Biography
Simon Stone is a Swiss-born Australian actor, director and writer who works in film and theatre.
Known For
Complete Filmography
ITA Live Encore: Ibsen House
2024
Director, Writer
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one...
Mefistofele
2023
Director
Simon Stone's take on Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, opening the 2023/2024 season at the Opera di Roma.
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
2023
Director, Writer
After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past...
Salzburg Festival 2023: The Greek Passion
2023
Director
Bohuslav Martinů's Greek Passion, which outlines a serious, very topical problem today, which is the position of refugees in a foreign, often hostile ...
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
2022
Director
Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
2022
Director
On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an ...
"La Traviata" aus der Wiener Staatsoper
2021
Director
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
2021
Director
The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Finland is the setting but the protagonists ...
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2021
2021
Stage Director
The Dig
2021
Director
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the ec...
Medea
2020
Writer, Director
The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story. Medea is ca...
Korngold: Die tote Stadt
2019
Director
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed by Simon Stone. Kirill Petrenko is conducting Jon...
La Traviata - Paris
2019
Director
For his opera Garnier stage-directing debut, Simon Stone creates a sensational La Traviata, 2.0! Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim triumph as Violett...
Drei Schwestern
2019
Director
National Theatre Live: Yerma
2017
Director, Adaptation
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpi...
The Daughter
2015
Director, Screenplay
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with h...
The Turning
2013
Director
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winni...
Being Venice
2013
as Lenny
Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. The aggravation of her ex-h...
The Eye of the Storm
2011
as Peter
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir B...
Blame
2010
as Nick
A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of ...
Nice Shootin' Cowboy
2008
as Cormac
An Australian contemporary Western film.
Jindabyne
2006
as Billy the Kid
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Kokoda
2006
as Max Scholt
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
The Woman in Cabin 10
N/A
Director, Screenplay
A journalist witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard a luxury yacht at night—only to be told that it didn’t happen as all the passengers and crew...
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
N/A
Director, Writer
Anna, a young mother, escapes her cold and unfaithful husband, Ned, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. Ned cha...