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Marion Potts is an Australian theatre director.

At the University of Sydney, she joined the Sydney University Dramatic Society and contemplated a career in theatre after studying theatre symbiotics with an inspiring female academic. She studied directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.[1]

She has directed productions for many of Australia's major theatre companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Griffin Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare and Victorian Opera.

Potts was a Resident Director for the Sydney Theatre Company from 1995 to 1999. She was Bell Shakespeare’s Associate Artistic Director and Artistic Director of its development arm, Mind’s Eye, from 2005 to 2010.[2] She was Artistic Director of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne from 2010 to 2015. She became Director of Theatre with the Australia Council in 2015.[3]

Potts received the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2006 for her production The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.

  1. ^ Lambert, Catherine (September 11, 2014). "Power women of the arts". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2017-06-16. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "At play within a poem". www.theage.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ Cuthbertson, Debbie (2015-01-20). "Marion Potts to leave Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre for the Australia Council". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-16.