Guest Director

Kim Hardwick

Recently Kim directed Wild Thing by Suzanne Hawley which originated at Flight Path Theatre then toured regional NSW. She also directed and produced Dead Skin by Laneikka Denne with her company White Box Theatre at KXT. Both productions were very well received. In 2020 she directed and produced Campion Decent’s The Campaign with her company White Box Theatre at the Seymour Centre. In 2019 she directed Starstruck the Musical produced by NIDA with Garry McQuinn. Earlier in the year she directed and produced Tanya Ronder’s Table with her company White Box Theatre at the Seymour Centre and directed Beth Steel’s Ditch at the Limelight on Oxford. In 2018 she directed Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce (Workhorse Theatre), and she produced and directed The Shifting Heart (Seymour Centre). Kim also produced and directed Blackrock (Seymour Centre) in 2017 and Hurt (Old 505), which was nominated for the 2016 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production. In 2015, she was a Resident Studio Artist for Griffin Theatre Company and directed the lauded production of The House on the Lake.

Kim’s other credits include One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Sport For Jove), I Love You Now (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), I Love You My Mother and The Shadow Box (both at The Old Fitz), Unholy Ghosts (Griffin Independent), BANG (B Sharp), Time Stands Still and Love Song (both at Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Love Bites (Seymour Centre), The Hatpin (Seymour Centre, which then played at the New York Music Theatre Festival), The Memory of Water (Darlinghurst Theatre Company & NSW regional tour), A Moment on the Lips (Darlinghurst Theatre Company, The Old Fitz and The Stables in NSW, and the Old Council Chamber in Carlton, VIC), Sprung! (National tour), and A Day in The Death of Joe Egg and Dinner with Friends (both at Darlinghurst Theatre Company).

She is a graduate of VCA and WAAPA.