What do a quiet Brisbane lad, Oxford University, and an interesting tendency to dress up and sing G&S tunes have in common?

After 30 years on, around, behind and under the stage in Brisbane, Rodney Wolff knows theatre inside out.

Rodney was stage director and music director of Lickety-Split's inaugural production, The Full Monty. He has directed several shows for the Ignatians Inc, Ocean Theatre Company, Oxford Univ G&S Society, Arts Theatre, such as Oliver!, The Full Monty (the Queensland premiere), The Mikado, There Goes the Bride, Habeas Corpus, Iolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance.

Rodney has been musical director of those shows above which are musical, as well as Fiddler on the Roof, Singin' in the Rain (the Queensland premiere), Company, The Boy Friend, Brigadoon and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

He has worked at such venues as the Oxford Playhouse, the Oxford Holywell Music Rooms (Britain's oldest purpose-built music venue), the Cremorne Theatre, the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre, the Schonell Theatre and Arts Theatre.

Rodney is a professor in the Faculty of Business at the Queensland University of Technology, specialising in statistics and econometrics. He has brought his business and managerial skills to theatre administration, most recently having served as treasurer and as administrative director (in honorary capacities) of Arts Theatre, 2004-6. Through his financial and managerial skills, Arts turned around from a decade of loss-making performance to operating at a surplus.

He has been trained in pianoforte, voice, and ballroom and Latin dancing.