TRAINING

• IDC, New York City.  Intimacy Training Level 1 and 2
• NIDA Post Graduate (Directing)
• BA Honours (Performance Studies) University of Western Sydney
• Theatre Nepean BA (Performing Arts, acting) University of Western Sydney
• Projekt Istropolitana World Theatre International Training Festival, Slovakia.

COMPANY POSITIONS HELD

2015-16 Artistic Director Milk Crate Theatre
2014- Darlinghurst Theatre Advisory Member
2010-11 Associate Artist, Belvoir
2009-10 Inaugural Resident Director, Griffin Theatre Company
2008-10 Bsharp Artistic Committee member
2000- present Founding member of Milk Crate Theatre Company
1998-02 Founding member of Darlinghurst Theatre Company & Co-Company Manager

* In Development:
• Date 3, A short film written by Cristabel Sved in development with Kate Box and Angela Betzein.
Cast: Kate Box and Daniel Henshall
• Sweet AF A new play by screen/playwright Michele Lee.

Actors’ Centre Australia
Director – Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill. Graduating 3RD Year Production 2022
– When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell 2023
– A Conversation by David Williamson, 2022
– Ivanov by Anton Chekhov

Sydney Opera House
Associate director – Claudel. Written by Wendy Beckett. Associate director to Wendy Becket and choreographer Meryl Tankard. Playhouse (2021)

Sydney Festival
• Director – Alice In Wonderland adapted by Mary Anne Butler. Riverside Theatres Parramatta and National Tour (2018)

Stalker Theatre Company
• Director (with David Clarkson) & Dramaturg – Creature – An adaptation of Dot and the Kangaroo by John Romeril. With Ursula Yovich. Sydney Opera House & Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. National and International Tour, 2017/2018
• Creature Out of the Box Festival, Lyric Theatre QPAC Brisbane, 2016

Casula Powerhouse
Director/Dramaturg – Flame Tree St by Donna Abela. Creative Development 2017/2018

Milk Crate Theatre

Artistic Director 2015-16
• Under Construction – An International Theatre Exchange between Theatre of the Oppressed New York City (TONYC) and Milk Crate Theatre. Designed by Kate Rubin, Exec Director and myself. A forum theatre show,workshops and talks.
• Director: Feast – collaboration btwn MCT and Branch Nebula
Carriageworks, 2016
• Director: First Times – collaboration btwn MCT and Branch Nebula
Carriageworks, 2015
• No Place Like, River Side Theatres, 2014
• Director – Belonging, Bay Bay 20 Carriageworks, 2012

Belvoir Theatre
• Dramaturg – Elektra/Orestes by Jada Alberts and Anne-Louise Sarks, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks. Upstairs Theatre, 2015
• Director – The Business by Jonathan Gavin from Gorky’s Vassa Zheleznova, Upstairs Theatre, 2011
• Director – Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth, Bsharp Downstairs Theatre 2010
• Assistant Director – Gwen In Purgatory by Tommy Murphy. Director Neil Armfield. I toured show to La Boite and Geelong Performing Arts Centre. I was part of the script development workshop, 2010
• Director – Buy Guns by Gareth Ellis. Rehearsed read with Lynette Curran & Russel Keiffel, 2008.

Sydney Theatre Company
• Director – Before/After by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Wharf 2, 2011
• Director –The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh,Wharf 2, 2010
• Director – The Overwhelming by JT Rogers. Rehearsed read & lead post show Q &A, Backstage, Sydney Theatre Company, 2009
• Assistant Director – Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Director, Tamas Ascher. Overseeing show in Hungarian director Tamas Ascher’s absence and giving notes. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxburg, Jackie Weaver, John Bell, Sandy Gore, Anthony phelan, Andrew Tighe. 2010
• Assistant Director – The Serpent’s Teeth by Daniel Keene. Directors Pamela Rabe & Tim Maddock, with the STC Actors Company. Drama Theatre, Opera House, 2008
• Patrick White Award: Reader/assessor for the final shortlist, 2010, 2014, 2020

Griffin
• Director – Dealing With Clair by Martin Crimp. I adapted script in collaboration with Martin Crimp for a contemporary Australian audience, 2009
• Director – The Fates – Spin by Karara Bell-Wykes, with Bruce Spence & Deborah Kennedy, 2009

ATYP
• Director – Quay To The City – ATYP in partnership with Sydney Living Museums, SHFA and The Big Dig. Contemporary performance meets history in a theatrical walking tour of The Rocks, 2014

Playwriting Australia
• Director/Dramaturg – Remains Maxine Mellor, 2014
• Director/Dramaturg: National Script Workshop, Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography Declan Greene & A Little Piece For Her Sister Jane Montgomery-Griffiths, 2012
• National playwrights submissions 2015 Reader/assessor.

Darlinghurst Theatre
• Director/Co-writer – Miss Julie by August Strindberg, a new version by Cristabel Sved & Kate Box, with Kate Box as Miss Julie. Darlinghurst Theatre, 2012
• Director/Dramaturg: The Golden Mullet performed by Drew Fairly – toured to Edinburgh, New York and Adelaide Festivals, 2001-03
• Director – The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone. Inaugural production, with Marta Dusseldorp and Alan Flower, 2001

NIDA
• Director – One Flesh – Graduating Playwrights production, 2011

Seymour Centre
• Director – The Book of Job–Writers Onstage, with Barry Otto & Lynette Curran. Seymour Centre, 2009
• Director – The Undertaker’s Bride, with Maeve Dermody & Graeme Rhodes. Writers Onstage. Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, 2008

Arts Centre Melbourne
• Director – Jack Rabbit by Gareth Ellis. Short & Sweet, Fairfax Studio, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2006
Museum Victoria
• Director/Writer: interactive exhibition performances pieces for Treasure’s Launch Exhibition 2004

Plan B Project (Theatre project for men recently released from prison)
• Dramaturg – Rock ‘N’ a Hard Place Russell St Watch House, Melbourne, 2005
• Dramaturg –Til Hell Freezes Horti Hall, Carlton, Melbourne, 2004

Red Stitch Actors Theatre
• Director – The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2003

Teaching: Actors Centre Australia, NIDA Playwriting, Griffin Ambassadors’, NIDA Open Program, University of Western Sydney, Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney Theatre School, National Theatre, Melbourne

Intimacy Directing:
Antigone by Damien Ryan from the play by Sophocles. Directed by Damien Ryan, ACA,2023
The Libertine, Stephen Jeffreys. Directed by Lizzie Schebesta, ACA, 2023