Dean Bryant is an award-winning director and writer. 

He was Associate Director of Melbourne Theatre Company from 2016 to 2019 where his credits include Torch the Place, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lady in the Van, An Ideal Husband, Wild, Vivid White, Born Yesterday, Skylight, I’ll Eat You Last, Next to Normal, Fun Home, with the latter being a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company.

For Hayes Theatre Company he directed Assassins, Sweet Charity (Helpmann Award) and Little Shop of Horrors (Sydney Theatre Award) and Merrily We Roll Along (Sydney Theatre Award nomination).

For Opera Australia he has directed Two Weddings, One Bride and Anything Goes (co-production with GFO). Other directing credits include The Skin of Our Teeth (VCA); Once We Lived Here (London season); DreamSong (Theatre Works); Straight (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), The Last Five Years (Stables) and five musicals for The Production Company. 

Most recently, he directed The Normal Heart for the State Theatre Company South Australia.

With composer Mathew Frank, he wrote Green Room Award-winning musicals Prodigal and Once We Lived Here, as well as Virgins: A Musical Threesome, The Silver Donkey and an Amy Winehouse musical for Channel 10’s Mr & Mrs Murder. The pair just debuted a musical version of My Brilliant Career, and the cast recording is on Spotify and iTunes. He has created numerous award-winning cabarets, including the Christie Whelan-Browne triumph Britney Spears: The Cabaret.

He created verbatim pieces Gaybies (Midsumma, Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and this year’s Well, That Happened for MTC. He is Worldwide Associate Director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – The Musical and is a graduate of WAAPA.

www.deanjamesbryant.com