Eugene Gilfedder

He has worked extensively with all major theatre companies in Qld. including the Qld Theatre Co, La Boite, TN!, Grin and Tonic, Performing Arts Trust, 4MBS Classic FM, The Queensland Orchestra and many more. Interstate, he has worked with Melbourne Theatre Co, Sydney Theatre Co, Bell Shakespeare, Performing Lines, Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival, Marion St Theatre, South Australia Theatre Co. and others. 

He was co-director for Fractal Theatre from 1989-2000, who produced more than twenty radical theatre events on an independent basis.

He is six times a recipient of the Matilda Award for excellence in Qld theatre and in 2000 gained the Melbourne Green Room Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Beautiful Life.

Most recently he performed in Othello for Queensland Theatre and played the role of Scrooge for the fourth time in Shake and Stir’s A Christmas Carol. He also directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth for the 4MBS Shakespeare Festival in 2020 and 2021.

His film credits include Medivac Series I and II (Liberty and Beyond, Channel 10) 1996-97; Day of The Roses (98), Through My Eyes ( 99), In Her Skin (2009)

His writing for the stage includes Theo, An illumination of the Life of Van Gogh (1994), The Gothic Banquet and The Yellow Wallpaper (adaptations of Huysman and Gilbert-Perkins), Scathac and Aife, The Tain Bo Culagne, Taliessin and The Madness of Sweeney (Celtic Myths adapted for stage), Akhenaten (2003, a five act play in verse), Beethoven's Letters (2002), Mahler: A Matter of Life and Death (2010),), The Odyssey (2004 a re-telling in verse), 6 Plays for children aged 5-17 (from 2001), The Fiveways (2008, a one act opera, written, directed and composed) and Seneca (2006 now called Empire Burning) Aiden in Egypt (2010) is his first novel.