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Simon Phillips (director)
New Zealand-Australian director of theatre, musicals and opera / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon Phillips (born 1958) is a New Zealand-Australian director of theatre, musicals and opera.[1][2] He is a former Artistic Director of Melbourne Theatre Company.[3][4]
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Phillips graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1980 with a Diploma in Acting.[5] Phillips directed the original 2015 production of Tim Finn's musical Ladies in Black for the Queensland Theatre in Brisbane which then travelled to Melbourne and toured Australia in 2017.[6]