Reginald Dawson Livermore was born on 11 December 1938 and is an Australian actor, singer, theatrical performer, designer, director, lyricist and writer and former television presenter.
34 Facts About Reg Livermore
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From a young age, Livermore demonstrated an interest in the performing arts.
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Reg Livermore hired the Mosman Town Hall in 1955 and again in 1956 to stage Snow White, and then Mother Goose.
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Reg Livermore was initially a student of Doris Fitton's at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.
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Reg Livermore appeared in Ensemble productions of Orpheus Descending, The Drunkard, The Double Dealer, The Canterville Ghost, The Thracian Horses, Miss Lonely Hearts, The Physicists and The Real Inspector Hound.
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Reg Livermore moved to Melbourne for a two and a half-year stint with the Union Theatre Repertory Company, performing in the works of Rattigan, Ionesco, Shakespeare, Peter Ustinov, Bram Stoker and Patrick White.
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Reg Livermore made his directorial debut in a new production of The Shifting Heart by Australian playwright Richard Beynon and wrote his first musical The Good Ship Walter Raleigh.
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Reg Livermore performed in the Independent Theatre production Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad with Lyndall Barbour, followed up by The Importance of Being Earnest at the Old Tote Theatre Company with Sophie Stewart and Ron Haddrick.
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Reg Livermore's first known TV role was in the early Australian TV adventure series Whiplash.
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Reg Livermore had a prominent role the groundbreaking Commonwealth Film Unit documentary From the Tropics to the Snow and featured in the historic ABC-TV production of The Recruiting Officer, notable as the first play ever performed in the newly founded colony of New South Wales, in 1789.
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Reg Livermore gained his first starring role in TV as the host of the ABC version of the children's comedy series Crackerjack, and was a featured cast member for the final season of the satirical sketch series The Mavis Bramston Show.
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Reg Livermore then became the first guest of the newly formed South Australia Theatre Company performing Andorra by Max Frisch and West of the Black Stump which he wrote with Sandra McKenzie.
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In 1969 Reg Livermore added to his musical credits in The Mikado.
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Reg Livermore originally joined as a member of "the Tribe", then became the understudy to Keith Glass who played the role of Berger.
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When Glass left the production in 1970 Reg Livermore took over as Berger, and Hair rapidly elevated his commercial and theatrical profile.
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In 1975, at the request of producer Eric Dare, Reg Livermore conceived his first one-man show, Betty Blokk-buster Follies, which played to record crowds in Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.
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In December 1977, Reg Livermore's musical Ned Kelly written with composer Patrick Flynn opened in Adelaide, produced by the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust.
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Reg Livermore wrote, directed and designed the show but did not perform in it.
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Reg Livermore wrote and performed the highly successful Red Riding Hood, the Speed Hump and the Wolf at the Clarendon and the Ensemble Theatre again, before receiving an Australian Artist Creative Fellowship through the Australia Council.
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In 1996 Reg Livermore was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia.
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In 1998 Reg Livermore wrote and performed Home Sweet Home, Leonard's Last Hurrah for the Clarendon Guest House, followed by a season at the Melbourne Festival, and then at the Sydney Opera House in 1999.
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Reg Livermore starred as The Lord Chancellor in a sell out, three times extended season.
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Mid 2003 Reg Livermore auditioned in Los Angeles for Mel Brooks and director Susan Stroman, winning the leading role of Max Bialystock in the new Brooks musical The Producers subsequently playing Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to great acclaim.
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In 2006 Reg Livermore played the Duke of Plaza Toro in the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera The Gondoliers for Opera Australia.
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In 2008 Reg Livermore took the role of Professor Henry Higgins for Opera Australia's production of My Fair Lady in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane.
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In 2011, Reg Livermore toured Australia with Nancye Hayes in his self penned show Turns for Christine Dunstan Productions.
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In February 2014, Reg Livermore was signed for the role of The Wizard in the stage show Wicked commencing in May 2014 playing in both Melbourne and Sydney.
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Reg Livermore won a Helpmann Award for the role of The Wizard and in the same year received the Sydney Theatre Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award.
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In 2017, Reg Livermore was honored with the Helpmann Awards, JC Williamson Centenary Medal from Live Performance Australia.
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In May 2021 Reg Livermore and McMicking married in a small private ceremony at their home in Bowral.
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Reg Livermore received Melbourne's Green Room Award for Male Performer in a Supporting Role in music theatre for The Pirates of Penzance in 1992.
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In 2011 an exhibition at Arts Centre Melbourne celebrated Reg Livermore's career, featuring his roles in The Rocky Horror Show, Barnum and The Producers, and his groundbreaking solo shows that began with Betty Blokk-buster Follies.
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In 2019, Reg Livermore received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance.
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In 2015, Reg Livermore was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Theatre Awards.