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Duncan Driver (he/him)

Duncan is an academic and educator with less time than he’d like to pursue his love of theatre. Along with Jarrad West and Duncan Ley, Duncan Driver was a founding artistic director of Everyman Theatre.

He directed the company’s inaugural production of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (2008) and its subsequent productions of In Cold Light (2009), Richard III (2010), The Ides of March (2011), God (2012) and The Burning (2014).

For Everyman, Duncan has also acted in Latin! or Tobacco and Boys (2009), Richard III (2010), The Laramie Project (2010), Breaker Morant (2012), Home at the End (2013), The Inheritance (2024) and the second staging of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) in 2013. 

Other acting credits include ‘First Voice’ in Under Milk Wood (Canberra Rep, 2013), ‘Demetrius’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Centrepiece, 2013) and ‘Reverend Hale’ in The Crucible (Canberra Rep, 2015). 

Duncan was also a founding artistic director of Lakespeare and Co., in whose popular outdoor productions he played ‘Benedick’ in Much Ado About Nothing (2018), ‘Orsino’ in Twelfth Night (2019) and ‘Clarence’ in Richard III (2020). 

Duncan has twice won the Canberra Area Theatre Award for best actor in a leading role in a play: in 2007, for the role of ‘Richard Sherman’ in The Seven Year Itch and in 2009, for the role of ‘Dominic’ in Latin! or Tobacco and Boys. 

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