MARION POTTS Director
DALE FERGUSON Set & Costume Designer
MATT SCOTT Lighting Designer
Marion is Malthouse Theatre’s Artistic Director. For Malthouse Theatre, Marion has directed Ugly Mugs, The Dragon, Hate, Wild Surmise, Blood Wedding, Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl and its return season at the Southbank Centre in London, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Sappho… in 9 fragments and Venus & Adonis (with Bell Shakespeare). Other theatre directing credits include: King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare); The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Playgrounds, Volpone and Don Juan (Sydney Theatre Company); Grace (Melbourne Theatre Company); and Equus and The Torrents Gary’s House (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Marion received the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2006.
Dale graduated from NIDA in 1989. Recent opera work; Otello for Cape Town Opera, Western Australia Opera and Queensland Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Houston Opera and Chicago Opera, Ariadne of Naxos for Welsh National Opera and Canadian Opera, The Marriage of Figaro and Eugene Onegin for Opera Australia. Theatre credits include; Night on Bald Mountain, Dance of Death, Exit the King, Rapture; The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Life Without Me, God of Carnage, The Sapphires, and August: Osage Country which received the Helpmann Award for Best Design.
For the past 20 years Matt has lit over 200 productions for theatre, opera and dance. Companies he has worked with include Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre, Opera Australia, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Expressions Dance Company, Queensland Ballet and New Zealand Opera. He has been nominated for and received numerous awards. He received a 2005 Helpmann Award for his lighting on Urinetown for Melbourne Theatre Company which followed his 2003 Helpmann Award win for The Blue Room, also for Melbourne Theatre Company.
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