about david lampard
David is an award-winning director, production designer and writer. His work is consistently praised for its creativity, playfulness and dark originality.
Theatre credits as a director and/or designer include musicals, opera, children’s theatre and more recently, plays. His work has appeared in many festivals, including the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Something On Saturday program.
Between 2014 and 2015, David was an emerging artist with State Opera SA, directing and designing a string of workshops, as well as four one act operas. He has since directed and designed two new mainstage productions for this company – Die Fledermaus and The Magic Flute.
David is a co-founder of Six Foot Something Productions, directing and designing Picture Perfect (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Next To Normal (co-production with The Factory), Elegies: A Song Cycle (co-production with SINGular Productions) and The Last Five Years. With this company he also collaborates with other artists and science communicators to create “Science Theatre” — through a suite of programs called That Science Gang.
As a performer, David’s credits include television, children’s theatre, opera and musicals.
resume
| The Alphabet of Awesome Science (2019 to present) | Director, Designer, Performer |
| You Are a Doughnut (2022) | Director, Designer, Performer |
| This Show is NOT Rubbish! (2019 to 2020) | Director, Designer, Performer |
| Buckley: The Opera (2019) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Die Fledermaus (2017) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Seussical Jnr (2017) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Class of Cabaret (2016 to 2018) | Director |
| Demons | Workshop (2017) | Designer (set) |
| Just Add Water (2014 to 2017) | Director, Designer (set) |
| The One He Loved | Workshop, New Work (2017) | |
| Saul (2017) | Assistant Director |
| Summer Showcase (2016) | Director |
| Die Fledermaus (2016) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Famous (2016) | Director |
| The Country (2016) | Designer (set) |
| The Magic Flute (2016) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| Just Add Water (2014 to 2016) | Director, Designer (set) |
| The Mikado (2016) | Designer (set / costumes) |
| Bastien und Bastienne (2015) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| La Chanson de Fortunio (2015) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life (2015) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Maestro Series 2 | Passion (2015) | Director |
| Bluebeard’s Castle (2015) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| Il Segreto di Susanna (2015) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| Summer Showcase (2014) | Director |
| Hansel and Gretel (2014) | Director, Designer (set / costumes) |
| Winter Showcase (2014) | Director |
| Picture Perfect (2014) | Director, Designer (set) |
| The Block to Broadway… And Beyond (2014) | Director |
| La Traviata (2014) | Assistant Director |
| Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life – Concert Version (2014) | Director |
| Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life (2013) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Next to Normal (2012) | Director, Designer (set) |
| The Magic Flute (2012) | Designer (set / costumes) |
| It’s A Dad Thing (2010) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Into The Woods (2010) | Designer (set / costumes) |
| Die Fliegende Hollander (2009) | Assistant Director |
| Elegies: A Song Cycle (2008) | Director, Designer (set) |
| The Last Five Years (2007) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Rock Chick & Science Geek in… (2006 to 2013) | Director, Designer (set) |
| Six Foot Something Productions / Adelaide Fringe Festival | The May Wirth, Gluttony |
| Six Foot Something Productions / Adelaide Fringe Festival | The Parasol Lounge, Gluttony |
| Antony Ransome | Memorial Hall, Rosebud |
| State Opera SA | Her Majesty’s Theatre |
| Pelican Productions | Norwood Concert Hall |
| Adelaide Cabaret Festival | The Space Theatre |
| Stone Castro | Adelaide Festival Centre |
| That Science Gang / SA Water | Various |
| SINGular Productions | |
| A Glyndebourne Festival Opera Production / Adelaide Festival | The Festival Theatre |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA / The Elder Conservatorium | The Opera Studio |
| Popjam Productions | New Work / Workshop |
| Stone Castro (Adelaide Festival) | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA | The Masonic Hall |
| That Science Gang / SA Water | Various |
| Co-Opera / G&S SA | National Tour (Australia) |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| Popjam Productions | National Tour (SA, VIC, NSW, QLD, ACT) |
| Adelaide Youth Orchestras / State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| The Elder Conservatorium | Elder Hall |
| State Opera SA | The Opera Studio |
| Six Foot Something Productions / Adelaide Cabaret Festival | Festival Theatre Banquet Room |
| Popjam Productions / Adelaide Cabaret Festival | Festival Theatre Artspace |
| State Opera SA | The Festival Theatre |
| Popjam Productions | 54 Below (New York) Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, United Nations |
| Popjam Productions | Star Theatres (Adelaide) Chapel Off Chapel (Melbourne) Karralyka Centre (Melbourne) Seymour Centre (Sydney) |
| Six Foot Something Productions / The Factory | The Opera Studio |
| The Elder Conservatorium | The Scott Theatre |
| SINGular Productions | The Opera Studio |
| The Elder Conservatorium | AC Arts Theatre |
| State Opera SA | The Festival Theatre |
| Six Foot Something Productions / SINGular | The Opera Studio |
| Six Foot Something Productions / OOTS | The Little Theatre + tour |
| Science Rocks | Various Theatres |
