Eugene Gilfedder
Eugene makes his MTC debut in Death and the Maiden. Since 1981, he has accrued more than 150 theatre production credits as actor, director, writer, music director, sound artist, and composer. He is a five-time recipient of the Matilda Award for Excellence in Queensland Theatre and in 2000 gained the Melbourne Green Room Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Beautiful Life (La Boîte). For Queensland Theatre Company, his most recent credits include The Effect (also STC), Macbeth, Elizabeth – Almost by Chance a Woman, Sacré Bleu!, Fractions, Grimm Tales, Waiting for Godot, That Face, Rabbit Hole, and The Tempest. Among his La Boîte Theatre appearances are Holding the Man, The Chairs, Cosi, Hamlet, Kafka Dances, Speaking in Tongues, Road, and Amigos. He toured nationally with Bell Shakespeare Company’s The Comedy of Errors, Critical Stages production of The Kursk and Opera Queensland’s The Mikado, playing Ko-Ko. As co-founder of Fractal Theatre, he directed and performed in more than twenty productions, including Dracula, Coriolanus, the Oresteia, Metamorphosis, Peer Gynt, Decadence, The Fall of the House of Usher, Richard III, and White Marriage. Among many other works, Eugene adapted The Odyssey (Zen Zen Zo/QPAC), wrote and composed the one-act opera The Fiveways (Brisbane Festival), wrote and performed Empire Burning (Metro Arts, 2011) and, most recently, Portrait of a Nation, his solo piece at La Mama (2015). Among his film and TV credits are The Doctor Blake Mysteries, In Her Skin, Pop-Up, The Curse of the Gothic Symphony, Sea Patrol, The Day of the Roses, and Medivac.
