Last Train to Freo Jeremy Sims Director Executive Producer

Jeremy Sims

Director / Executive Producer

Jeremy is a popular and well-known figure in Australian artistic life. He has had a successful and acclaimed career as an actor, working in film (he received an AFI award ‘Best actor’ nomination for Idiot Box), on television (he has several Logie and AFI ‘Best actor’ nominations, winning for aftershocks in 1996) and on stage, where his reputation as one of Australia’s greatest actors has been built playing roles like Cyrano De Bergerac and Hamlet to national acclaim. He regularly directs for Australia’s flagship theatre producer - The Sydney Theatre Company.

He has been Artistic Director of his own Pork Chop Productions since 1995 and has directed and produced acclaimed classical interpretations and original theatrical works all around the country. Recently Jeremy has focused on new Australian works, in collaboration with Reg Cribb, enlisting the Sydney Opera House as a co-production partner. Their production of Last Cab to Darwin won many awards and toured nationally in 2004.

Last Train to Freo is his first feature film as a director/producer. It continues his artistic association with Reg. He is presently in the early stages of production on a feature film adaptation of Last Cab to Darwin.

Jeremy is married to well known film director Samantha Lang (The Well, L’Idole), and they live with their daughter Frederique, in Bondi.