Some past performances
Tama is a British-Australian writer, director, and actor, whose work has been produced in England, Australian, Europe, and America. He has a passion for combining music and the spoken word, which has led him to develop a new form of theatre, the Music-Play, which mixes a full theatrical play with a complete musical concert.
Tama has worked with theatre companies, orchestras, and opera companies all over the world (including Covent Garden, Opera Australia, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Philharmonic, The King’s Head Theatre, the Queensland Theatre Company, The Naples Philarmonic (Florida), the OSO Theatre, The Sydney Opera House, Oper Graz, and the Salesjan’s Theatre in Malta).
Tama is currently Artistic Director of the Brisbane Shakespeare Festival in Australia, and was recently Artist-in-Residence at the OSO Theatre in London.
As an actor, Tama has performed in both theatre and TV in England and Australia – including Easterders, Heartbeat, and Ellis.
On stage, he has performed such roles as Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, Oberon, Don Pedro, Banquo, Antonio, and Ariel (in the Shakespearean canon) ; Bunthorne (Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience), Felix (The Odd Couple), Leo (Noel Coward’s Design for Living), and Michal in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman.
He has appeared in TV shows from Eastenders and Heartbeat, to The Story of Paul Hogan, and the crime drama, Ellis for Channel 5.
Tama has written and produced 13 of his own plays, including dramas about Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Britten, Prokofiev, Lord Byron, Nancy Wake, Andrsej Panufnik, Prokofiev, and Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, along with his own adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Peer Gynt. His I Shall Hear in Heaven (about Beethoven) and Bright Stars Shone for Us (about Tchaikovsky) were nominated and shortlisted, respectively, for RPS awards in London.
Tama has also won several acting and directing awards in Australia, and been nominated and shortlisted for the RPS Awards in London.
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven - 2026 (Opera Holland Park)
Passions - the life of JS Bach - 2025 (OSO Theatre)
Midsummer Night's Dream (Artis Naples, Florida) 2024
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower - (Winbledon Festival) 2024
Peer Gynt (his own adaptation) (Royal Philarmonic Orchestra) - 2024
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron (OSO Theatre & Barnes Festival) - 2024
The White Mouse - the WWII spy Nancy Wake (OSO Theatre) - 2024
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower (Cambridge Russian Society) - 2024
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven (Australia & London Mozart Players Festival) 2024
A Christmas Carol - (Royal Albert Hall) 2023
Passions - the life of JS Bach - (Salesjan's Theatre, Malta) 2023
Richard III - (Verulamium, with Kernow PLayers) 2023
Midsummer Night's Dream - (Royal Philarmonic Orchestra) - 2022
Beethoven - I Shall hear in Heaven - (Wimbledon Festival) 2022
Richard III - (Kernow Players, Trebah Amphitheatre) 2022
Cox and Box - (Salesjan's Theatre, Malta) 2022
Passions - the life of JS Bach - (Salesjan's Theatre, Malta) 2022
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - (OSO Theatre) 2022
Master of the Human Heart - (Salesjan's Theatre, Malta) 2021
Falling in Love Again - (King's Head Theatre) 2020
A Christmas Carol - (Royal Albert Hall) 2019
Bright Stars Shone for Us - (Wimbledon Festival) 2019
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - (London Mozart Players) 2019
Hamlet - (Brisbane Shakespeare Festival) 2019
Don Juan - (Barnes Festival) 2019
Memoirs of a Sailor - (JACC Theatre, Kuwait) 2019
Amahl and the Night Visitors - (Teatru Manoel, Malta) 2018
Metamorphosis - (Opera Australia) 2018
Rosenkavalier - (Melbourne Opera) 2018
The White Mouse - (Camerata, Brisbane) 2017
Don Giovanni - 2017 (Sydney Opera Project)
The Ring Cycle (Assistant Director, Opera Australia) - 2017
Patience - (Salesjan's Theatre, Malta) 2017
A Dickensian Christmas - (Andrew McKinnon Persents) 2016
La Traviata - (Sydney Opera Projects) 2016
Bright Stars shone for Us - (Camerata, Brisbane) 2015
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2015
La Traviata - (Opera Australia) 2015
Richard III - (Brisbane Shakespeare Fstival) 2014
Panufnik: His Quest for Peace - (Townsville International Festival) 2014
Passions : the life of JS Bach - (Camerata, Brisbane) 2014
La Forza Del Destino - (Opera Australia) 2013
Partenope - (Opera Australia) 2013
Ben – the Life of Benjamin Britten - (Camrata, Brisbane) 2013
Falstaff - (Oper Graz, Austria) 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - (Qld Symphony Orchestra & 4MBS) 2012
Henry V - (Brisbane Shakespeare Festival) 2012
The Love of the Nightingale - (Opera Australia) 2011
A Midsummer Nights’ Dream - (Brisbane Shakespeare Festival) 2011
Amadeus - (4MBS Players) 2011
A Christmas Carol - 2010
Peter Grimes - (Opera Australia) 2010
Amadeus - (4MBS Players) 2009
Tosca - (4MBS Festival) 2008
Much Ado About Nothing - (Brisbane Shakespeare Festival) 2008
The Tempest - (Qld Performing Arts & 4MBS) 2007
Amadeus - (4MBS Festival) 2007
Orpheus in the Underworld - (Qld Conservatorium) 2007