David Harmon is a twenty seven year old theatre director, currently living in Sydney, Australia.

Originally entering directing via the university revue circuit, David wrote and directed a number of productions between 2005-2007, including an original musical adaption of the Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove, which debuted in Sydney in 2006 and at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2007.

Also in 2007 he directed the Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along which played to full houses in the Seymour Centre.

David has produced, written for and been involved in a number of Melbourne Comedy Festival shows, has written and performed musical comedy for the Sydney Morning Herald and is a regular finalist at The Cranston Cup, Sydney’s improvised comedy championship.

At NIDA, David worked with actors from all three years of NIDA’s acting course as well as students from the Actor’s Centre, ACTT, the Adelaide Centre of the Arts and Brisbane’s QUT School of Drama. David worked on original and devised projects, as well as scenes written by Tennessee Williams, Stephen Sewell, Ray Lawler, John Patrick Shanley and Stella Feehily. He directed two full productions during this time; Steven Berkoff’s Harry’s Christmas and Tennessee Williams’ And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens.

In 2009, David Harmon was awarded an Australia Council Emerging Artist Residency at Opera Australia to observe and assist on new productions of Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes. He also directed The Evils of Tobacco as part of the Theatre Forward collaborative production The Sneeze.

In 2010 David will direct work for HSC Writers OnStage and World’s Funniest Island on Cockatoo Island. He will work for Opera Australia as Second Assistant Director on A Little Night Music.

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