30.11.23
Dear Grif-friend, This week marks a year since I started here at Griffin as General Manager. It also marks 53 years since the very first production at the SBW Stables Theatre took place (Biggles by Michael Boddy, Ron Blair and…
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16.11.23
Kia ora Grif-friend! This fortnight’s recipient of the Marketing team’s doe eyes and fluttering lashes is me, Gary, the Ticketing Manager here at Griffin. For authenticity you need to read this note with the flattened vowel sounds of a Kiwi…
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02.11.23
Dear Grif-friend, My name’s Julian and I’m the Literary Associate at Griffin Theatre Company. I work across our Creative Programs—Griffin Studio, Griffin Award and Griffin Ambassadors! This means I have the immense pleasure of getting down to the nitty gritty of…
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19.10.23
Dear Grif-friend, Alex here, Front of House Manager of our rag-tag bunch of theatremakers. You probably know me as the “man with the big back paddock voice” (actual feedback from someone who attended the venue) doing the pre-show announcement in…
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17.10.23
Verity Hampson is one of Australia’s most prolific lighting designers. Her designs have featured at the SBW Stables Theatre more than any other designer of the past 20 years, and this year she has worked on three back-to-back productions at Griffin….
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05.10.23
Dear Grif-friend, It’s been a whirlwind week for Griffin. In case you missed it, we launched our 2024 Season! Last Tuesday evening, the staff, board and (some of the) extended family of Griffin gathered in the Cell Block Theatre at…
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22.09.23
For 44 years, Griffin Theatre Company has celebrated the Australian voice. And there is no Australian voice more fundamental to our nation’s identity than that of its First Peoples. The storytelling of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities has taken…
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21.09.23
Dear Grif-friend, Well, well well… if it isn’t me, Cassie Hamilton, Griffin’s Associate Producer, writing the note for this edition of Griffin News! I handle coordinating all the productions at Griffin with our Senior Producer Leila Enright. We sort of…
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07.09.23
Dear Grif-friend, The Griffin office is bursting at the seams with anticipation, raucous laughter and the collective sound of busy hands crunching at keyboards—because we’re less than three weeks away from announcing our 2024 Season (!!!). I am so immensely…
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24.08.23
Hello! Happy last week of August! How has that happened already? This is your friendly reminder to start stocking up on your Telfast or whatever antihistamine you might need because SPRING IS AROUND THE CORNER!!! So lovely to e-meet you!…
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