About the session

This session took place Thursday 10 December 2020, 12-1pm AEDT.

Daniel Fish is a New York-based director, best known for his 2019 production of OKLAHOMA! which transferred to Broadway from St. Ann’s Warehouse, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. This groundbreaking production was applauded for its casting and overall innovative approach to an American classic. This conversation will be a rare glimpse into the thinking and process behind creating an award winning, radical revival. Fish will also talk about his previous works, known for pushing the boundaries of traditional categories of performance. Hosted by Margot Fenley, this fascinating conversation with an internationally acclaimed director is not to be missed!

About the speakers

• Daniel Fish

  Daniel Fish is a New York-based director who makes work across the boundaries of theater, film, and opera. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays and found audio. His 2019 production of OKLAHOMA! transferred to Broadway from St. Ann’s Warehouse and won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.  Other recent work includes WHITE NOISE, inspired by the novel by Don DeLillo ( Ruhrfestspiele Recklingshausen, Theater Freiburg,  and  Skirball NYU),  Michael Gordon’s opera, ACQUANETTA (Prototype Festival), Don’t Look Back (The Chocolate Factory), Who Left This Fork Here (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Onassis Center), Ted Hearne’s The Source (BAM NEXT WAVE, L.A Opera, San Francisco Opera), and ETERNAL, a video  installation. His work has been seen at theaters and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe including, The Walker Arts Center, PuSH, Teatro Nacional D. Maria, Lisbon/Estoril Film Festival, Vooruit, Festival TransAmériques, Noorderzon Festival, The Chocolate Factory, The Public Theater’s Under The Radar, Opera Philadelphia/Curtis Opera Theater, American Repertory Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College, Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Signature Theater, The Shakespeare Theater Company, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Braunschweig, and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Residencies and commissions include The MacDowell Colony, Baryshnikov Arts Center,  Mass MOCA, The Chocolate Factory, The Bushwick Starr, LMCC/ Governor’s Island.  

  He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies and has taught at The Juilliard School, Bard College, Princeton University, and The Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

  He is the recipient of the 2017 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for the Theater.

   

• Margot Fenley

  Margot Fenley (trained: VCA Acting) works as an actor, academic and acting teacher. Theatre includes productions for the Victorian Arts Centre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Windmill Performing Arts, Darlinghurst Theatre, The Stables, HotHouse, forty-five downstairs, Theatreworks, Napier Street and La Mama, amongst others. She has performed in guest roles on tv series and commercials and directed within the education and the independent sectors. Margot has been teaching for more than 25 years, including twelve years as Head of Music Theatre at the VCA (2007-20019), where she designed, created and led the Foundation, BFA, and Honours programs. These days she combines her continuing role as Senior Lecturer (Acting) within the Music Theatre department with other creative projects. Margot has also taught for MTC, Bell Shakespeare, Playbox (Malthouse), NIDA, Federation University, the National Theatre Drama School, St Martins, and within schools. She is currently completing an MFA (Theatre), exploring the use of Michael Chekhov technique for improvising, devising and writing solo performance. She’s been a proud Equity member since 1991. 

   

   

Please note there is no recording available for this session.

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