TN Directors Announced!

Mercury's Wings' Twelfth Night will be directed by acclaimed theatre professional, Jennifer Flowers, who will be ably assisted by MWTC Artistic Director Claudine Stephen-Smith. Now these are two impressive ladies! Check out these CVs!

Jennifer Flowers - Director

Jennifer Flowers is an actor/director/teacher.

Directing Credits:

Molly Sweeney; Top Dogs; Antigone; Broken Glass; Oz Shorts; Replays; Dancing at Lughnasa for the Queensland Theatre Company. Morning Sacrifice.

The Glass Menagerie; Amigos (&National Tour ) Associate to Cate Blanchett’s production of the Year of Magical Thinking for the Sydney Theatre Company.(Touring Director National Tour 2008/2009.

There Goes the Neighbourhood; The Kiss of the Spiderwoman; The Idiot; Burn This; Sex: Cubed for La Boite Theatre. Dream Hunters; The Frozen Toes of Ignatius Rose; Prince Cinders; Virtually Richard; Score; Co-directed for Expressions Dance Company.

Dangerous Liasons; The Winter's Tale; Shakespeare Unzipped;The Arabian Nights for QUT

The Man from Mukinupin for USQ.

As You Like It for Harvest Rain Theatre Company.

The Soldier's Tale for QPAC.

Acting Credits :

Doubt (& National Tour);The Lady in the Van ; The Crucible STC.

Mrs Warren's Profession; The Skin of our Teeth; Honour; After the Ball (& National Tour);The Tempest; The Marriage of Figaro; Julius Caesar; Arcadia;Simpatico;The Gift of the Gorgon; The Shaughraun; Romeo and Juliet; Mrs Klein; The Crucible; The Cherry Orchard; Season's Greetings The Glass Menagerie; Hotel Sorrento A Cheery Soul(& Adelaide Festival) Ghosts; Dinkum Assorted for the Queensland Theatre Company.

Georgia; Supermarket Pavane; The Homecoming; Traitors; Mary Barnes for La Boite.

Othello; Antony and Cleopatra ; As You Like It for Grin & Tonic Theatre Company.

The Removalists; Bartholomew Fair; Private Lives; Hedda Gabler; Design For Living; Trumpets and Rasberries; Tartuffe; Summer; Europe; The Old Selection; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for TN! Theatre Company.

The Misanthrope; Macbeth; Madam's Late Mother; The Chairs; The Proposal; The Human Voice for the Brisbane Actor's Company.

The Soldier's Tale; Summer of the Aliens; Legends; for QPAC

Awards:

Matilda Awards for Excellence in Acting/Directing;1988;1992;1996;2000.Nomination Helpmann Award Best Actress Doubt STC 2007.

Peer Assessment Panel Arts Queensland 1990

Board Member TN! Theatre Company 1988-1991

Board Member QTC 1996-2003.

Churchill Fellowship 2005

Claudine Stephen-Smith – Co-Director (MWTC Artistic Director)

Claudine had a 10 yr career in Europe as a professional ballet & contemporary dancer, performing lead roles in musical theatre including Anita in West Side Story and Peggy Sue in Buddy Holly, before turning her energies to directing.

Claudine has completed LAMDA’s Shakespeare course and NIDA’s post-graduate program. Since then, she has directed most MWTC productions, to critical acclaim.

These include: Much Ado About Nothing with 8 Gold Coast Area Theatre Awards nominations, Sweet Phoebe by Michael Gow, R U Hmlt? devised by James Anderson & Claudine, Endgame by Samuel Beckett and Art by Yasmina Reza.

Commissions/partnerships include Gold Coast Dancers Company A Balancing Act, The Selfish Giant, Queensland Theatre of Puppetry Bedtime Stories, and GCCC Ugly Duckling to commemorate the sculpture by Donna Marcus in Musgrave Park. Claudine will direct the upcoming production of Carbon Dating by Ron Elisha for the IGNITION project with the Arts Centre Gold Coast, touring to the Judith Wright Centre Brisbane, and regional Queensland.