From 1999 to 2001 Wayne was Creative Director of Back Row
Productions and Clear Channel Entertainment, Theatrical Division.
From 1990 to 1999 he was director/executive Producer of Sydney
Theatre Company where in 1995, he produced the original Tap
Dogs in a especially created nightclub overlooking Sydney
Harbour. He then enabled the show to tour nationally and
internationally through a close collaboration with Back Row.
While at STC Wayne directed The Normal Heart, Burn This,
A little Light Music, Six Degrees of Separation, Into The
Woods, Much Ado About Nothing, The Raise and fall of Little
Voice, The gift of the Gorgon, Falsettos, Two Weeks with
the Queen, Dead White Males, Heretic, Merrily We Roll Along,
Three Tall Women, Medea, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
and Amy’s view. He also directed the London premier
of Michaels Gow’s On Top of the World, and the award-winning
South African Production of Two Weeks with the Queen, with
a combined Australian/South African cast.
While at CCE he was responsible for the creative development
of Gumboots and was part of the producing team that opened
Fosse in Hamburg. He also directed the hugely successful
Montreal production of Mom’s the Word at the 2001 Just
for Laughs Festival.
Most recently he co-wrote and directed the musical, Lush
and directed a new version of John Breen’s rugby play,
Alone it Stands, both of which played at Sydney Opera House.
He has directed the three UK touring versions of Mum’s
the Word and in 2002 co-produced Too Far to Walk starring
Prunella Scales, at the Kings Head Theatre.
