Stage Director

Brett Nicholas Brown is a director, actor, librettist, and the Artistic Director of Expressions of Interest. He began his career as a child soloist with Opera Australia and later trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Brett’s directorial credits include Catalina’s Story (“Marin Sorescu” National Theatre of Romania); Tiresias (Bloomsbury Festival, London); Vivaldi: Lovers and Warriors, Ich Habe Genug, You Say You Want A Revolution, Postcards, To Sleep Perchance To Dream (Expressions of Interest); and The Wild Party (RADA). Future projects include Pelopida(Valletta Baroque Festival), and Alas, He’s Mad (European tour).

As an actor, Brett’s highlights include work with Almeida, BBC, Park Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Wise Children, York Theatre Royal (UK); ABC Classic, Camerata, Omega Ensemble (Australia); Cooltour (Czech Republic); HamletScenen (Denmark); Gangdong Arts Center (South Korea); and film appearances including the Academy Award-winning The Theory of Everything (Working Title). His award-winning solo production Henry V [Man and Monarch] has toured extensively across Europe, Asia, and Australia with recent performances at the Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival, Chișinău International Shakespeare Festival in Moldova, and Babel International Festival of Performing Arts in Târgoviște, Romania.

Brett enjoys a longstanding collaboration with Maestro David Coleman. He wrote the text for Coleman’s choral work Aer et Aqua (Accademia Teatro alla Scala), and is writing the libretti for Coleman’s operas Fusion and Niccoluccio’s Wife. Brett also collaborated with Coleman on new orchestral arrangements for La Bayadère, La Sylphide, and Giselle (Semperoper Dresden), and Le Corsaire (Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse).

Brett is a Fellow of both the Guild of Musicians and Singers and the Institute of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of Ars Musica Australis, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Creative Partnerships Australia, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and the Opus 50 Trust.