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Early life and education
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Career
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Other activities
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Recognition and awards
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Productions
5.1
Sydney Theatre Company
5.2
Griffin Theatre Company
5.3
La Boite Theatre Company
5.4
Australian Theatre for Young People
5.5
Queensland Theatre Company
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Other
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References
David Berthold
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australian theatre director
David Berthold is an Australian theatre director, who has also been artistic director of several major Australian arts organisations.
Early life and education
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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].
Career
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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]
Other activities
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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]
Recognition and awards
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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]
Productions
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Sydney Theatre Company
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Productions for Sydney Theatre Company playing at The Wharf and the Sydney Opera House:
Griffin Theatre Company
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His productions for Griffin Theatre Company include world premieres of:
La Boite Theatre Company
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Australian Theatre for Young People
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For ATYP his productions include:
Queensland Theatre Company
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For QTC, he directed:
Other
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Black Box (Paul Hodge), Queensland Performing Arts Centre, 2024.
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The Coronation of Poppea (Monterverdi and Elena Kats-Chernin). NIDA and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2023.
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Falsettos. NIDA, 2022
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Rolling Thunder Vietnam. Australian national tours, 2014, 2016 and 2023
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Mark Colvin's Kidney (Tommy Murphy) Belvoir, 2017
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Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare). NIDA, Sydney, 2014.
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Così (Louis Nowra). NIDA, Sydney, 2013.
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Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Opera Queensland.
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Holding the Man (adapted by Tommy Murphy from Timothy Conigrave's memoir). London's West End, produced by Daniel Sparrow and Mike Walsh, 2010.
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Edward the Second (Christopher Marlowe). QUT, Brisbane.
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The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute). NIDA, Sydney.
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Blackrock (Nick Enright). QUT, Brisbane.
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Low (Daniel Keene). Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin.
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The Fruits of Enlightenment (Leo Tolstoy). NIDA, Sydney
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All My Sons (Arthur Miller). Auckland Theatre Company, New Zealand.
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Road (Jim Cartwright). La Boite Theatre, Brisbane.
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini). Associate Director, Opera Queensland, Brisbane and tour.
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Noye's Fludde (Benjamin Britten). Noye's Fludde Opera.
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The Piper of Hamelin (John Rutter). Noye's Fludde Opera.
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Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare). University of Newcastle Drama Department.
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Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill). University of Newcastle Drama Department.
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Magic Afternoon (Wolfgang Bauer). University of Newcastle Drama Department.
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The Song Room (Louis Nowra). University of Newcastle Drama Department.
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Hansel and Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck). Assistant Director, English National Opera, London Coliseum.
References
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^ a b Bochenski, Natalie (16 February 2014). "David Berthold takes reins of Brisbane Festival".
^ "Top honour for teen actors". 20 July 2003.
^ a b c d "David Berthold". NIDA. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
^ "The David Berthold Era". 26 March 2015.
^ "Artform Advisory Boards". 26 June 2019.
^ "David Berthold". Australian Plays Transform.
^ "The Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award – Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation".
^ "Sydney Theatre Awards".
^ "Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting". 24 February 2020.
^ Dunn, Carrie (13 September 2010). "Karimloo, Boggess, Ellis, Smith All Nominated In First BWW:UK AWARDS!". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
^ Queensland Government Ministerial Media Statement: Matilda Awards for Brisbane's top theatre Queensland Government, Finance and Arts, The Honourable Rachel Nolan [Media statement] (8 March 2011)
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