Neil Armfield
Film director
1955 –
Who is Neil Armfield?
Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.
Born in Sydney, Armfield was the youngest of three boys. The son of a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's Biscuits factory, he was brought up in the suburb of Concord adjacent to Exile Bay. He was educated at the selective publicly funded Homebush Boys High School and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1977, and became Co-Artistic Director of the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. He joined South Australia's Lighthouse Theatre before returning to Sydney in 1985, where he was involved in the purchase of Belvoir St Theatre and the formation of Company B, becoming its first Artistic Director in 1994.
In April 2008 he was selected as a participant in the Towards a creative Australia strand of the Australia 2020 Summit. Armfield announced in 2009 that the 2010 season would be his last as Belvoir Artistic Director, but he has subsequently directed under the new Artistic Director Ralph Myers.
His homosexuality has informed much of his work.
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- Born
- Apr 22, 1955
Sydney - Also known as
- Neil Geoffrey Armfield
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Sydney
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on July 23, 2013
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