2025 Festival Adjudicator Timothy Wynn
Timothy Wynn is the Artistic Director of THAT Production Company. Since 2009, he has directed over 40 productions, including Australian premieres at Studio 188, Old Courthouse, Roundhouse Theatre, and Metro Arts.
He studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and trained at the JUTE Theatre Company’s Director Development Program. Timothy has worked with Backbone Youth Arts, JUTE Theatre Company, Spotlight Theatre, and Fractal Theatre Company. His production of Cosi was nominated for seven Gold Coast Theatre Awards in 2017, winning two. In 2018, he directed Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Baal.
In 2021 and 2023, Timothy was nominated for the Matilda Awards for his direction of Sea Wall and Every Brilliant Thing, respectively. At the 2024 Matilda Awards, he accepted the inaugural Tony Gould Award for THAT Production Company. Recently, he served as the adjudicator for the Beenleigh Drama Festival.
We look forward to his input at the Ipswich Drama Festival.
What is a One Act Play Festival?
Each year, across South East Queensland, there is a flurry of thespian activity as small and large theatre groups select a one-act play, audition and cast the required actors and rehearse intently to create the very best possible production of that play.
Each Festival hosts an average of 15 – 20 plays across intermediate or open sections, with a wide range of awards available to be won. Every Festival chooses an Adjudicator to judge the entries, with the awards session always a highly anticipated event.
Festivals are held as far away as Dalby, south to Beenleigh and north to the Sunshine Coast with the season running from June to September. Some plays are entered into all Festivals, some only to one or two, but regardless of the number all speak of the fun, friendliness and rewards that are gained.
For 69 years now, we have welcomed theatre groups from around the state and country to compete in our One Act Play Festival. On the weekend of 8th, 9th, 10th August 2025, Ipswich Little Theatre will once again host one of the longest-running festivals of its type in Australia (and the Southern Hemisphere – for that matter).
We are proud that our Festival has a reputation of being one of the friendliest and best organised on the South East Queensland Theatre Festival circuit and hope to welcome you as an entrant or patron this year.