Simon Stone (director)

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Simon Stone with the Nestroy Theater Prize as best director (2015)

Simon Stone (* 1984 in Basel ) is an Australian - Swiss theater , film and opera director , author and actor .

Life

Simon Stone was born in Basel, his family first moved to Cambridge ( UK ), in 1996 they moved to Melbourne , where he studied at the University of Melbourne at the Victoria College of the Arts and worked as an actor, author and theater director.

In 2007 he founded The Hayloft Project , a theater company for which he adapted, among others, Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, Thyestes von Seneca , Platonow and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov and Der Suicide by Nikolai Erdman . In 2011 he became resident director at the Belvoir Theater in Sydney , for which he wrote and staged a new version of Henrik Ibsen's Wild Duck , for example . With this production he made a guest appearance at the Nationaltheatret in Oslo at the International Ibsen Festival in 2012, at the Wiener Festwochen in 2013 and at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam , where the production was awarded an audience award. Subsequently, around 2014 he was invited to the Oberhausen Theater as a guest director with a staging of Orestie , with the Toneelgroep Amsterdam he staged Euripides Medea .

In 2013 he made the contribution Reunion for the Australian anthology The Turning , the film was invited to the 2014 Berlinale . His film The Daughter with Geoffrey Rush and Miranda Otto , directed by Stone and written based on Ibsen’s Wildente, was screened at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2015 Venice International Film Festival .

Since 2015 he has been in- house director at Theater Basel under the management of Andreas Beck . As part of the 2015 Nestroy Theater Prize , he was honored in the Best Director category for his production by John Gabriel Borkman at the Vienna Akademietheater in coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen and the Theater Basel. His staging of The Three Sisters at Theater Basel was voted play of the year in 2017 in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater heute . He was nominated in the Newcomer category at the 2017 International Opera Awards .

In the 2016/17 season he made his debut at the Basel Theater as an opera director with Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt , at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 he directed the opera Lear by Aribert Reimann.

At the beginning of 2018 his play Hotel Strindberg was premiered after August Strindberg at the Vienna Akademietheater with Martin Wuttke , Franziska Hackl and Caroline Peters , among others . In 2019 the play was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen .

At the Berliner Ensemble he staged the piece he wrote, A Greek Trilogy , based on Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Die Troerinnen und Die Bacchen by Euripides. The world premiere took place in October 2018 with Stefanie Reinsperger , Caroline Peters, Constanze Becker , Martin Wuttke and Tilo Nest, among others . It was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage 2019 .

At the 2019 Salzburg Festival he staged Cherubinis Médée with Jelena Stichina in the title role and under the musical direction of Thomas Hengelbrock .

Awards (selection)

Nominations (selection)

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

  • 2002–2003: MDA (TV series)
  • 2002–2005 Blue Heelers (TV series, two episodes, various roles)
  • 2006: Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia
  • 2006: Kokoda
  • 2009: Rush (TV series, one episode)
  • 2009: Balibo
  • 2009: City Homicide (TV series, one episode)
  • 2010: Blame
  • 2011: The Eye of the Storm
  • 2012: Being Venice

As a director

  • 2013: The Turning - Reunion
  • 2015: The Daughter

As a screenwriter

  • 2015: The Daughter

Web links

Commons : Simon Stone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Burgtheater Vienna: Simon Stone . Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Simon Stone: "Laughter is stolen from our mouths" . Article from January 24, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018.
  3. ^ Nestroys: Wuttke and Orth are "Best Actors" . November 2, 2015; accessed on January 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Joachim Meyerhoff voted "Actor of the Year" . Article dated August 31, 2017, accessed January 26, 2018.
  5. ^ Theater Basel: Simon Stone . Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - Hotel Strindberg. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Berliner Ensemble shows “A Greek Trilogy”: The murmur of great perplexity . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  8. ^ "A Greek trilogy" at the Berliner Ensemble: "I'll get the saw" . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ Nestroy Prize 2018: The nominations . OTS announcement of October 10, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Swiss director, writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel