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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

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