WILLIAM ZAPPA Thenardier

TOURED: Sydney, Melbourne

BIOGRAPHY:

In 1990, William was awarded the MO Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Thenardier in Les Miserables. He is delighted to be reviving the role for this 10th Anniversary Production. After training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, William worked in England as an actor and theatre director before coming to Australia to take up the post of lecturer in Movement at the Drama School of the Victorian College of the Arts in 1976. He has appeared with all of the major theatre companies in Australia and played leading roles in Skylight, Les Parents Terribles,Saint Joan, The Threepenny Opera, The Gift of the Gorgon, Siren, The Country Wife and The Seagull for the Sydney Theatre Company. Other credits include Gossamer (Ensemble), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Translations (Melbourne Theatre Company), Scenes from an Execution, The Frogs, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Belvoir St Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Much Ado About Nothing, Benefactors, Peter Pan, Richard III (State Theatre Co. SA), Don Juan (Anthill and Adelaide Festival), Fool for Love, No Man's Land, Antony and Cleopatra, Dutchman, A Bit of Rough, Bertolt Brecht Leaves LA, Comedians, Long Day's Journey into Night (Playbox), Witolt Gombrovitch in Buenos Aires (La Mama). Commercial theatre credits include Scrooge The Musical (Princess Theatre Productions), 42nd Street (Helen Montagu Productions), The King and I (Gordon Frost/AFCT), and Les Miserables (Cameron Mackintosh). William has appeared in the films Head On, Amy, Diana and Me, The Phantom, The Zone, My Entire Life, Crush, Quigley Down Under, Celia and Mad Max II. His many television appearances include roles in Big Sky, Water Rats, Correlli, GP, Rafferty's Rules, Mission Impossible, House Rules, The Shiralee and Women of the Sun, for which he received the Penguin Award for Best Actor. He has directed productions for Playbox, VCA and West Theatre Company and has worked as a fight arranger for STC, MTC, The Australian Opera, VSO, STCSA, VCA and NIDA and runs workshops on Movement for Actors.

RECENT PROJECTS:

Bill has appeared in several productions for the Sydney Theatre Company - Corporate Vibes and A Month In The Country. He also appeared in the Sydney and New York productions of The White Devil. In 2001 he appeared with the Bell Shakespeare Company as Marc Antony in Antony and Cleopatra. In 2002, he takes on a number of projects, among them, productions for the STC and Bell Shakespeare.

LINKS:

Sydney Theatre Company
Bell Shakespeare Company

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