Creatives

Damien is Founder and Artistic Director of Sport for Jove Theatre, now in its 17th year. He has directed over 60 productions in that period for hundreds of thousands of Australians and reached students across NSW and Queensland annually with the company’s comprehensive Education Program. His most recent credits include adapting/directing The Player Kings: Shakespeare’s History Cycle (Seymour Centre) and writing/directing the acclaimed original work Venus and Adonis for stage and feature film.

As actor, director and writer he has worked extensively across Australia’s major companies. He spent 15 years with Bell Shakespeare as actor, director and writer of education materials and seminars. As director and actor he has also worked with STC, MTC, Belvoir, Queensland Theatre, Sydney Festival, Ensemble Theatre, Black Swan, CTC, Brisbane Festival, Hothouse Theatre, Haydn Ensemble and Bach in the Dark, while maintaining a passionate commitment to the Independent sector in Sydney over a 30 year period. He is a proud member of MEAA.

Damien has been awarded for Henry V (Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Mainstage Production, Best Director, and Greenroom Award for Best Mainstage Production, nominated for Best Director), Antigone (Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production and Best Director), Cyrano de Bergerac (Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Production and Best Director), All’s Well That Ends Well (Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production), The Libertine (Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production, Timeout Award for Best Production and Best Director), and Othello (Sydney Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for Iago), along with many other nominations; Glug Awards for Best Production/Director for The Father (STC), No End of Blame (SFJ) and Look Back in Anger (with Lizzie Schebesta, Old Fitz). He has written extensive education programs and has two award-winning plays published with Currency Press, and his newest play Prometheus has been published by the NSW Board of Education for the 2026 syllabus.

Damien is currently writing several works – a new adaptation of The Three Musketeers from Dumas’ novel, an Australian work based on Kate Lyon’s novel The Water Underneath, and several original plays including Napoleon’s Garden and in early development, plays about Van Gogh, Caravaggio, a work set in a remote NSW town called Concussion, and a story drawn from the tale of Australia’s first bank robbery, called Suddenly.