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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.
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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.