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Simon Stone (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor.
In 2009 he directed Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise for Belvoir. In 2010 he directed and co-wrote with Mark Leonard Winter, Thomas Henning and Chris Ryan a version of Seneca's Thyestes for The Hayloft Project and Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. He directed The Cherry Orchard for Melbourne Theatre Company in 2013.
In 2011 Stone became the resident director at Belvoir. In his first year he wrote and directed The Wild Duck, after Henrik Ibsen, which has become his calling card production and has played internationally, including at the Holland Festival. In 2011 he also directed Robyn Nevin in Lally Katz's Neighbourhood Watch for Belvoir and adapted and directed Bertolt Brecht's Baal for the Sydney Theatre Company.
For Theater Basel, where he was a house director from 2015, he has directed Angels in America, John Gabriel Borkman (for which he won the 2015 Nestroy Theatre Prize), Three Sisters, and Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt. A companion project with the works of August Strindberg, Hotel Strindberg, premiered at Theater Basel in 2018.
For Ivo van Hove's company Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, he has directed Euripides' Medea in his own new adaptation, Husbands and Wives, Ibsen House, a new play by Stone which threads together the plots of several of Ibsen's plays in a new modern scenario, and Flight 49, inspired by the novel Op Hoop van Zegen by Herman Heijermans.
In 2016, Stone premiered an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's Yerma at the Young Vic in London. The production starred Billie Piper in the title role, and was well reviewed, returning for a second run in 2017 before transferring to the Park Avenue Armory in New York in 2018. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in 2017.
Stone directed Luigi Cherubini's opera Médée at the 2019 Salzburg Festival, " Médée, Salzburg Festival 2019 returning there in 2023 for Martinů's The Greek Passion sung in English.Allison, John. Report from Salzburg. Opera, October 2023, Vol.74, No.10, p1192-4. He took his production of Euripides' Medea, with Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2020. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2022 with Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, set in present-day America's Rust Belt. "Fading Dreams", interview by Matt Dobkin, Metropolitan Opera
In 2023, he idealized the direction of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele for the opening night of the new season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
His updated adaptation of Phaedra was produced at the National Theatre February to April 2023; the company included Mackenzie Davis, Assaad Bouab and Janet McTeer.
Stone has acted in the television series John Safran's Music Jamboree, MDA, Blue Heelers, Rush, City Homicide, and the films Jindabyne, Kokoda, Balibo, Blame, and The Eye of the Storm.
He directed the British drama film The Dig in 2021. It focuses on an archaeology dig in Sutton Hoo in 1939.
Stone believes in theatre as a place for polemic: "One can't make theatre based on fear and compromises. Without argument, there is no art."
Yet, at the same time, he acknowledges that his own art has its roots in finding a language for the trauma of his father's death. "I certainly couldn't talk to people about what had happened to me. Especially at a young age, people are very confronted by 'how on earth do I even talk about that absurdly dark thing that happened to Simon?'. Of course, in cinema and literature, you find conversation partners. They're not talking back but they kind of are because they're telling you you're not the only person who's been through that thing."
| Short film |
| Short film |
| 5 episodes |
| Mary Farris / Clayton Sanders |
| 1 episode |
| 1 episode |
| TV movie |
| Direct-to-video |
| TV movie |
| TV series, season 5, episode 9: "Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor" |
| Direct-to-video |
| Melbourne Grammar School |
| Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga with HotHouse Theatre |
| University of Melbourne |
| Cinema Nova, Melbourne |
| Cinema Nova, Melbourne |
| Theatre Works |
| Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Arts House Meat Market, Melbourne with The Hayloft Project |
| The Hayloft, Melbourne |
| Sacred Heart Chapel, Melbourne with The Hayloft Project |
| Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne |
| Arts House Meat Market, Melbourne with The Hayloft Project |
| Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Wharf Theatre with STC |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with The Hayloft Project |
| BlackBox, Melbourne with The Hayloft Project |
| The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide with The Hayloft Project |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with The Hayloft Project |
| Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Tower Theatre, Melbourne, Carriageworks with The Hayloft Project |
| Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne with The Hayloft Project |
| Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Wharf Theatre with STC |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Nationaltheatret, Oslo, Halle E i MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, Barbican Centre, Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Southbank Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Geelong Arts Centre, Theatre Royal Sydney |
| Sydney Theatre with STC |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Theatre Royal Sydney |
| Southbank Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Theater Oberhausen, Germany |
| Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, France, Space Theatre, Adelaide with The Hayloft Project |
| Stadsschouwburg |
| Burgtheater, Theater Basel, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Theater Basel, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Akademietheater, Thalia-Theater, Hamburg, The State Theatre of Nations, Moscow |
| Stadsschouwburg, deSingel, Antwerpen, Belgium, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam |
| Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich |
| Theater Basel |
| Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Nationaltheatret, Oslo |
| Theater Basel, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Pushkin Drama Theatre, Moscow, Residenztheater, Munich |
| Théâtre des Célestins, Lyon, France |
| Felsenreitschule for Salzburg Festival |
| Young Vic, Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan |
| Stadsschouwburg, Cour du Lycee Saint-Joseph, Avignon, France, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, deSingel, Antwerpen, Belgium, Online – International |
| Odéon -Théâtre de l'Europe, France, Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne, France, Teatro Carignano, deSingel, Antwerpen, Belgium, Le Quai, Angers, France |
| Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin with Berliner Ensemble |
| Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Barbican Centre, Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Zorlu PSM, Theater im Pfalzbau, Germany |
| Burgtheater, Theater Basel, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin |
| Stadsschouwburg |
| Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin |
| Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe |
| Palais Garnier |
| National Theatre, Munich |
| Stadsschouwburg |
| Grand Théâtre de Provence, France |
| Residenztheater, Munich |
| Vienna State Opera |
| Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles |
| Residence Theatre |
| Lyttelton Theatre, London with Royal National Theatre |
| Royal Opera House, London |
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