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The gorgeous Lucinda Gleeson joins Regina to talk about the show The Arrogance on at KXT Broadway.
Lucinda Gleeson is an actor, director, producer, sometimes lighting designer and most recently the newly appointed Artistic Director of Playback Theatre Sydney.
As a director, Lucinda cut her teeth at Tamarama Rock Surfers (TRS), the theatre company that started The Old Fitzroy Theatre. Here she directed the trilogy of Benito di Fonzo plays, the first of which was 'The Chronic
Ills of Robert Zimmerman, AKA Bob Dylan, (A Lie) A Theatrical Talking Blues and
Glissendorf.'
This started as a Late Session at The Old Fitz, then the main stage the following season,
before touring with Critical Stages throughout NSW.
The second production was 'Lenny Bruce: 13 Daze Undug In Sydney 1962' at The Bondi
Pavilion produced by TRS and then the third collaboration was, 'A Riff on Keef: The
Human Myth' for Griffin Independent
Other directing credits include:
'Crushed' by Melita Rowston at The New Theatre Independent for Chester Productions.
'Golden Delicious' by Mary Rachel Brown for Bondi Feast
Lucinda is a graduate of the Ensemble Studios.
She is a proud member of MEAA.
Lucinda Gleeson is an actor, director, producer, sometimes lighting designer and most recently the newly appointed Artistic Director of Playback Theatre Sydney.
As a director, Lucinda cut her teeth at Tamarama Rock Surfers (TRS), the theatre company that started The Old Fitzroy Theatre. Here she directed the trilogy of Benito di Fonzo plays, the first of which was 'The Chronic
Ills of Robert Zimmerman, AKA Bob Dylan, (A Lie) A Theatrical Talking Blues and
Glissendorf.'
This started as a Late Session at The Old Fitz, then the main stage the following season,
before touring with Critical Stages throughout NSW.
The second production was 'Lenny Bruce: 13 Daze Undug In Sydney 1962' at The Bondi
Pavilion produced by TRS and then the third collaboration was, 'A Riff on Keef: The
Human Myth' for Griffin Independent
Other directing credits include:
'Crushed' by Melita Rowston at The New Theatre Independent for Chester Productions.
'Golden Delicious' by Mary Rachel Brown for Bondi Feast
Lucinda is a graduate of the Ensemble Studios.
She is a proud member of MEAA.
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