David Berthold

David Berthold is a leading Australian theatre director. He has directed for most of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as internationally. He is currently the Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals. He is due to direct four festivals, in September of each year 2015-18.

He was previously Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of La Boite Theatre Company (2008–14), Griffin Theatre Company (Australia's leading new writing theatre company, 2003–06) and Australian Theatre for Young People (Australia's flagship theatre for young people, 1999–2003). He was also Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company (Australia's largest theatre company, 1994–99), and Artistic Associate of the Queensland Theatre Company, 1991–94. He has also directed productions for Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, Black Swan, Belvoir, the Sydney Opera House, NIDA, Queensland University of Technology, Opera Queensland, Auckland Theatre Company, the Royal National Theatre (London), Theater an der Parkaue (Berlin), and in London's West End. He was the Festival Director of World Interplay 2007, the world's largest festival of young playwrights. In 2013 and 2014, he curated a stream of independent theatre for the Brisbane Festival.

Arts Hub claimed in 2006 that Berthold "turned Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company into one of the country's most visible arts companies."

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