Grant Brennan
Technical Director, Director, Sound & Lighting
Grant Brennan is a Hills based technical director, performer and aspiring director. He holds his Certificate III in Live Production and Technical Services and in 2025 will complete his Bachelor of Media and Communications, where he majored in Screen Practice and Production whilst also undertaking classes in Performance, Arts and Entertainment Industries and English Literature. He has attended NIDA through their NIDA Open program, completing courses in directing.
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Grant’s passion for performing arts and theatre started in high school in productions of Starlight Express, Strictly Ballroom, Urinetown and Journeys End and has continued to follow that passion into his adult life, becoming heavily involved in various local community and student theatre societies in The Hills Shire and North Sydney areas, however his current primary residence is with the Macquarie University sister societies MacMS and DRAMAC in the Lighthouse Theatre.
As a performer, Grant has performed in a wide variety of roles in both plays and musicals, some notable roles including Maurice in Lord of the Flies (DRAMAC, 2021), Fritz in Parfumerie (DRAMAC, 2021), Polonius in Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead (DRAMAC, 2022), Brendan in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (DRAMAC, 2024). Grant has also heavily been involved in the production side at the Lighthouse, serving as Technical Director for various productions including 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (MacMS, 2023), The Trail to Oregon (MacMS, 2023) and Freaky Friday (MacMS, 2023), Be More Chill (MacMS, 2025), The Addams Family (MacMS, 2025), Theatre is Dead (DRAMAC, 2022), Holka Polka (DRAMAC, 2022) and Coffee Cups and The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (DRAMAC, 2023). Outside the Lighthouse, Grant has played Corporal Howard in Castle Hill Players A Few Good Men (2023) Audrey IIr for Penrith Musical Society’s Little Shop of Horrors (2023), Wayne Burns in Strictly Ballroom (2024) and Frederic in Hunchback of Notre Dame (2025) for Hills Musical Theatre Company.
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Grant’s pride and focus of his creative and professional development is in his directing work. Grant’s directing debut was with DRAMAC doing Neil Simon’s Rumours in 2022, which he also starred in as Officer Casey. He also directed Shakespeare’s The Tempest for DRAMAC in 2023. In 2024 he made his musical directorial debut with MacMS doing Frankenstein: A New Musical. He has Assistant Director for Castle Hill Player’s production of An Inspector Calls in 2024 and made his directorial debut for the group with Rehearsal for Murder in 2025.