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 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 direcing awards in Australia.
Passions - the life of JS Bach - 2025
Midsummer Night's Dream with Naples Philarmonic Orchestra in Florida - 2024
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven - 2024
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower - 2024
Narration of Peer Gynt with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra - 2024
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2024
The White Mouse - the WWII spy Nancy Wake - 2024
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower - 2024
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven - 2024
A Christmas Carol - 2023
Passions - the life of JS Bach - 2023
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower - 2023
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven - 2023
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2023
Richard III - 2023
Midsummer Night's Dream with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra - 2022
Beethoven - I Shall hear in Heaven - 2022
Richard III - 2022
Cox and Box - 2022
Passions - the life of JS Bach - 2022
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2022
Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven - 2021
Master of the Human Heart - 2021
Falling in Love Again - 2020
A Christmas Carol - 2019
Bright Stars Shone for Us - 2019
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2019
Hamlet - 2019
Don Juan - 2019
Memoirs of a Sailor - 2019
Amahl and the Night Visitors - 2018
Metamorphosis - 2018
Rosenkavalier - 2018
The White Mouse - 2017
Don Giovanni - 2017
The Ring Cycle (Assistant Director) - 2017
Patience - 2017
A Dickensian Christmas - 2016
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2016
La Traviata - 2016
Bright Stars shone for Us - 2015
Don Juan, the Brillliant Irreverence of Lord Byron - 2015
La Traviata - 2015
Richard III - 2014
Panufnik: His Quest for Peace - 2014
Passions : the life of JS Bach - 2014
La Forza Del Destino - 2013
Partenope - 2013
Ben – the Life of Benjamin Britten - 2013
Falstaff - 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2012
Henry V - 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2012
The Love of the Nightingale - 2011
A Midsummer Nights’ Dream - 2011
Amadeus - 2011
Partenope - 2011
A Christmas Carol - 2010
Peter Grimes - 2010
Amadeus - 2009
Tosca - 2008
Amadeus - 2008
Much Ado About Nothing - 2008
The Tempest - 2007
Amadeus - 2007
Orpheus in the Underworld - 2007
A Christmas Carol - 2007
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2007
Don Giovanni - 2006
Amadeus - 2006
A Christmas Carol - 2004
Antigone - 2002