John Senczuk, a NIDA graduate, stage director/designer and theatre polymath whose career, nationally and internationally, spans over thirty years in music theatre, dance and drama. He worked concurrently as an academic, and spent fifteen years at the University of Wollongong creating and teaching courses in scenography and dramaturgy before positions at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, and WAAPA. As writer, John’s list of musicals includes: Time, Gentlemen!, Eureka, A Coward in Vegas, Two Old Queens and Rose and Rodeo. His Currency House Platform Paper 42: “The Time is Ripe for the Great Australian Musical” was launched in February 2015. Scene Stealers: Australian Scenography 1788-2018 will be published in 2018; and, Australian Music Theatre schedule for publication 2019.