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JIM SHARMAN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    The Yellow Agency  

Background: Born, AustraliA. NIDA Graduate. Churchill Scholar. Artistic Director (1982) of the Adelaide Festival of Arts and Board Member (1996-2002); Artistic Director of Lighthouse (STC-SA) 1982/3. Nominated for AFI Award for ABC-TV Documentary on Patrick White: the Burning Piano. 2005 Helpmann Award for Best Director: Three Furies: Scenes from the life of Francis Bacon by Stephen Sewell. Musicals: Hair (Sydney, Melbourne, Boston, Tokyo); Jesus Christ Superstar (Australian tour, London), the Threepenny Opera (SOH Opening Season); the Rocky Horror Show (Original UK production, LA, NYC, Sydney); Chess (Sydney); the Wedding Song (Sydney); Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill (NIDA). Opera: Don Giovanni (OA); Voss (Meale/Malouf - Adelaide Festival & OA); the Rake's Progress (Stravinsky - OA); Creative Development of the Eighth Wonder (John/Watkins - OA); 1980 (AFA & SOSA), 1990 & 2005 (OA) Productions of Death in Venice (Benjamin Britten). 2009:Cosi fan tutte (Mozart Da Ponte) for OA and ABC-TV. Film & Television: Include: the Rocky Horror Picture Show (co-wrote screenplay); Patrick White's the Night the Prowler and the Burning Piano - 2 hr ABC-TV Documentary Portrait of Patrick White. Plays: Include: Shakespeare (As You Like It, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Tempest); Brecht (Mother Courage); Pinter (the Birthday Party, the Lover); Genet (the MAIDS, the Screens); Wedekind (Lulu); Sam Shepard (the Unseen Hand; the Tooth of Crime; A Lie of the Mind); Lorca (Blood Wedding); Strindberg (the Dance of Death, Dreamplay, Miss Julie); Orton: What the Butler Saw. Australian premieres and revivals: On Stage Oz and Terror Australis (Revue); Alex Buzo (Norm and Ahmed); Louis Nowra (Sunrise); Dorothy Hewitt (Pandora's Cross); David Williamson (the Removalists); David Malouf (Blood Relations); Major revivals and premieres of the stage work of Patrick White (the Season at Sarsaparilla, Big Toys, Netherwood and A Cheery Soul). Recent: 2005 OA Production of Death In Venice with Philip Langridge, conducted by Richard Hickox. Three Furies for Sydney, Auckland, Perth & Adelaide Festivals. 2009 Memoir: Blood and Tinsel for Melbourne University Publishing (MUP); Cosi fan tutte for Opera Australia and ABC-TV in 2009. Andy X will be released globally online as an internet musical in 2012.

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        Shadow & Splendour         Terra Australis