BIO

Jethro Woodward is a Melbourne-based composer, musical director, arranger, musician and sound designer recognised for his expansive and highly layered film, theatre and dance scores. 

A multi Green Room Award winner and Helpmann nominee, he has worked with some of Australia’s leading major and independent companies including; Malthouse Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company. Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Victoria, Chamber Made Opera, Back to Back, Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin, Australian Dance Theatre, Aphids, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Rawcus, KAGE and more.

A composition graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts, Jethro draws upon his detailed understanding of contemporary music and its uses in live performance, including innovative uses of technology, combining live instrumentation with prerecorded, electronic, musical and sound elements into a seamless flexible and responsive score.

Jethro regularly tours his work internationally and has won Green Room Awards for his work on; The Bloody Chamber (Malthouse Theatre), Moth (Malthouse Theatre / Arena Theatre), Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (Malthouse Theatre / Arena Theatre) and Irony Is Not Enough (Fragment 31). As a guitarist and singer he regularly performs with Meow Meow, and has been a member of the band Cordarzine over the past 15 years.

  • Recipient of the 2018 Green Room Technical Achievement Award.

    2018 Green Room Award | Music Composition & Sound Design | Song For A Weary Throat | in collaboration with co-composer Gian Slater & The Invineo Singers

    2018 Green Room Award | Best Design, Alternative & Hybrid | For the Ones Who walk Away | St Martins Youth Theatre | Jethro Woodward, Richard Vabre & Emily Barrie.

    2018 Green Room Award | Sound & Composition, Theatre Companies | The Bloody Chamber | Malthouse Theatre | David Chisholm & Jethro Woodward

    2013 Green Room Award | Sound & Composition, Alternative & Hybrid | Irony is not enough | Fragment 31

    2010 Green Room Award | Sound & Composition ,Theatre Companies | Moth | Arena Theatre Co & Malthouse

    2010 Green Room Award| Sound & Composition, Theatre Companies | Say Goodbye to Vaudeville Charlie Mudd | Arena Theatre Co & Malthouse | Mark Jones & Jethro Woodward.

  • 2014 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work | Pinocchio (Windmill)

    2014 Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children | Pinocchio (Windmill)

    2009 Advertiser Box Office Awards Winner for Best Theatre Show | The Wizard of Oz (windmill)

    2008 Classical Music Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education | Hunger (Rawcus)

    2004 Green Room Award winner for Best Independent Production | Eisteddfod (Stuck Pigs Squealing)

  • 2024 Green Room Award Nomination for outstanding Composition & sound Design | Sunday (Melbourne Theatre Co.)

    2024 Green Room Award Nomination for outstanding Composition & sound Design | Escaped Alone and What If If only (Melbourne. Theatre Co.)

    2018 Sydney Theatre Awards for best Sound Design For A Main stage Production | Sammi In Paradise (Belvoir Theatre)

    2014 Helpmann Nomination for best Original Score | Pinocchio (Windmill)

    2014 Helpmann Nomination for best Sound Design | The Bloody Chamber (Malthouse)

    2013 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Skeleton

    2013 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Opera For A Small Mammal (ChamberMade Opera)

    2011 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Small Odysseys (Rawcus Theatre)

    2010 Helpmann Award Nomination for best Musical | The Wizard Of Oz,

    2008 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | The Inhabited Man

    2008 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music (Zoe Barry And Jethro Woodward) | The Heart Of Another Is A Dark Forest (Rawcus Theatre)

    2007 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Hunger (Rawcus Theatre)

    2007 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design Criminology (Arena & Malthouse Theatre)

    2007 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Damask Drum (Liminal Theatre)

    2005 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music Black Medea (Malthouse & Belvoir Theatre)

    2004 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music Duets Of Desire, Mishima In The City (Liminal Theatre)

    2004 Green Room Award Nomination for best Sound Design & Music | Sideshow (Rawcus)

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