Ralph Myers

For the American football player, see Ralph Myers (American football).

Ralph Myers is an Australian theatre designer and director, and the former artistic director of Sydney's Belvoir.

In 2005 and 2006 Myers was the resident designer at the Sydney Theatre Company; he was later an associate artist at Belvoir. His appointment as artistic director at Belvoir was announced in 2009[1] and he replaced outgoing Artistic Director Neil Armfield at the beginning of 2011. Myers announced his intention to step down in June 2014,[2] and departed at the end of 2015.

Credits

He has directed Frankenstein for Sydney Theatre Company, and Private Lives and Peter Pan for Belvoir.[3][4]

His design credits include

Griffin Theatre Company

  • Tango

Rock'n Roll Circus

  • Inferno

Rock 'n Roll Circus

  • Borderlines

Griffin Theatre Company/Riverina Theatre Company/Stable Theatre/Playhouse Wagga Wagga

Sydney Theatre Company

Siren Theatre Company

  • The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union

Belvoir

  • Knives in Hens

B Sharp

  • The Soldier's Tale

Australian Chamber Orchestra/Bell Shakespeare

  • Endgame

Sydney Theatre Company/Sydney Festival

  • Frozen

Melbourne Theatre Company

  • Wonderlands

HotHouse Theatre/Stables Theatre

  • Conversations with the Dead[5]

Belvoir

  • The Fever

Belvoir

  • Morph

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Frozen

Melbourne Theatre Company production for Sydney Theatre Company

  • Eora Crossing

Legs on the Wall/Sydney Festival

  • Dinner

Melbourne Theatre Company

  • The Spook

Belvoir

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Cruel and Tender

Melbourne Theatre Company

  • The Little Piggy

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Ray's Tempest[6]

Belvoir

  • Boy Gets Girl

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Dissident, Goes Without Saying

Blueprints for Sydney Theatre Company

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Lost Echo Parts I and II

Sydney Theatre Company

  • A Kind of Alaska/Reunion

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Parramatta Girls[7]

Belvoir

  • Enlightenment

Melbourne Theatre Company

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Othello

Bell Shakespeare

  • Toy Symphony[8]

Belvoir

  • Blackbird

Sydney Theatre Company

New Zealand Opera

  • Two Faced Bastard

Chunky Move

  • A Street Car Named Desire

Sydney Theatre Company

  • The City

Sydney Theatre Company

  • Cosi Fan Tutte

Opera Australia

  • Peter Grimes

Opera Australia

  • Measure for Measure[9]

Belvoir

Belvoir

Belvoir

  • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll[12]

Belvoir

  • Caligula

English National Opera

Belvoir

Belvoir

Belvoir

  • Is This Thing On?[16]

Belvoir

References

  1. ^ Belvoir's new boss has designs upon the company, by Bryce Hallett. (The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2009)
  2. ^ Ralph Myers on bidding farewell to Belvoir St Theatre, by Andrew Taylor. (The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2014)
  3. ^ "Peter Pan Belvoir Sydney 2013".
  4. ^ "Private Lives Belvoir Sydney 2012".
  5. ^ "Conversations with the Dead Belvoir Sydney 2003".
  6. ^ "Ray's Tempest Belvoir Sydney 2005".
  7. ^ "Parramatta Girls Belvoir Sydney 2007".
  8. ^ "Toy Symphony Belvoir Sydney 2007".
  9. ^ "Measure for Measure Belvoir Sydney 2010".
  10. ^ "The Wild Duck Belvoir Sydney 2011".
  11. ^ "The Seagull Belvoir Sydney 2011".
  12. ^ "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Belvoir Sydney 2011".
  13. ^ "Death of a Salesman Belvoir Sydney 2012".
  14. ^ "Hamlet Belvoir Sydney 2013".
  15. ^ "The Government Inspector Belvoir Sydney 2014".
  16. ^ "Is This Thing On? Belvoir Sydney 2014".