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David Berthold is an Australian theatre and festival director, who has also been artistic director of several major Australian arts organisations.
He spent some years training as an opera singer, and won the Joan Sutherland Scholarship at the Sydney Opera House..
He has been director of several theatre companies in Australia. He was associate director of Sydney Theatre Company from 1994 to 1999, before being appointed artistic director and CEO of Australian Theatre for Young People in 1999. He then took up the post of artistic director and CEO of Griffin Theatre Company from 2003 until 2006.
Between 2008 and 2019, Berthold led major arts organisations in Brisbane. He was artistic director and CEO of La Boite Theatre Company from 2008 until 2014.
He was then appointed as artistic director of the Brisbane Festival, serving in that role from 2015 until 2019. He transformed the festival into Australia's largest major international arts festival, presenting more works to more people than any other.
Since January 2020, Berthold has been artistic director-in-residence at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
In 2010, Berthold won a Matilda Awards for his "repositioning of La Boite Theatre Company and his direction of Hamlet". Queensland Government Ministerial Media Statement: Matilda Awards for Brisbane's top theatre Queensland Government, Finance and Arts, The Honourable Rachel Nolan Media (8 March 2011)
Other activities
He was on the judging panels of Time Out's 2021 Future Shapers Awards, Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting in 2020/21, and the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2023.
Berthold was a member of the NSW Government's Theatre and Musical Theatre Arts Advisory Board.
he is on the boards of Hothouse Theatre and Australian Plays Transform. He is also a trustee of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award.
Recognition and awards
In 2010, Berthold was nominated for a BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Direction of a Play, for his London West End production Holding the Man.
Productions
From 1984 until the present (2024), Berthold has assumed the role of actor, adaptor, artistic director, assistant director, director, and co-director on numerous productions, notably with the Sydney, Griffin, La Boite, and Queensland Theatre companies as well as the Australian Theatre for Young People.
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