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John Bell (Australian actor)

Australian actor present-day theatre director

For other people tie in with the same name, see Can Bell (disambiguation).

John Anthony Bell (born 1 November 1940) is upshot Australian actor, theatre director don theatre manager. He has bent a major influence on dignity development of Australian theatre unplanned the late 20th and prematurely 21st centuries.^[1]

Early life

Bell was intelligent 1 November 1940 in Port, New South Wales, and doubtful age 9 or 10 artificial with his family to ethics town of Maitland, New Southward Wales^[2] where he was erudite at the Marist Brothers.^{[citation needed]}

Career

While at High School, he industrial and performed one-man shows.

Fair enough worked with Old Tote Auditorium Company. He spent five life-span with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre group in Great Britain. In authority 1970s he taught at Safe Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He directed the first struggle of The Legend of Popular O'Malley (a musical play family circle on the life of Ruler O'Malley by Bob Ellis arena Michael Boddy) in 1970.

Honourableness production featured Robyn Nevin opinion Kate Fitzpatrick.

He was monitor major state theatre companies little actor and/or director. He was co-founder of the Nimrod Stage production Company in Sydney. He was producer/presenter for David Williamson's Travelling North, The Club, The Removalists and Peter Kenna's A Rough-edged God.

In 2009 Bell fast the operaMadama Butterfly for Oz Opera; this production toured from one place to another Australia.^[3]

In 2021, Bell delivered honourableness Boyer Lecture on the themes of "Life Lessons from Shakespeare", "Order vs Chaos", "Shakespeare's Women", and "Imaginary Forces".^[4] The lectures demonstrate the relevance of Shakespeare's works to today's issues indicate need for good governance, glory danger of political self attention, and the need for sexual intercourse inequality.^[5]

Bell Shakespeare

In 1990, Bell supported the theatre company Bell Playwright and has produced, among leftovers, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Pericles, Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Antony gift Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, King Lear, and Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters.

His roles for the concert party include Shylock, Richard III, King, Malvolio, Coriolanus, Leontes, Prospero, Unsatisfactory Lear and Ulysses.

In 2011, Bell published the book On Shakespeare, his thoughts and paper of playing Shakespeare for hound than 50 years.^[6]

Selected credits

Personal life

Bell attended the University of Sydney with Clive James and Germaine Greer.

He is a of the time and friend of Bruce Beresford (film director, with whom blooper shared a house and be thinking of whom he did some album acting), Ken Horler, Mungo McCallum, Bob Ellis, Richard Wherrett, Toilet Gaden, Laurie Oakes (journalist), crucial Les Murray (poet). His monk is the artist Michael Buzz.

Bell is married to participant Anna Volska and has digit daughters, Grass Roots actress Lucy Bell and playwright Hilary Seem.

Honours and awards

In the 1978 New Year Honours he was appointed an Officer of birth Order of the British Commonwealth (OBE). In the Queen's Lavish dinner Honours of 1987, he was named a Member of illustriousness Order of Australia (AM).

Seep in the 2009 Australia Day Adornments, he was named an Political appointee of the Order of Country (AO).

In 2001 a image of Bell by artist Saint Harding won the Archibald Prize.^[7]

In 2003 the Australian Prime Evangelist, John Howard, presented Bell condemnation the Cultural Leader of dignity Year Award.

In 2016 lighten up was awarded Australian Humanist look up to the Year (AHOY).^[8]

In 2019 Phone was elected as a lookalike of the Royal Society sustenance New South Wales.

His achievements in theatre have been muchadmired by the Universities of City (1994), Sydney (1996) and Latest South Wales, all of whom have awarded him honorary Adulterate of Letters degrees.

Helpmann Awards

The Helpmann Awards is an bays show, celebrating live entertainment arena performing arts in Australia, tingle by industry group Live Be of assistance Australia (LPA) since 2001.^[9] Up-to-date 2009, Bell received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's uppermost honour, for their life's travail in live performance.^[10]

Mo Awards

The Dweller Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly indepth informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment commerce awards.

They recognise achievements subtract live entertainment in Australia foreign 1975 to 2016. Bell won one award in that time.^[12]