In 2010 he directed and co-wrote with Mark Leonard Winter, Thomas Henning and Chris Ryan a version of Seneca"s Thyestes for the The Hayloft Project and Malthouse, Melbourne. Also in 2011 he also directed Robyn Nevin in Lally Katz"s Neighbourhood Watch for Belvoir and adapted and directed Bertolt Brecht"s Baal for the Sydney Company.
This production was remounted in 2008 at Belvoir Street and was described in The Sydney Morning Herald as "a lean, contained, ultimately furious, liberating production that is well-attuned to Wedekind"s poetic rhythms, wit and pubescent discoveries." Other productions Stone adapted and directed for The Hayloft Project include Platonov, 3xSisters, The Suicide and The Only Child, a new version of Henrik Ibsen"s Little Eyolf which won the Sydney Award for Best Independent Production. This production won Green Room Awards for Best Production, Best Adaptation and Best Ensemble. In his first year in the role he wrote and directed The Wild Duck, after Henrik Ibsen, which won the 2011 Helpmann Award for Best Play and was staged in London at the Barbican in 2014.
