Nationality Australian Role Director Name Neil Armfield | Occupation Creative director | |
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Full Name Neil Geoffrey Armfield Organization Nimrod Theatre CompanyState Theatre Company (SA)Queensland Theatre CompanySydney Theatre CompanySeymour GroupMelbourne Theatre CompanyOpera AustraliaWelsh National OperaCanadian Opera CompanyZurich OperaEnglish National OperaThe Royal Opera, Covent GardenLyric Opera of ChicagoHouston Grand Opera Parents Len Armfield, Nita Armfield Awards AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominations AACTA Award for Best Direction, Golden Bear Movies Candy, Holding the Man, Twelfth Night, The Castanet Club, Edens Lost Similar People Luke Davies, Tommy Murphy, Timothy Conigrave, Craig Stott, Ryan Corr | ||
The book of everything a director s note from neil armfield
Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera. His homosexuality has informed much of his work.
Contents
- The book of everything a director s note from neil armfield
- Holding the man neil armfield featurette
- Biography
- Company B work
- Opera Australia work
- Film
- Australian
- International
- References
Holding the man neil armfield featurette
Biography
Born in Sydney, Armfield is the third and youngest son of Len, a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's Biscuits factory, and Nita Armfield. He was brought up in the suburb of Concord adjacent to Exile Bay. He was educated at the Homebush Boys High School and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1977, and became Co-Artistic Director of the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. He joined South Australia's Lighthouse Theatre before returning to Sydney in 1985, where he was involved in the purchase of Belvoir St Theatre and the formation of Company B, becoming its first Artistic Director in 1994.
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 has subsequently directed under the new Artistic Director Ralph Myers.
Company B work
For Company B, he has directed
Opera Australia work
For Opera Australia he has directed works such as Jenůfa, The Eighth Wonder, Tristan und Isolde and Billy Budd. In 2013 he directed Opera Australia's first full-length presentation of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, in Melbourne.
Film
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