1. Simon Stone was born on 19 August 1984 and is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor.
13 Facts About Simon Stone
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Simon Stone's father, Stuart Stone, was a biochemist and his mother, Eleanor Mackie, a veterinary scientist.
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Stuart Simon Stone died of a heart attack aged 45; Simon Stone, aged 12 at the time, witnessed it, and has spoken about the ways in which that trauma has influenced his work.
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In 2007 Simon Stone founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project and adapted and directed their inaugural production of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening.
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Simon Stone directed The Cherry Orchard for Melbourne Theatre Company in 2013.
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In 2016, Simon Stone premiered an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma at the Young Vic in London.
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Simon Stone directed Luigi Cherubini's opera Medee at the 2019 Salzburg Festival, returning there in 2023 for Martinu's The Greek Passion sung in English.
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Simon Stone took his production of Euripides' Medea, with Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2020.
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Simon Stone made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2022 with Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, set in present-day America's Rust Belt.
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Simon Stone's updated adaptation of Phaedra was produced at the National Theatre February to April 2023; the company included Mackenzie Davis, Assaad Bouab and Janet McTeer.
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Simon Stone has acted in the television series John Safran's Music Jamboree, MDA, Blue Heelers, Rush, City Homicide, and the films Jindabyne, Kokoda, Balibo, Blame, and The Eye of the Storm.
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Simon Stone directed the British drama film The Dig in 2021.
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Simon Stone married Jessamy Dyer in 2004 though the marriage ended in divorce.