Sydney Theatre Company
Recognised as one of the world’s most exciting and original theatre companies, Sydney Theatre Company is at the heart of Australia’s cultural landscape with a history of ground-breaking productions.
STC presents an annual season across its harbourside venues: The Wharf Theatres and Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay and Sydney Opera House, as its resident theatre company.
The company works with artists at the top of their craft to produce a diverse program of internationally acclaimed theatre that reflects Sydney’s distinctive energy and personality, and entertains hundreds of thousands of Sydneysiders and visitors all year round.
The theatre careers of many of Australia's internationally renowned artists have been launched and fostered at STC, including Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Benedict Andrews and Cate Blanchett.
Sydney Theatre Company 2025 Season
Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 Season is your chance to uncover a fantastic collection of plays set to inspire and delight, with stories that take you from the glorious Australian outback to a chilling picnic at Hanging Rock, and the legal battleground of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Artistic Director Mitchell Butel
Mitchell Butel is the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company.
A multi-awarded director, performer, writer and producer, in his three-decade long history with the Company Mitchell has worked with every single artistic director across 18 productions. For Sydney Theatre Company, he has directed Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia? (a co-production with State Theatre Company South Australia), performed in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Arms and the Man, Face to Face, Romeo and Juliet, The Grenade, The Republic of Myopia, Harbour (which opened the Roslyn Packer Theatre), Summer Rain, Holy Day, Mourning Becomes Electra, Tartuffe, Two Weeks with the Queen, Dead White Males, The Café Latte Kid, Summer of the Aliens and Six Degrees of Separation.
Mitchell holds four Helpmann Awards, four Sydney Theatre Awards, two Victorian Green Room Awards and two Adelaide Ruby Awards for his work in Australian theatre and opera over three decades. He has worked in Australia, New York, London, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Over his career, Mitchell has worked on over 150 professional productions incorporating classical repertoire, new Australian work, contemporary international writing, music theatre and opera. He was Artistic Director and Co-CEO of State Theatre Company South Australia (STCSA) between 2019 and 2024.