Andrew Upton (born c. 1966) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
As a playwright, Upton penned adaptations of Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Cyrano de Bergerac and Don Juan (with Marion Potts) for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC)[1] and Maxim Gorky's The Philistines for London's Royal National Theatre. Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen. The Cherry Orchard (Вишнëвый сад or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov 's last Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand based on the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac. Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue ( Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre) is a French play by Molière, based on the legend of Don Juan The Sydney Theatre Company ( STC) is one of Australia 's most well-known and notable theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre near Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( In Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в ( &ndash June 18, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим The Royal National Theatre, located on the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. [1][2] His original play Riflemind[3], with Hugo Weaving as an aging rock star planning a comeback tour, opened at the STC on 5 October 2007[4] to favourable reviews[5]. Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960 is a Nigerian-born English, although naturalised Australian film stage and voice actor best known for films such as For 2008, Upton has been appointed as the STC's artistic director.
In 1999, Upton wrote and directed Bangers which starred his wife, Academy Award winning actress Cate Blanchett. The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s For the sausage see Bangers and mash Bangers is a 1999 Australian Short film featuring Cate Blanchett. Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969 is an Academy Award -winning Australian Actress and Stage director. In 2006, he wrote the film Gone which was directed by Ringan Ledwidge. The year 2006 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest Gone is a 2007 British thriller directed by Ringan Ledwidge starring Shaun Evans, Scott Mechlowicz, and Amelia Warner. He wrote the libretto to Alan John's opera Through the Looking Glass which premiered in May 2008. A libretto is the text used in an extended Musical work such as an Opera, Operetta, Masque, sacred or secular Oratorio and Alan John (born 7 May 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian Composer. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Through the Looking Glass is a Chamber opera by the Australian composer Alan John to a Libretto by Andrew Upton,based on
With his wife, Cate Blanchett, Upton has formed Dirty Films to develop feature projects. Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969 is an Academy Award -winning Australian Actress and Stage director. [2]
Upton and Blanchett were married on 29 December 1997. Their first child, Dashiell John, was born on 3 December 2001; their second child, Roman Robert, was born on 23 April 2005; their third son, Ignatius Martin, was born on 13 April 2008.
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