David Berthold Net Worth is
$1.9 Million
David Berthold Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
David Berthold is a leading Australian theatre director. He has directed for most of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as internationally. Since November 2008, he has been Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of La Boite Theatre Company. He will leave that position in June 2014 to become the Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival.He was previously Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company (2003–06), Artistic Director of the Australian Theatre for Young People (1999–2003), Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company (1994–99), and Artistic Associate of the Queensland Theatre Company (1991–94). He has also directed work for Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, Black Swan, Belvoir, the Sydney Opera House, NIDA, Queensland University of Technology, La Boite Theatre Company, Opera Queensland, Auckland Theatre Company, the Royal National Theatre (London), Theater an der Parkaue (Berlin), and in London's West End. He was the Festival Director of World Interplay 2007, the world's largest festival of young playwrights. In 2013, he curated a stream of independent theatre for the Brisbane Festival.Arts Hub claimed in 2006 that Berthold "turned Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company into one of the country's most visible arts companies."Berthold has directed many premieres of plays by major Australian writers and is particularly associated with the work of Nick Enright, Louis Nowra and Tommy Murphy.In 1992 he won a Matilda Award for his Contribution to Theatre in Queensland and in 1993 served on the Queensland Government's Arts Advisory Committee. In 2010, after his return to Queensland, he won another Matilda Award for his "repositioning of La Boite Theatre Company and his direction of Hamlet and I Love You, Bro". He has served on many government and industry panels and committees as an arts advocate and advisor, including for the Australia Council, Arts Queensland, NIDA, the Australian Musical Foundation, and several universities.Berthold was born in Maitland, NSW, also the birthplace of Nick Enright, John Bell, Ruth Cracknell and Abbie Cornish, and studied (and later taught) at the University of Newcastle, where he took an honours degree in English literature. He spent some years training as an opera singer and won the Joan Sutherland Scholarship at the Sydney Opera House. In 1989, he undertook a secondment with the English National Opera. He has since directed some opera.In 2014 he was appointed artistic director of The Brisbane Festival.
