Rodney Dobson
Ensemble
Rodney has a career in musical theatre spanning 30 years, graduating from WAAPA in 1989. Most recently Rodney performed the role of Charlie alongside David Campbell in Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin Musical at Melbourne’s State Theatre. He performed in the original Australian casts of Moonshadow (Mr Mathew), Wicked (Dr Dillamond), The Full Monty (Dave), Rosie (George), Jolson, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Aspects of Love, Return to the Forbidden Planet and Chess.
Rodney’s other theatre credits include the Julie Andrews-directed My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain (Roscoe Dexter), Les Misérables 10th Anniversary tour (Factory Foreman / Coufeyrac) and 25th Anniversary tour (Bishop, Thenardier), Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Company (David), Sweeney Todd in both 2001 and 2006 for Opera Australia (Tobias), Buddy in 1994 and 2000 (The Big Bopper), Twelfth Night (Belvoir), South Pacific and Miss Julie (STC). In July this year Rodney will take on the role of Professor Callahan in Legally Blonde at Riverside Theatres Parramatta in a limited season. He has been an Equity member since 1989.