David Berthold is an Australian theatre director, who has also been artistic director of several major Australian arts organisations.
Berthold was born in Maitland, New South Wales.[1]
He spent some years training as an opera singer, and won the Joan Sutherland Scholarship at the Sydney Opera House.[citation needed].
Berthold has been director of several theatre companies in Australia.[2]
He began his career as associate director of Sydney Theatre Company from 1994 to 1999,[3] before being appointed artistic director and CEO of Australian Theatre for Young People in 1999. He then took up the post of artistic director and CEO of Griffin Theatre Company from 2003 until 2006.[4][5]
Berthold was artistic director and CEOofLa Boite Theatre Company from 2008 until 2014,[6][5] before being appointed as artistic director of the Brisbane Festival in 2014, serving in that role from 2015[3] until 2019.[5]
Since January 2020 and as of April 2024[update], Berthold has been artistic director in residence at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.[5]
Berthold is a member of the NSW Government's Theatre and Musical Theatre Arts Advisory Board,[7] on the Board of Australian Plays Transform,[8] a Trustee of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award,[9] on the judging panel of the Sydney Theatre Awards,[10] and chair of the Judging Panel of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.[11]
In 2006, Berthold was nominated for a BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Direction of a Play, for his London West End production Holding the Man.[12]
In 2010, Berthold won a Matilda Award for his "repositioning of La Boite Theatre Company and his direction of Hamlet".[13]
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Productions for Sydney Theatre Company playing at The Wharf and the Sydney Opera House:
His productions for Griffin Theatre Company include world premieres of:
For ATYP his productions include:
For QTC, he directed:
