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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

The Picture of Dorian Gray’s Kip Williams steps down as Sydney Theatre Company artistic director

Kip Williams.
Outgoing Sydney Theatre Company artistic director Kip Williams has said his 13 years with the company had been ‘the honour of a lifetime’. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

The Sydney Theatre Company artistic director, Kip Williams, who steered the theatre to new heights with the global success of his one-woman production the Picture of Dorian Gray, has announced he is stepping down after 13 years with the company.

Williams was the youngest artistic director of the STC when he was appointed at the age of 30 in 2016. He will finish his tenure at the end of 2024 after eight years, in anticipation that The Picture of Dorian Gray will head to Broadway next year. In its recent run in London’s West End, Succession star Sarah Snook played all 26 roles to huge acclaim. The role was first performed by Eryn Jean Norvill in multiple sell-out runs across Australia.

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