Our Artists
EUGENE GILFEDDER
Background: Has been involved with professional theatre and music performance since 1981, having worked on some 150 productions in the role of actor, director, writer, music director, sound artist or composer. Is a five-time recipient of the Matilda Award for Excellence in Queensland Theatre and a Melbourne Green Room Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Beautiful Life. Performing credits/theatre: Sacré Bleu!, Grimm Tales, Waiting for Godot, That Face, Rabbit Hole, The Tempest, Vertigo and the Virginia, The Beaux Stratagem, Romeo and Juliet, Essington Lewis, The Cherry Orchard, The Shaugraun, Twelfth Night, Moby Dick, Seasons Greetings, The Recruiting Officer, Camille, Ghosts, Major Barbara, Henry V (Queensland Theatre Company), The Chairs, Così, Hamlet, Kafka Dances, Speaking in Tongues, Road, Amigos (La Boite Theatre Company). Was co-founder of Fractal Theatre, directing and performing in over 20 productions including Dracula, Coriolanus, The Oresteia, Metamorphosis, Peer Gynt, Decadence, The Fall of the House of Usher, Richard III, White Marriage. Ballet: Frederick Ashton in Fonteyn Remembered (Queensland Ballet). Film: The Curse of the Gothic Symphony, In Her Skin. Television: Sea Patrol, Fat Cow Motel, The Day of the Roses, Fire II, Medivac. Writing credits: An adaptation of The Odyssey (for Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and Queensland Performing Arts Trust), The Fiveways (Brisbane Festival), Empire Burning (Metro Arts), and also a theatre realisation of Beethoven’s Letters and Mahler’s A Matter of Life and Death (4MBS Festival of Classics). Upcoming engagements: Ko-Ko in The Mikado (Opera Queensland).