Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO (born in 1955 or 1956)^[1][2] is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera. Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.

Born in Sydney, Armfield was the second of three boys. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 The son of a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's biscuit factory he was brought up in the suburb of Concord adjacent to Exile Bay. Concord is a Suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. He was educated at the (then) selective publicly funded Homebush Boys High School and the University of Sydney graduating in 1977 and became Co-Artistic Director of the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. Homebush Boys High School, founded in 1936 is a comprehensive public High school for boys The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia The Nimrod Theatre Company, in Nimrod Street Kings Cross Sydney, Australia, was founded by in 1970 by John Bell, Richard Wherrett He joined South Australia’s Lighthouse Theatre before returning to Sydney in 1985, where he was involved in the purchase of Belvoir St Theatre and the formation of Company B, becoming its first Artistic Director in 1994. Belvoir St Theatre was founded in 1984 by Sue Hill and Chris Westwood at Belvoir St Surry Hills, and is the home of Company B. Company B is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia.

In April 2008 he was selected as a participant in the Towards a creative Australia strand of the Australia 2020 Summit. The Australia 2020 Summit was a convention, referred to in Australian media as a summit, which was held on 19 - 20 April 2008

Contents 1 Company B Work 2 Companies worked with 3 Film 4 Awards and Honours 4.1 Australian 4.2 International 5 External links 6 References

Company B Work

For Company B, he has directed

Signal Driver State of Shock Aftershocks Master Builder The Diary of a Madman Diving for Pearls The Tempest Ghosts Hate No Sugar Hamlet The Blind Giant is Dancing

The Alchemist WASP The Seagull The Governor’s Family As You Like It The Judas Kiss The Small Poppies Suddenly Last Summer The Marriage of Figaro Emma’s Nose Aliwa My Zinc Bed

Waiting For Godot The Underpants The Lieutenant of Inishmore Gulpilil The Spook The Fever Cloudstreet Picasso at the Lapin Agile Dead Heart A Cheery Soul Night on Bald Mountain Stuff Happens Keating!

Companies worked with

• Nimrod Theatre Company
• State Theatre Company of South Australia
• Queensland Theatre Company
• Sydney Theatre Company
• Seymour Group
• Melbourne Theatre Company
• Opera Australia
• Welsh National Opera
• Canadian Opera Company
• Zurich Opera
• English National Opera
• Royal Opera Covent Garden
• Lyric Opera of Chicago

Film

• 1990 The Castanet Club
• 1987 Twelfth Night
• 2006 Candy starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush

Awards and Honours

Australian

• Officer of the Order of Australia for . The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely by him although Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 The Alchemist is a Comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally The Seagull ( Russian: "Чайка" ("Chayka" written in 1895 is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhov's As You Like It is a Pastoral Comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata (Trans The Marriage of Figaro or the Day of Madness) K Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for someone named Godot who never arrives The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hose by playwright Carl Sternheim. Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993 A Night on the Bald Mountain usually refers to one of two compositions—either a seldom performed early (1867 ' musical picture ' by Modest Mussorgsky, Stuff Happens is a play by David Hare, written in response to the Iraq War Keating! is a musical theatre production written by Casey Bennetto which portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister Paul The Nimrod Theatre Company, in Nimrod Street Kings Cross Sydney, Australia, was founded by in 1970 by John Bell, Richard Wherrett The State Theatre Company of South Australia is South Australia 's leading professional Theatre company. Queensland Theatre Company is the state's flagship professional theatre company headed up by multi-award winning playwright and director Michael Gow The Sydney Theatre Company ( STC) is one of Australia 's most well-known and notable theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre near The Melbourne Theatre Company, which is the oldest professional theatre in Australia, known popularly as MTC is based in the Ferrars Street complex in Southbank Victoria which Opera Australia which is based in Sydney, is Australia 's major Opera company Welsh National Opera ( WNO) is a touring Opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1946 The Canadian Opera Company (COC located in Toronto Ontario, is the largest opera company in Canada and the sixth largest in North America. Oper Zürich ( Zurich Opera) is an Opera company based in Zürich, Switzerland. English National Opera (ENO is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent This article is about the post-1945 opera company at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Covent Garden (Pronunciation kɒvʌnt is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading Opera companies in the United States. Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film adapted from Luke Davies 's novel entitled Candy A Novel of Love and Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008 was an Australian television and film actor Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951 is a Golden Globe - BAFTA - Emmy - AFI - and Academy Award -winning Australian actor Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition . . service to the arts, nationally and internationally, as a director of theatre, opera and film, and as a promoter of innovative Australian productions including Australian Indigenous drama. (January 2007) ^[3]
• Honorary Doctor of Literature at the University of Sydney (April 2006)^[4]
• Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Director and Best Production
• 1989, Major Award for Significant Contribution to Sydney Theatre
• several Green Room Awards
• AFI Award for Best Director (Mini-series Eden’s Lost)
• several Helpmann Awards
• Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts in Australia

International

• Dublin Festival, Best Production (Cloudstreet)
• Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Canada, Best Director and Best Musical for Billy Budd
• Barclays Best Opera Production Award (Billy Budd)
• Jesse Kempf

External links

• Neil Armfield at the Internet Movie Database

References

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