Damien is Founder and Artistic Director of Sport for Jove Theatre, now in its 18th year. He has directed over 70 productions for the company in that period, for hundreds of thousands of Australians and reached students across NSW and Queensland annually with the company’s comprehensive Education Program. His most recent credits for SFJ include The Comedy of Errors (Summer Season NSW tour) adapting/directing The Player Kings: Shakespeare’s History Cycle (Seymour Centre), and writing/directing the acclaimed original work Venus and Adonis (both for stage and as a feature film), along with the upcoming world premiere of his new published work, Prometheus.
As actor, director and writer he has worked extensively across Australia’s major companies. He spent 15 years with Bell Shakespeare as actor, director and writer of education materials and seminars. As director and actor he has worked with STC where his production of An Iliad with David Wenham is about to premiere, MTC, Belvoir, Queensland Theatre, Sydney Festival, Ensemble Theatre, Black Swan, Canberra Theatre Centre, Brisbane Festival, Hothouse Theatre, Haydn Ensemble, Bach in the Dark, and Gooding and Woodward Productions while maintaining a passionate commitment to the Independent sector in Sydney over a 30 year period. He is a proud member of MEAA and has won many Sydney Theatre and Green Room awards.
