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He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre and the performing arts.

Newtown, New South Wales, Australia (Januar 2009)

English-trained director, former actor and drama teacher, resident in Australia.

Upon returning to Australia, he was urged by noted theater directors Walt Cherry and John Sumner to take up theatre directing. Sumner persuaded him to become associate director of the Melbourne Theater Company. where he directed 23 plays and received three Melbourne Theater Critics Awards before transitioning to artistic director of the South Australian Theatre Company.

Studied mime under French stage coach Jacques Lecoq.

In 1979 he was approached by British ballet dancer and teacher Peggy van Praagh to direct a revival of the 19th century comic ballet Coppélia for the Australian Ballet Company. He returned to the show's 2016 revival as an adviser.

At 20 years of age he traveled to England to be a theater actor. He ended up at a family theatrical company called Jimmy James, where he learned his craft in front of an audience each night.