Catherine Campbell

Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia
Catherine is an actor, singer, director and educator.

Catherine is a Teaching Academic at UniSA in Performing Arts, where she Coordinates and teaches Cabaret: Context & Practice, World Music Theatre, Music Performance and Live Performance Production. UniSA offers one of only four non-auditioned experiential performing arts courses in Australia and Catherine is passionate about ensuring access to Performing Arts practice. She has also taught at University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre Course and Classical Voice Course in Acting and Stagecraft, as well as at Federation University’s Ballarat Performing Arts Academy as Director, 3rd year Cabarets. Catherine is the Vocal Lead Teacher for the Adelaide Festival Centre: OnStage children & youth holiday program and Community program for young people in care. Catherine has also taught and directed for Tutti Arts in music theatre and cabaret.

Music Theatre includes A New Brain - Mimi Schwinn (Davine Productions) The Front - Matron, A Wild Party with Andrew Lippa, Take Flight with Richard Maltby and David Shire, Songs For A New World (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Sweeney Todd (State Opera of SA),The Mikado (Adelaide Festival Centre), Les Miserables - Mme Thenadier (MS/Normie Rowe), Northern Lights/Southern Cross - Claire (Tutti/Interact USA), Conversations, P’Opera and Shouting Fence (Various People) and The Witch in the SA Premiere of Into The Woods. Cabaret includes: solo show My Blue Angel (written and directed by Frank Ford) at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Don’t Tell Mama (New York), and national tours in Australia; co-creator of comedy trio Gentlemen Prefer Curves (Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival) and Berlin Cabaret – Greta (Adelaide Fringe, Weimar Room residency, Cabaret Festival). Acting credits include Mrs Linde in Doll’s House and A Streetcar Named Desire (Bakehouse Theatre), The Most Massive Woman Wins and Bruised Hearts Travelling Freak Show (Chop’t Logic) Sisters (CPA) and Equus (State Theatre Company).

Catherine is thrilled to celebrate over 25 years with the Chorus of State Opera of SA, and has recently performed the roles of Mrs Mullins in Carousel, Praskovia in Graham Murphy’s The Merry Widow and Cora The Boots in BOOJUM! as well as Ensemble in two productions of Sweeney Todd (dirs. Stuart Maunder, Gale Edwards), Voss and many others including the Australian Premieres of Dead Man Walking and Parsifal. For the Adelaide Festival she has appeared in Messa da Requiem (Zurich Ballet), Golden Cockerel (dir. Barrie Kosky), Requiem (dir. Romeo Castellucci), SAUL (dir. Barrie Kosky), Hamlet (dir. Neil Armfield) and Flamma Flamma (dir Nigel Jamieson). Shows with local companies include Iolanthe (Fairy Queen) & HMS Pinafore (Hebe) for G&S Society of SA, and COLE for Therry. Other performances include two international tours with Adelaide Chamber Singers, numerous corporate functions and various Country Arts SA Tours. She holds 4 Fringe awards, including the Advertiser Award for Excellence for Gentlemen Prefer Curves. Catherine sang backing vocals for Split Enz with the ASO and has never quite gotten over it.

Directing: The Hipster (development) Fringe 2020; Why Muriel Matters, Adelaide Cabaret Fringe; Dido & Aeneas, 3 Graces, Adelaide Fringe (Winner, Best Music); Assistant Director, Elixir Of Love, State Opera of SA; Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, SOL Summer Series; Echoes of the Underworld, Saving Abigial and RAW, UniSA Performing Arts.
Training: AC Arts (Acting); Hons Drama (Music Theatre), Flinders Uni; Cabaret at Yale (USA).
Catherine has two children and lives in Adelaide with her partner Paul.