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THE ADELAIDE SINGING ACTOR WORKSHOP With MATTHEW ROBINSON THE ADELAIDE SINGING ACTOR WORKSHOP Join Matthew Robinson, composer/lyricist of Metro Street (State Theatre Company of South Australia) and Sing On Through Tomorrow (Neil Gooding Productions) and star of Opera Australia’s My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music and The Pirates of Penzance in a two-day musical theatre intensive. Masterclass your own choice songs, workshop scenes and a song from Metro Street and preview brand new material from Matthew’s upcoming second musical. Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, January 24th and 25th, 2012. Time: 10am-5pm. Venue: To be announced. Cost: $180. Limited availability: 15 places only. Registrations close January 7th, 2012. Payment due January 14th, 2012. WORKSHOP CALENDAR Tuesday, January 24th (morning): Singing actor masterclass (own choice musical theatre songs). Tuesday, January 24th (afternoon): Workshop musical number from Metro Street. Wednesday, January 25th (morning): Workshop Metro Street scenes. Wednesday, January 25th (afternoon): Learn new material from Matthew's latest musical, recently developed in New York City under the mentorship of Stephen Schwartz. RESERVE YOUR PLACE IN THE WORKSHOP - 15 PLACES ONLY NAME: EMAIL: PHONE: DATE OF BIRTH: Email this document to [email protected] PAYMENT via INTERNET BANK TRANSFER DUE JANUARY 14th: BANK: CBA BSB: 063 162 AC: 1046 0831 *PLACE YOUR NAME IN THE TRANSACTION DETAILS AREA. MATTHEW ROBINSON Matthew Robinson is an actor and multi award-winning book-writer, composer and lyricist who writes for musical theatre, television and large-scale corporate events. Having won a 2011 Churchill Fellowship and the 2011 UTAS Stephen Schwartz Songwriting Award, Matthew has recently returned from New York City where his second musical received two readings at Playwrights Horizons under the mentorship of multi Grammy and Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Matthew was commissioned by the State Theatre Company of South Australia to write his second musical following STCSA’s critically acclaimed season of Matthew’s first musical Metro Street. Metro Street went on to be chosen as the opening musical at the 2009 Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea and from its Australian and Asian premieres was nominated for five Helpmann Awards, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, three South Korean DIMF Awards and won the South Australian Adelaide Theatre Guide Award for Best Musical. Metro Street also earned Matthew the honour of being the youngest ever recipient of Australia’s richest theatre-writing award, the Pratt Prize for Music Theatre. Matthew also recently appeared in the World Premiere season of his new musical revue Sing On Through Tomorrow, produced by Neil Gooding Productions. The Original Cast Recording of Sing On Through Tomorrow is now available on iTunes and CD. Matthew has also written songs for ABC TV’s Dance Academy, Immaculate Confection (Adelaide Cabaret Festival) and The Windows Project (Australian Theatre for Young People). Matthew’s corporate event clients include Coca-Cola Amatil, Nintendo, Bosch, Nokia Siemens Networks, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Peoplebank and the Australian Open (tennis). As an actor, Matthew has appeared as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady all for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House. He also played the title role of Pippin in the inaugural season of Peter Cousens’ Kookaburra. Matthew has appeared on Australian television in the crime dramas Stingers and Blue Heelers, the Fox 8 reality series The Singing Office, Mary Tyler Moore’s telemovie A Most Deadly Family (Village Roadshow) and the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks teleseries The Pacific.