May Hollinworth (1 May 1895 – 19 November 1968) was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. The daughter of a theatrical producer, she was introduced to the theatre at a young age. She graduated with a science degree, and worked in the chemistry department of the University of Sydney, before being appointed as director of the Sydney University Dramatic Society, a post she held from 1929 until 1943
She founded her own company the Metropolitan Theatre, which she directed from 1944 to 1950 in which she presented a range of dramatic works, from Shakespeare and other classics, to contemporary plays from Australia and around the world. She premiered several Australian plays. She retired from the Metropolitan Theatre in 1950 due to illness, but was later invited to direct plays at the Independent Theatre and the Elizabethan Theatre in Sydney. She had a reputation as a superb producer, known for her highly effective use of lighting, and her abilities to arrange actors on stage to convey dramatic meaning visually, to overcome the challenges of large and small stages with minimal facilities, and to select and nurture a cast. Many actors who became notable in Australia and other countries played under her direction at the start of their careers.
MayHollinworth (1 May 1895 – 19 November 1968) was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan...
Hollinworth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: MayHollinworth (1895–1968), Australian theatre producer and director Richard Hollinworth...
Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (d. 1988) 1895 – MayHollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (d. 1968) 1895 – Nikolai...
Richard Hollinworth (also Hollingworth) (1607–1656) was an English clergyman of presbyterian views, an influential figure in North-West England in the...
American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927) 1968 – MayHollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (b. 1895) 1970 – Lewis Sargent...
New South Wales to Walter Lucas and Marion Gibson. She trained with MayHollinworth at her Metropolitan Theatre. She moved to London in the early 1950s...
Sydney in 1938, and joined the dramatic society under the engagement of MayHollinworth. Barbour began acting while in college, and whilst attending auditions...
active member of the Sydney University Dramatic Society under director MayHollinworth. While with SUDS he was spotted by the director of drama for the Australian...
musicologist Tom Gleeson – comedian, radio and television presenter MayHollinworth – theatre producer and director Yvonne Kenny – soprano Chas Licciardello...
of becoming a commercial artist or a singer, she began acting with MayHollinworth's Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney after graduation. Soon, her "distinctively...
in Australia to star in Eureka Stockade. The play was performed at MayHollinworth's Metropolitan Theatre in 1948, starring John Bushelle, Lynne Murphy...
a funeral sermon on Richard Hollinworth, and received the thanks of the Manchester classis. He died at Eccleston on 27 May 1660, and was buried in his...
22 (5): 211–216. doi:10.1097/00152192-199509000-00007. PMID 7550776. Hollinworth H.; Collier M. (2000). "Nurses' views about pain and trauma at dressing...
1879 in Warialda, New South Wales, Australia, as the second of George Hollinworth Gordon's seven daughters. She received her education from a governess...
colleague Timothy Taylor entered into sustained controversy with Richard Hollinworth, and Eaton later attacked the theology of both the antitrinitarian John...
Ministers of the Province of London, &c., 1648, 4to. Along with Richard Hollinworth, he acted as moderator of the Lancashire synod, and in the affairs of...
of Richard Baxter's Worcestershire agreement. On the death of Richard Hollinworth, Newcome was elected (5 December 1656) one of the preachers at the collegiate...
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