Harvest Rain Theatre Company
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Brisbane Australia |
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| Years active | 1985 - present |
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Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia, known for presenting professional musical theatre.
Since its inception in 1985, Harvest Rain has produced theatre productions at a range of venues throughout Brisbane. From 1985 to 2008 the company operated out of the Sydney Street Theatre in New Farm. Now, Harvest Rain presents most of its major productions at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank, while the base of the company's operations and training facility is the Hayward Street Studios in Stafford on Brisbane's northside.
Harvest Rain's CEO and Artistic Director is Tim O'Connor.
Harvest Rain produced Oklahoma! in 2013 as its first fully professional production.
In 2014, the company's first fully professional season included productions of Guys and Dolls starring Ian Stenlake and Daryl Somers, Spamalot starring Jon English, Simon Gallaher, Frank Woodley and Julie Anthony, and an arena production of Cats starring Marina Prior and featuring over 500 performers on stage, making it the largest production of Cats ever staged in the southern hemisphere.Spamalot won Harvest Rain the Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret in 2014 for Spamalot.
In 2015, the company produced The Pirates of Penzance to celebrate QPAC's 30th birthday. The show starred Andrew O'Keefe, John Wood and Nancye Hayes and featured Billy Bourchier as Frederic and Georgina Hopson as Mabel, in their professional debut. The production was directed by Simon Gallaher.
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