Adam Cook currently holds the position of Fulltime Course Director, Actors Centre Australia. From 2005 to 2012 was Artistic Director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia. He attended the NIDA Directors Course in 1988. His directing credits include:
State Theatre Company of South Australia: THE HAM FUNERAL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, THREE SISTERS, NOVEMBER, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, ARCHITEKIN, BLUE/ORANGE, LITTLE WOMEN, UNCLE VANYA, LIFE X 3, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, THE DAYLIGHT ATHEIST, NOISES OFF, CROW, THE SHIFTING HEART. Old Fitz Theatre: A STEADY RAIN. Hayes Theatre: HAIR TO THE THRONE. Sydney Theatre Company: THE DAYLIGHT ATHEIST, MONGRELS, THE SUM OF US, FAMILY RUNNING FOR MR WHIPPY, THREE AUSTRALIAN POETS, THE CIRCLE OF THE BEAST, LYREBIRD: TALES OF HELPMANN (also Adelaide Festival, national and international tour, Edinburgh Festival, City of London Festival). Company B/MTC/Melbourne and Brisbane Festivals: THE AUNT’S STORY. Company B: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, COSI. Belvoir Street: RECKLESS, LOW LEVEL PANIC, ASHES TO ASHES, MADAME MELVILLE. Ensemble: ALL MY SONS,BROKEN GLASS, AFTERPLAY, THE YALTA GAME, SPINNING INTO BUTTER, NOISES OFF, A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS, LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, THE NINTH STEP, DIVING FOR PEARLS. MTC: PIAF. SOH/Playbox: THE ELOCUTION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Griffin: KAYAK. Bell Shakespeare: THE WINTERS TALE. Opera De Montreal: LAKME. Opera Australia: LAKME. OzOpera: LA BOHEME,CARMEN. OzOpera/Windmill Performing Arts: MIDNITE. Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney Festivals, 2002 BITE Festival at the Barbican: THE GHOST WIFE. Eternity Playhouse: THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT. Sport for Jove: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, A DOLL’S HOUSE. The Production Company: HIGH SOCIETY. Adelaide Festival of the Arts: SONGS FROM THE YELLOW BEDROOM. Festival of the Dreaming: NATHANIEL STORM. ATYP: ACTION. Marian Street: DOWN AN ALLEY FILLED WITH CATS, QUARTET. NIDA: LOVE FOR LOVE, ALL IN THE TIMING, ROAD, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE WATER ENGINE, OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD, THE GOLDEN AGE, CYMBELINE, THE WINTER’S TALE, TWELFTH NIGHT, A FLEA IN HER EAR, OTHELLO, RICHARD III, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE FATHER WE LOVED ON A BEACH BY THE SEA, INSIDE THE ISLAND. Q Theatre: GOOD WORKS, THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR. QPAC/La Boite: COSI. WAAPA: TED HUGHES’TALES FROM OVID, SCENES FROM THE BIG PICTURE. ACTT:SPRING AWAKENING. SGL Mardi Gras: THE STARS COME OUT. Theatre Nepean: THE JUNGLE. Andrew Kay Productions: HORRIBLE HISTORIES.
Awards: Sydney Critics Circle/John Tasker Award for Freelance Services to Sydney Theatre for Cosi. 2000 Victorian Green Room nomination for Best Director of a Musical for Piaf. 1999 Scotsman’s Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival for Outstanding Production of a New Work for LYREBIRD: TALES OF HELPMANN.
