Moore Award, Canada, Best Director and Best Musical for Billy Budd
- Barclays Best Opera Production Award (Billy Budd)
- Jesse Kempf
References
- ^ Jana Wendt, "The Diary of a Maestro: Meeting Neil Armfield", The Monthly (Australia), September 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2013
- ^ Homebush Boys High School Magazine: 4. 1972.
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- ^ The Stage – UK Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Limelight “Opera invades your dreams,” Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ISBN 0-415-18731-1.
- ISBN 1-86373-898-3.
- ^ Steve Dow, "Au revoir, Belvoir", 6 December 2009. Armfield's family background on stevedow.com.au
- ^ "Extended Adelaide Festival Tenure for Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy".
- ^ "Officer of the Order of Australia Award" on itsanhonour.gov.au Retrieved 18 September 2013
External links
- Neil Armfield at IMDb
- ABC1(July 2010)
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