Adrienne Ferguson

After completing an honours degree in Drama from York University, Toronto, Canada, and a second degree in Arts in Education, Adrienne worked as a freelance actor, director, acting coach and teacher in Canada, Singapore and Japan, before finally settling in Vienna.

Directing credits in Vienna include: Andrew Bovells’ Speaking in Tongues (dietheatre Konzerthaus), and Patrick Marber’s Closer (Ensemble Theatre), both for Vienna Theatre Project; Top Girls, Spring Awakening the Musical, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Vienna’s English Theatre, Youth Ensemble; Virtual Heroes, for Vienna’s English Theatre School Tours; The Nina Variations and My First Time at the 1^st Film Academy; and Neil Labute’s bash (Theatre Brett) for the E3 Ensemble. Most recently she directed the one woman show Bad Dates for Vienna’s English Theatre. This spring she will be working on the new VET Youth Ensemble musical production, “Blood Brothers“.

As Artistic Director of Showtime, Vienna’s English Theatre’s School of Performing Arts, Adrienne has adapted and directed a variety of musical productions for an ensemble of 20-50 children onstage at Vienna’s English Theatre including: The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, We Will Rock You, Grease, West Side Story, Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and most recently, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Adrienne is a member of the International School Theatre Association where she works as an ensemble leader creating short performance pieces with groups of international theatre students; a job that has taken her to Lisbon, Dusseldorf, Istanbul, Dresden, Rome and Copenhagen.

Some favourite stage roles are The Angel Americana in Angels in America, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Lady Jane in Richard III, Victoria in A Moment on the Lips, Sylvia, the dog in Sylvia, Teresa in How the Other Half Loves, and Susannah in Black Pearl Sings! at Vienna’s English Theatre. Her latest film credit is The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich starring Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Adrienne is thrilled to be directing such a challenging and provocative play as Venus in Fur.