Kip Williams

Kip Williams is the Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company. At STC he has directed Playing Beatie Bow, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord of the Flies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Cheery Soul, Harp in the South Parts One & Two, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, The Golden Age, Love and Information (a co-production with Malthouse Theatre), Suddenly Last Summer, Children of the Sun, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Under Milk Wood. He was Associate Director on Cyrano de Bergerac with Andrew Upton.

For Melbourne Theatre Company Kip adapted and directed August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. For Sydney Chamber Opera he directed The Rape of Lucretia (a co-production with Dark Mofo and the Victorian Opera), Index of Metals, The Lighthouse, and the double bill Ich Habe Genug, and Nunc Dimittis. For the 18th Biennale of Sydney, he directed Through The Gates (also for Sydney Chamber Opera). For Malthouse Helium and US-A-UM, he directed an all-female production of Lord of the Flies and for Tamarama Rock Surfers he directed Fallout at the Old Fitz. For the Sydney Writers’ Festival Kip directed 1001 Nights and for Princeton Theatre, New Jersey, Fifth of July.