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CRAIG ILOTT
Nationality: Australian
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd
Craig Ilott is an award-winning Australian theatre director. A graduate of QUT and NIDA he started his career in Sydney's independent theatre industry, founding his own company, Albedo Theatre, which created a number of award-winning productions including The Decameron, Dealer's Choice and Edmond. In 2006 Craig won a Green Room Award - Best Direction of a Musical, for the Australian production ofHedwig and the Angry Inch, which was also awarded Best Musical at the Sydney Theatre Awards. He went on to direct Love Song for Melbourne Theatre Company, The Pig Iron People for Sydney Theatre Company and The Pillowman for Company B Belvoir, which was nominated for six Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Director and Best Production. In 2010 he was commissioned by Sydney Festival and Spiegeltent International to create Smoke & Mirrors. The production had sell-out seasons at two Sydney Festivals, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Melbourne Arts Centre and the Auckland Festival. Smoke & Mirrors went on to win three Helpmann Awards including Best New Australian Work. In 2012 Craig directed the highly acclaimed production of La Clique Royale for The Famous Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Festival and was appointed Creative Director for Pacha Sydney @ The Ivy, the flagship Merivale Group venue, directing site specific performance and entertainment. He also co-founded Lunar Hare Productions, a company dedicated to the creation of new work, which currently has two new works in development. Most recently he directed Velvet for Adelaide Fringe Festival, La Boheme for Opera Queensland and Band Of Magicians for the Sydney Festival. Other credits include Diamonds are for Trevor for Arts Centre Melbourne, Misanthropology at the Sydney Festival, Shakespeare's R & J and Rainbow's End for Riverside Theatres, I Get The Music in You for Ensemble, and The Composer is Dead for Sydney Opera House.
Research: http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/233755
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Decameron, The Parnassus Den Smoke & Mirrors Storyline Stranger I AmDecameron, The
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Some of the best of Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval stories about life in plague-ravaged, 14th century Italy
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Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, NSW
Nov 2002
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adaptation
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24653
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Ongoing play-reading event designed to showcase new work by Australian writers
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[reading] The Friend in Hand, Glebe, NSW
01 Oct 2011
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In 2010, Sydney Festival and the producers of La Clique unveil a brand new show Smoke & Mirrors. Leave everyday life behind, enter the seductive world of The Famous Spiegeltent and abandon yourself to a lavish and lyrical adventure of the fantastical kind.
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Created by: Craig Ilott And Iota
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The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney, NSW
07 Jan 2010
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Sydney Festival 2010
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110 min vaudeville
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84029
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set to an original score by acclaimed contemporary composers iOTA and Caitlin Park. Combining modern theatre techniques and breath-taking aerial antics, this exciting and electric production centres around a young woman's journey of discovery and her will to live
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NIDA Theatres, 215 Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2033
16 Oct 2015
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