Moira Blumenthal

(19*) Australian producer and director, with close connections to South African theatre. *? Moira has directed and produced mainstream theatre internationally since 1988. Director of Moira Blumenthal Productions, became the Seymour Centre's Programming Manager (200???); Executive director of BITE - or Best Independent Theatre – which she founded with Colin Rose at the Seymour (2008?). Her South African productions include William Finn’s March of the Falsettos (with NAPAC, at the Adcock-Ingram Theatre, 1989), Joshua Sobol's Ghetto (with PACT in 1991), David Mamet's Oleanna (1993). She established and ran The Rosebank Little Theatre in Johannesburg (1992 - 1994). As a result of her association with the Sydney Theatre Company, Morris Gleitzman's Two Weeks With the Queen was produced as the first theatre exchange between Australia and South Africa in 1995 and she then directed Timothy Daly's Livingstone in Florida, USA, and presented Michael Gow's Sweet Phoebe and Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances in South Africa ('96). In Sydney she produced Irene Stephanou's Meza, Mira and Make-Up and Joanna Weinberg's Bellydancing. She co-produced and directed Gary Henderson's Skin Tight (1999) and Collected Stories by Donald Margulies (2000/1) for tours of South Africa, as well as Joanna Weinberg's The Lightness of Feeling in Sydney (2001). In 2002 she co-produced Pieter-Dirk Uys's Foreign Aids at the Sydney Opera House and the world premier of Craig Freidmond's The King of Laughter for the 2003 Carnivale Festival. In 2004 she directed Mum's the Word for Pieter Toerien Productions. In 2005 she co-produced Pieter-Dirk Uys's Elections and Erections in Sydney and Brisbane. In 2005 she directed From Door to Door for Pieter Toerien Productions. In 2006 Moira directed the Naledi award-winning Bombshells starring Kate Normington. This was followed by the hit It’s a Dad Thing in 2007.