MUSIC
MUSIC THEATRE | CABARET | ALBUMS
HUNTING AT DAWN
Hunting At Dawn is an improvised musical collaboration between three musicians, of diverse, multidisciplinary backgrounds, Jethro Woodward, Nicholas Murray and Ralf Rehak. Creating an eclectic, ethereal, visceral, improvised musical form that draws on cinematic score, soundscape, and reimagines key pivotal moments of collective musical consciousness as diverse as Stockhausen to Hendrix.
Album out soon……...
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Nick Murray - Electric Guitar
Ralf Rehak - Drums and percussion
Jethro Woodward - Electric GuitarRecorded live - Headgap Studios, Melbourne. Australia
Engineer - Neil Thomason
Mixed - Casey Rice
Mastered - Deluxe Mastering, Melbourne, Australia
Engineer: Adam Dempsey
Video by Fred Kroh
LAZARUS
PRODUCTION COMPANY 2019 | By Davids Bowie & Edna Walsh
Australian premiere of the ground-breaking musical: Lazarus was the final project of David Bowie. First staged in New York in late 2015, Lazarus has enjoyed sell out seasons in New York and London.
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Production Company
Director: Michael Kantor
Musical Director: Jethro Woodward
Choreographer: Stephanie Lake
Costumes And Set: Anna Cordingley
Lighting: Paul Jackson
Film Director: Natasha Pincus
Sound: System Sound
Original Orchestrations And Arrangements: Henry HeyThe Production Company Orchestra
Image: Jeff Busby
MEOW MEOWs THE RED SHOES
MALTHOUSE | BELVOIR | BLACK SWAN
From a chorus of hairy fawns to singing swans and showgirl stars, experience an unforgettable, frenetic song-and-dance into meaning. Having wowed New York's Carnegie Hall, the world-renowned performer behind Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl and Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid now urgently remedies ‘The Red Shoes’. This fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen brutally punished its covetous protagonist with an ever-dancing curse that propelled her far from heaven’s gates.
MALTHOUSE 2025 | BELVOIR 2025 | BLACK SWAN 2026
2026 Green Room Award WINNER for Outstanding Composition & Sound Design. (Theatre Companies)
2026 Green Room Award WINNER for Outstanding Production. (Theatre Companies)
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Creator & Performer: Meow Meow
Director: Kate Champion
Musical Director & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
Set & Costume Designer: Dann Barber
Lighting Designer: Rachel Burke
Stage Manager: Lisa Osborn
Cast: Kanen Breen, Mark Jones, Meow Meow, Dan WittonImages: Brett Boardman
PINOCCHIO
WINDMILL & STATE THEATRE CO
Based on the classic tale and boldly retold as a witty, gothic, rocking, family music theatre spectacular, Pinocchio is a contemporary celebration of the ‘whatever’ generation
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Director, Co-Writer: Rosemary Myers
Writer: Julianne O'Brien
Composer & Musical Director:Jethro Woodward
Video Designer: Chris More
Lighting Designer: Geoff Cobham
Movement: Carol Wellman Kelly
Musician: Paul White
Designer: Jonathon OxladeCast Includes: Paul Capsis, Mitchell Butel, Jude Henshall, Danielle Catanzariti, Nathan O’Keefe, Alirio Zavarce
Seasons: Adelaide Festival Centre, Malthouse Melbourne, Sydney Opera House 2014, New Victory Theatre NYC 2015
2014 Helpmann Award: Best New Australian Work & Best Presentation for children
RUMPLESTILTSKIN
WINDMILL & STATE THEATRE CO
Spinning straw into gold is a party trick that will take you far. It can buy you a big house full of beautiful things, a wardrobe of designer clothes and a life of total luxury, but money, as they say, can’t buy you…
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Director, Co-Writer: Rosemary Myers
Co-Writer:Julianne O'Brien
Designer: Jonathon Oxlad
Composer, Musical Director: Jethro Woodward
Lighting Designer: Gavin Norris
Technical Manager: Chris Petridis
Animator: Chris Edser
Movement: Carol Wellman Kelly
Musician: Paul WhiteCast: Paul Capsis, Michaela Burger, Mitchell Butel, Elena Carapetis, Sheridan Harbridge, Ezra Juanta, Alirio Zavarce
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE 2017
LONDON SOUTHBANK THEATRE 2018/2019
MEOW MEOW: THE LITTLE MERMAID
Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid / is a decidedly un-Disney cabaret, where sexy spectacle drips into a bittersweet take on what constitutes a ‘happy ending’. Join post-postmodern diva Meow Meow as she raucously subverts Hans Christian Andersen’s mermaid tale of teen self-sacrifice, salvation and seduction
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Created & Performed: Meow Meow
Direction Michael: Kantor
Set & Costume Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Musical Direction & Orchestration: Jethro Woodward
Dramaturg: Tom Wright
Comedy Direction: Cal Mccrystal
Choreography: Kate DenboroughMusical Composition By Amanda Palmer, Jherek Bischoff, Megan Washington, Kate Miller-Heidke, Iain Grandage, Thomas M Lauderdale
Featuring Chris Ryan & The Siren Effect Orchestra
Commissioned by Malthouse Theatre
Sydney Festival 2016
Malthouse Theatre Melbourne 2016
Perth International Arts Festival 2016
Auckland Festival NZ 2016
Brisbane Festival 2016
Edinburgh International Festival 2017
RAPTURE
SYDNEY FETIVAL 2021
Multi-award-winning vocalists and performers Paul Capsis and iOTA unleash an intimate and powerful contemporary song cycle for the end-times, spanning themes of ecstasy and desire, exorcism and repression, love and murder.
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Conceived by Michael Kantor with Natasha Pincus, Tom Wright, and Jethro Woodward
Director Michael Kantor
Performers Paul Capsis, iOTA
Orchestrations & Musical Direction: Jethro Woodward
Set & Costume Designer Anna Cordingley
Video Designer Nick Roux
Lighting Designer Paul Jackson
Text & Dramaturgy Tom Wright
String Arrangements Jenny M. Thomas & Jethro WoodwardFor Sydney Season:
Guitar & Keyboard Isaac Hayward
Violin Veronique Serret
Violin Stephanie Zarka
Viola Carl St. Jacques
Cellist Jack WardOriginal Songs by Megan Washington, Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier, Peter Farnan, Jethro Woodward and iOTA
ANOTHER LAMENT
CHAMBERMADE & RAWCUS THEATRE
Another Lament, directed by Kate Sulan. Originally presented in a private living room, this beautiful improvisation on Henry Purcell’s music will see the Beckett Theatre transformed into a kind of living room.
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Performed by Ida Duelund (double bass, voice) and Jethro Woodward (sound design).
Composed by Ida Duelund and Jethro Woodward after Henry Purcell.
Directed by Kate Sulan
Lighting Design Richard Vabre
Set and Costume Design Emily BarriePerformed by Rawcus ensemble members Clem Baade, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven
THE BLACK RIDER
Malthouse Theatre & Victorian Opera | 2017
A naïve hunter travels to a crossroads in the dead of night to conjure the devil. He’s willing to bargain almost anything in exchange for magic silver bullets that will never miss their mark. But the devil makes cunning deals—just when you think you can have it all, you may have unwittingly given it all away.
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Original Music & Lyrics: Tom Waits
Text: William S. BurroughsDirection: Matthew Lutton
Musical Direction: Phoebe Briggs
Music Supervision: Iain Grandage
Set & Costume Design: Zoë Atkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Sound Design: Jim Atkins
Soundscape Design: Jethro Woodward
Choreographer: Stephanie Lake
Original Direction: Robert WilsonCast Includes: Kanen Breen, Paul Capsis, Jacqueline Dark, Winston Hillyer, Le Gateau Chocolat, Meow Meow, Richard Piper & Dimity Shepherd
Malthouse Theatre 2017
TIMESHARE
Malthouse Theatre | 2015
Carl runs Paradise, a rundown all-inclusive resort, where Sandy and her daughter Kristy are nearing the end of their stay. While Kristy and her mum wait for the arrival of her brother Gary, she’s fallen for resort worker Juan Fernando, who seems more keen on practicing a traditional turtle dance with the fiery Maria, the other member of his 'entertainment squad'.
A Play with songs by Lally Katz.
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Writer: Lally Katz
Director: Oliver Butler
Composer & Musical Director: Jethro Woodward
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Set Designer, Costume Designer: Dale Ferguson
Movement: Bec ReidBesen Family Artist: Lucy O'Brien
Cast: Marg Downey, Fayssal Bazzi, Brigid Gallacher, Bert LaBonté
MORE MUSIC →
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PAUL CAPSIS & THE FITZROY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Memo Hall | Sydney Festival | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019
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APOCALYPSE MEOW: CRISIS IS BORN
Malthouse Theatre Melbourne 2019
Brooklyn Academy of Music 2019 (BAM Next Wave Festival)Guitar, Drums & Percussion
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MEOW MEOW: SOUVENIR
Theatre Royal Hobart, Festival of Voices 2016
Theatre Royal Brighton, Brighton Festival 2017
Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide 2017Guitar & Siound design
Photo credits: Andrea Lauer, Claudio Raschella
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THE ROOSTER PROJECT
ANGUS CERINI | KELLY RYALL | JETHRO WOODWARD
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TURBULENCE
CHAMBERMADE | 2013
Conflict as an act of intimacyComposed by Juliana Hodkinson (Germany)
Libretto by Cynthia Troup
Directed by David Young
Sound design by Jethro Woodward
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THE DEB
ATYP
Writer: Hannah Reilly
Songs by: Megan Washington
Music Producer & Orchestration: Jethro Woodward
ALBUMS →
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Songs From a Little Mermaid
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Always Coming Down
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Another Lament
IDA DUELUND
Performed by Ida Duelund (double bass, voice) & Jethro Woodward (sound design).
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Winterise
IDA DUELUND
Performed by Ida Duelund (double bass, voice) & Jethro Woodward (sound design).
Arranged: Ida Duelund, Jethro Woodward after Franz Schubert
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Lovebirds
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Golden Boy
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Closing Time at Yah Yah's
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The Sentimentalist
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Strip for Cash
