Simon Stone (1984) is an Australian actor and theatre director. He is one of the greatest young talents of the Australian theatre. Stone was born in Basel. From there he moved with his parents and his two sisters to Cambridge in the UK and finally to Australia. There he studied at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne. In 2007 he founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project, where he adapted and directed Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen, Chekov’s Platonov and 3xSisters, The Suicideby Erdman and The Only Child, a new version of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf. In 2009, he directed Arbuzov’s The Promise for Belvoir. In 2010 he wrote and directed a version of Seneca’s Thyestes for the Hayloft Project and the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, This production won Green Room Awards for Best Adaptation, Best Production and Best Ensemble. In 2011 Stone became the Resident Director at Belvoir. In his first year he wrote and directed a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, which won the Helpmann Award for Best Play. In that same year he also adapted and directed Bertolt Brecht’s Baal for the Sydney Theatre Company. In 2012. Stone directed (and rewrote) Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neil, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and a stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s film Face to Face. For The Wild Duck, Stone won Best Director and Best Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Stone still regularly acts on stage and in movies, his credits including appearances in Jindabyne, Kokoda and recently in Eye of the Storm.