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Ben Winspear
Ben Winspear (born 1975 or 1976) is an Australian actor and director. He has an extensive history performing for theatre, and on screen is known for appearing in comedy drama series Bay of Fires (2023).
Ben Winspear was born around 1975/1976 in Wagga Wagga, and was raised alongside younger brother Dallas in Hobart, Tasmania, where he attended an alternative community school. His father Les was a founding member of Hobart's Big Monkey Theatre.
In 1995, at the age of 19, Winspear relocated to Sydney, after being accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He graduated in 1997, with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting).
Winspear has had a long career in theatre, as actor, adaptor, assistant director, director, dramaturge, lighting designer, performer, scenic artist and set designer. His first credited role was as flyman for a 1990 production of Don Pasquale at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.
In 1998, after graduating from NIDA, Winspear was cast as Edmund in a production of King Lear for Bell Shakespeare. In 2002, he appeared in Same Same But Different, a major work created by Kate Champion with dance theatre company Force Majeure, touring the eastern states of Australia. That same year, he appeared in a stage production of Great Expectations at the Sydney Opera House.
Winspear was resident director at Sydney Theatre Company from 2003 to 2005, during which time he directed Morph, These People, This Little Piggy, The Metamorphosis, and Thyestes.
In 2008, Winspear played Viktor in a Sydney Theatre Company production of Frankenstein. In 2009, he appeared in Baghdad Wedding for Company B. He later appeared with wife Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage for Queensland Theatre, in 2017.
Additionally, Winspear was an associate artist for Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company, and has worked as assistant director with Barrie Kosky, Robyn Nevin, Howard Davies, Garry McDonald, and Jean-Pierre Mignon. Later, for Archipelago Productions, he directed sellout seasons of The Maids by Jean Genet, and Winterreise by Franz Schubert, as well as productions of The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini, which re-opened the Theatre Royal, and Venus and Adonis.
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Ben Winspear
Ben Winspear (born 1975 or 1976) is an Australian actor and director. He has an extensive history performing for theatre, and on screen is known for appearing in comedy drama series Bay of Fires (2023).
Ben Winspear was born around 1975/1976 in Wagga Wagga, and was raised alongside younger brother Dallas in Hobart, Tasmania, where he attended an alternative community school. His father Les was a founding member of Hobart's Big Monkey Theatre.
In 1995, at the age of 19, Winspear relocated to Sydney, after being accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He graduated in 1997, with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting).
Winspear has had a long career in theatre, as actor, adaptor, assistant director, director, dramaturge, lighting designer, performer, scenic artist and set designer. His first credited role was as flyman for a 1990 production of Don Pasquale at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.
In 1998, after graduating from NIDA, Winspear was cast as Edmund in a production of King Lear for Bell Shakespeare. In 2002, he appeared in Same Same But Different, a major work created by Kate Champion with dance theatre company Force Majeure, touring the eastern states of Australia. That same year, he appeared in a stage production of Great Expectations at the Sydney Opera House.
Winspear was resident director at Sydney Theatre Company from 2003 to 2005, during which time he directed Morph, These People, This Little Piggy, The Metamorphosis, and Thyestes.
In 2008, Winspear played Viktor in a Sydney Theatre Company production of Frankenstein. In 2009, he appeared in Baghdad Wedding for Company B. He later appeared with wife Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage for Queensland Theatre, in 2017.
Additionally, Winspear was an associate artist for Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company, and has worked as assistant director with Barrie Kosky, Robyn Nevin, Howard Davies, Garry McDonald, and Jean-Pierre Mignon. Later, for Archipelago Productions, he directed sellout seasons of The Maids by Jean Genet, and Winterreise by Franz Schubert, as well as productions of The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini, which re-opened the Theatre Royal, and Venus and Adonis.