CAST & CREATIVE
Naomi is a theatre and opera director and teaching artist. Recent credits: Associate Director – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, &Juliet (Michael Cassel Group); Director – Not Now Not Ever – Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Misogyny Speech with Julia Gillard and guests (Michael Cassel Group); The Waiting Room (Melbourne Theatre Company); Can You Hear Colour? (Patch Theatre/ Adelaide Festival), Yo Diddle Diddle (Patch Theatre); Peter and The Wolf with Miriam Margoyles and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Adelaide Festival/Foxtel); The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (CDP); Cautionary Tales for Children (Arena Theatre) nominated for Helpmann for Best Children’s Production; Hamlet, Actor on a Box (Sydney Theatre Company), The Season at Sarsaparilla, Who’s Afraid of The Working Class, Traps (VCA); Rabbit Hole (Red Stitch Theatre); Falling Awake (Milkcrate Theatre); How To Kill Your Husband, Noye’s Fludde (Victorian Opera); Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute, Barber of Seville (Opera Australia Schools); Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare). Resident Director: Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, Carmen, Lakme (Opera Australia) Assistant Director: In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play, Don’s Party, Poor Boy (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company); August Osage County, Ninety (Melbourne Theatre Company) As Artistic Director: Patch Theatre Company. Creative Director: Wish Three More Wishes (Cochlear Implant Vocal empowerment ARC Research Project); Future Makers (Music Viva). Teaching Artist: MTC, STC, Opera Queensland, Arts Centre Melbourne, Bell Shakespeare, Collarts, IAMS (London), RADA (London), VCA, NIDA, St Martins, Lincoln Center NYC. Naomi was awarded The Gloria Dawn/Gloria Payten and Mike Walsh Fellowships, participating in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She co-authored a Platform Paper on the value of Arts Education. Naomi is currently training to become a psychologist.