​BIOGRAPHY

Phillip Filo started his professional career in 1984 with his first television commercial for Toyworld at the age of seven. The rest of his childhood and teenage years were spent fronting many local and international television advertising campaigns for a catalogue of brands including Colgate, Arnott’s, Mattel, Cottees and Coca-Cola.

Immediately after finishing high school, Phillip was offered his first full time performing job as a Singer/Dancer at Australia's Wonderland. For the ten years that followed, Phillip had the good fortune to continue working as a full-time performer on a variety of projects. Some highlights include playing 'Henry' in the Reef Hotel Casino's "Firefly"; Singer/Dancer in the Norwegian Star's "Starcast"; ‘Doody’ in two separate national tours of "Grease"; and touring Australia with Sir Tim Rice, INXS and Anthony Warlow as a featured singer as well as choreographer in "Tim Rice's Musical Spectacular".

In 2004, Phillip returned to his roots in theme park entertainment, securing the role of 'Wolfie' in Universal Studios Japan's "Monsters Live." Immersed in the world of theme park creativity, he felt a growing passion to transition into behind-the-scenes work. By 2005, he had moved into a full-time role as Musical Director on USJ's creative team, later advancing to Associate Director and eventually Show Director. Notable projects during his tenure at USJ include: the 2007 and 2008 "Universal Studios Japan Halloween Parade" - Director/Choreographer; "Santa's Toy Party" 2008 - Director/Choreographer; the 2009 “Magical Starlight Parade” - Head Choreographer; "Hello Kitty's Hollywood Adventure" - Musical Director/Choreographer; "Sesame St Dancing Dreams" - Musical Director/Choreographer and "Wicked" - Resident Musical Director.

In 2010 after a fantastic six year run, Phillip decided to return to his beloved native Sydney. Since returning to Australia, he has continued to work as both a Musical Director and Choreographer with a client list that now includes McDonald’s Australia, Commonwealth Bank, The XXXX Angels, Sydney Carols In The Domain, The Think Brick Awards, Luminous Events Asia, Zeal Experiential International and The Australian Girls Choir. In this time, Phillip has also been honoured to be an invited member of Grayboy Entertainment's creative team to musically direct and produce a long list of new shows for P&O Australia which include "Please Don't Stop The Music", "DISconnected", "The Very Last Night Show", "Twice Upon A Time", "SEVEN", "Rock Anthems of the Ages”, “X-Centric”, "Musicology" and the recently premiered "O N E". Currently, Phillip has seven shows running on all ships across the P&O fleet.