ALISTER SMITH - Director 

Alister is a proud  Melbourne based Greenroom Award winning Theatre Director and Dramaturge. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Theatre Directing) and The Arts Academy Ballarat (Company 2004 - Music Theatre Performance). Alister is the founder and Artistic Director of The Smith Company & The Actor Workshop. He works extensively with performing arts students within the University sector working with the Victorian College of the Arts , Federation University (formally The Arts Academy) the National Theatre Drama School and The Queensland Conservatorium / The Academy of Excellence.  Alister just completed work directing Mart Crowley’s seminal play The Boys In The Band for The James Terry Collective at Chapel off Chapel. Alister’s most recent work Elvis: A Musical Revolution is an international première and is currently on a national tour. Most recently Alister has directed the national tour of Cruel Intentions The 90’s Musical (Australian Première - DVE) which has just completed playing across the country as well as the international tour of The Wedding Singer (Australian Première - DVE). With a career spanning 20 years some of Alister’s  creative highlights include: Billy Elliot (Footlight Productions & Geelong Arts Centre), Legally Blonde (Griffith University Academy of Excellence - Music Theatre), Heathers! (VCA Music Theatre); Cry-Baby (QLD Academy of Excellence in Music Theatre); A Very Naughty Christmas (Woodward Productions); Into The Woods (Federation University); Fiddler On The Roof (Footlight Productions); 42nd Street (The QLD Conservatory); Grease (The QLD Conservatory & QPAC); Romeo & Juliet (Essential Theatre); Bring It On: The Musical (Australian Première and national tour - DVE); Heathers! (Federation University); Macbeth (Essential Theatre); London Road (The QLD Conservatory); The Drowsy Chaperone (VCA Music Theatre); The Boys (VCA Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (VCA Theatre); Chicago (Federation University); Les Miserables (The QLD Conservatory); The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Federation University); Wicked (Footlight Productions); Project: Hysteria - A Tennessee Williams Exploration (TBC Theatre Company); Femme Fatale (Melbourne Fringe 2015); URINETOWN! The Musical (VCA Music Theatre); Slavs! (The National Theatre Drama School); Pacific Overtures (Watch This Theatre Company & Manila Street Productions); Penelope (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); Himmelweg (The Smith Co); Behind Closed Doors (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); Tribes (The Melbourne Theatre Company); Hose (MKA Theatre of New Writing); John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt (VCA); The Threepenny Opera (The Smith Co).