The Umbrella Foundation is a registered charity committed to telling stories that matter through the innovative use of music, theatre and other artforms.
Our Key Objectives
Develop new works in the field of musical theatre
Present, produce and tour new musical theatre works
Back new works fitting our vision and values
Help new works to be commercialized including developing deals with producers
Work with industry peak bodies to institute world’s best practice on remuneration, diversity and industrial relations
Driftwood The Musical
Our first production is Driftwood The Musical. We had a sell-out world premiere season in 2022 and a return in 2023.
Please donate to the Umbrella Foundation so this extraordinary and important true story can inspire tens of thousands of people in Australia and worldwide.
Driftwood The Musical tells the incredible story of Karl and Slawa Duldig based on their daughter Eva’s memoir DRIFTWOOD – escape and survival through art (ASP 2017).
This inspirational story of the renowned Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife, Slawa Horowitz-Duldig follows their lives in pre-war Vienna, Slawa’s ingenious invention of the foldable umbrella, and an incredible chain of events after miraculously escaping the Holocaust and rebuilding their careers as artists in Melbourne.
Be inspired by some of the positive reviews and testimonials.
