ABOUT US

Meet the Stage Noise team...

DIANA SIMMONDS

Diana Simmonds is one of Sydney’s best-known and most respected arts critics and commentators. Although it’s not particuarly fashionable Diana lives for the arts - theatre, music, opera, visual arts, books and the artists who make these essential things. She started writing critically and professionally in London, in the dark ages, on Time Out and City Limits magazines; in Australia, since 1985 she has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, The Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. Despite this dubious pedigree she remains ungroovily on the Left of politics. Diana is the author of a number of books of fiction and non-fiction but the elusive bestseller remains elusive. She is a longtime supporter of the Sydney Swans and West Ham FC, that’s stated so that would-be blackmailers can nick off. Diana has been accused of having an unnatural relationship with her PowerBook as the two are rarely parted. This is why she thinks getting involved with Damian and Tim in stagenoise.com is the coolest thing since she acquired a Chillow.

DAMIAN MADDEN

Damian's love of theatre began when he heard a recording of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds as a child. Since then he has gone on to write, produce and act in numerous theatrical productions, films and works of fiction. He graduated from Macquarie University with a Media Honours degree majoring in screenwriting and since then has worked almost solely in the online realm. Damian has worked on and developed such websites as Liveguide.com.au, Citysearch.com.au, ZooWeekly.com.au, Famousmag.com.au, Girlfriend.com.au, DVDBits.com, DVDOrchard.com.au, Gamesmarket.com.au, and r3ach.com. Aside from this fixation with websites Damian runs a media production company, enjoys painting, writes songs and has an unhealthy fixation with American Football, Country Music and Boy Bands.

TIM MADDEN

Tim thinks most modern musicals and plays are too long, weird and feature too many songs for characters the audience doesn’t care about. Other than that he likes them, mostly. A web designer by trade Tim is also a talented composer and has had his work featured in various TV shows, short films and other outlets.

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