performer - JOHN GADEN (AUS)


John has enjoyed an illustrious career in theatre that has spanned over 45 years. For Belvoir, he has appeared in The Wild Duck, Stuff Happens, The Fever, Waiting for Godot, The Unexpected Man, Cloudstreet, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Scandals and Belvoir’s first production, Signal Driver. Among John’s other extensive theatre credits are The Trial…



John has enjoyed an illustrious career in theatre that has spanned over 45 years. For Belvoir, he has appeared in The Wild Duck, Stuff Happens, The Fever, Waiting for Godot, The Unexpected Man, Cloudstreet, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Scandals and Belvoir’s first production, Signal Driver.

Among John’s other extensive theatre credits are The Trial (Malthouse Theatre/ThinIce/Sydney Theatre Company); The Cherry Orchard, Democracy, The Miser, Copenhagen, Victory, The White Devil, Love for Love, As You Like It, Arcadia, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Saint Joan, Death and the Maiden, The Secret Rapture (Sydney Theatre Company); The Lost Echo, The Season at Sarsaparilla, The War of the Roses (STC Actors’ Company); Pericles, Henry IV (Bell Shakespeare Company); King Lear, A Hard God, Dreams in an Empty City, The Real Thing, Wild Honey, Shepherd on the Rocks, The Winter’s Tale, Hedda Gabler, Ring Around the Moon (State Theatre Company of South Australia); and Hysteria, Uncle Vanya, Racing Demon, Present Laughter, The Tempest (Melbourne Theatre Company).

His operatic and musical credits include Ariadne Auf Naxos (The Australian Opera) and The Wizard of Oz (Victoria State Opera).

John’s film credits include The Eye of the Storm, Right Here Right Now, Willful, A Little Bit of Soul, Thank God He Meet Lizzie, Children of the Revolution, On Our Selection, Muriel’s Wedding and Caddie.

His TV credits include Rake, Tracey McBean, Halifax f.p., Over the Hill and Mother and Son.