Shannon Rush is the Associate Artist at State Theatre Company of South Australia.
She is a professional theatre director and actor, holding a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Directing with First Class Honours from Flinders University (2016) and an Advanced Diploma in Acting from the Adelaide College of the Arts (2003). She also trained at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London 2004) with funding assistance from the Helpmann Academy.
In 2023 she directed Welcome To Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy for State Theatre Company of South Australia and assistant directed The Dictionary of Lost Words by Verity Laughton (adapted from the Pip Williams novel) for State Theatre Company of South Australia & Sydney Theatre Company. She also directed AWGIE award winning Claire Della and The Moon for Madness of Two as part of the DreamBig Children’s Festival and AWESOME Festival. She also directed Future: Present for Theatre Republic.
In 2024 she will direct the world premiere of David Williamson’s play The Puzzle, for State Theatre Company of South Australia, as well as Starweaver, for Madness of Two.
Other credits include critically acclaimed world premiere of Cathedral by Caleb Lewis for State Theatre Company of South Australia (2022), The Big Score and The Big Party, written by Julianne O’Brien and commissioned by children's cancer charity Camp Quality (2022), Wolfgang's Magical Musical Circus (Tour Director) for Circa Contemporary Circus (2021), Limit by Sophia Simmons for State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Umbrella Program (2019). Shannon worked as Associate Assistant Director on the Auckland Arts Festival tour of 1984 (GWB Entertainment, 2018) as well as the Australian tour (State Theatre Company of South Australia, 2017).
In 2016 she directed the world premiere of Duncan Graham’s play Red Ink for the Adelaide Fringe, and Rainer Werner-Fassbinder’s Pre-Paradise Sorry Now for Adelaide College of the Arts. In the same year she also worked as Assistant Director to Rosemary Myers on Rumpelstiltskin for Windmill Theatre Company and to David Mealor on The Juliet Letters for Adelaide Cabaret Festival. As part of her Honours year studies at Flinders University she worked on secondment with Gale Edwards on the world premiere of Cloudstreet for Opera SA. Shannon has also worked extensively with Oval House Theatre in London between 2004-2009 as a freelance director.
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