Executive Producer

SIMON WOODS is the Co-Founder of Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and now consults as an Executive Producer and Actor Trainer.  He is one of Australia's leading instructors in the Suzuki Actor Training Method which he has taught in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and throughout Australia since 1996.

Theatre Direction -

Sub-Con Warrior 2.0 (08),

The Odyssey (QPAC 04),

XLD Youth Festival/The Mayne Inheritance (Artistic Director QADIE/QPAC 03)

Jack and the Beanstalk/Peter and the Wolf (Queensland Orchestra/QPAC 02/03), Confusions (Queensland Theatre Company 02)

The Man Who Sold the World (Brisbane Festival 00 - touring Qld, Vic, SA, 01), Oedipus (Southbank TAFE, 00)

The Oresteia (Creative Development 99)

Visions of Macbeth (Arts Council Touring 98-00)

Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters (Optus Playhouse, Singapore Youth Festival, Townsville Civic Centre 98, 99, 02)

The Cult of Dionysus (Brisbane Festival 96)

The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Version for Stage X Festival 97)

Macbeth (Kyoto 95)

Kantan (NOHO Theatre, Kyoto 94)

The Cult of Dionysus (bilingual version, Kyoto 94)

The Zoo Story (93)

Galileo (93)

Film Direction -

Loaded Dice (SAYFA Award for Production 1993)

The Brisbane Sustainable Home (Documentary 2006)

The Brisbane City Council Craft Fair Featurette (2010)

Numerous Zen Zen Zo DVDs  (2004-)

Teaching -

Simon has been actively practicing and applying the Suzuki Actor Training Method since his initial exposure to Suzuki Tadashi's training and performances in Japan in 1993. Following his participation in the Suzuki Method International Masterclass in Saratoga Springs New York (1993), he studied the director at work at his base in Mito, Japan and in Delphi, Greece.  As well as leading ongoing training with Zen Zen Zo, Simon received First Class Honours in Drama at QUT (1996) and was awarded an APA Research Scholarship in 1997.  He received a Masters of Philosophy in Drama (UQ) in 2006 for research on the application of the Suzuki Method for Western performers.  In 1998 he was a recipient of the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor's Performing Arts Fellowship to continue practical training in Japan then studied the Suzuki Method, Viewpoints and Composition with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in 1998. Simon again attended the International Masterclass with the Suzuki Company of Toga in Japan in 2007.  In addition to training performers at Zen Zen Zo, Simon consulted to the Strength and Conditioning Department of the Brisbane Lions Football Club under Leigh Matthews developing programs in core strength, flexibility and mental skills from 2001-2008.