Producer/Resident Composer

Gus Macmillan

Gus Macmillan is the Company Producer and composer-in-residence for Red Span Dance and has, over the last 18 years, worked internationally as a composer, musician and sound designer. Based in Melbourne, he has recently returned from working in the United Kingdom as composer in residence for Theatre O, writing a score for Delirium, an adaptation of Dostoyevski's Brother's Karamazov, directed by Joseph Alford. Gus spent the 90s performing as a multi-instrumentalist with Blue Grassy Knoll and conceived, co-wrote, and produced live scores to the silent films of Buster Keaton, among others. These shows received five star reviews at the 1999 and 2000 Edinburgh Festival and toured to all five continents for the next 8 years under Gus's management. In 2007 BGK also wrote a score to the silent Chinese film Labourer's Love and toured it to Beijing and Shanghai. He completed a Graduate Diploma in Sound Design at Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, and works with sound and music in a variety of other art forms including film, documentary, circus and puppetry. He has his own recording studio and continues to write, perform, and teach music. Gus also has an Honors Degree in English and a Masters Degree in Australian Studies.