Teachers

Paulo Castro is an acclaimed Portuguese theatre director and filmmaker living in Adelaide. He has directed plays for the national theatre in Portugal, and had his works performed throughout the world, including France, Spain, Iceland, Mozambique, Belgium, Austria and Morocco. Arriving in Australia in the early 2000s, Paulo formed his own theatre company with Jo Stone (Stone/Castro). In 2014 and 2016, Paulo directed the productions Blackout and The Country for the Adelaide Festival. Paulo has also directed and performed in productions for OzAsia, Melbourne International Festival and No Strings Attached. As well as writing, directing, and performing in theatre, Paulo has worked as an actor in many films and television series (including the recent Aftertaste for the ABC). For the last decade Paulo has taught performing arts at Adelaide College of the Arts.

Paulo aims to build confidence in performers through deep exploration and activation of their improvisation and movement skills. Participants will explore their intuitions around acting and characterization. Paulo will also guide the class through self-devised work and creative performance.

Terence Crawford is an actor, author, playwright, director, and acting teacher.He began his theatre career in Newcastle, NSW, in 1980. Since graduating from NIDA, Terence has worked extensively in theatre, film and television, including many productions for the State Theatre Company of SA. His most recent productions are 1984, and Girl from the North Country, and recent screen credits include tv shows Stateless and Clickbait, and the film, Escape from Pretoria.

As a playwright, Terence has had work produced by Griffin Theatre Company, N Save ew Theatre, Theatre of Image and Sydney Theatre Company, in addition to work produced for radio and television.

Terence is among Australia’s most experienced and respected acting teachers. In 2005, Currency Press published Terence’s first book on acting, Trade Secrets, and in 2011 published his second, Dimensions of Acting: An Australian Approach.
Terence is the principal of Crawford Studio, and is an Adjunct Professor of Adelaide University’s J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. He achieved a Masters with a dissertation of Chekhov, and a PhD with an ethnography of theatre practices.

Terence will deliver a 4 hour workshop in April on the foundations of acting in the realist tradition. Participants will explore links between acting and life-as-lived, and the artistic ‘nirvana’ on unselfconsciousness. 

Founded in 2007 and based in Adelaide, Slingsby Theatre Company creates emotionally challenging and engaging storytelling for family audiences and young people. Slingsby is a leading international theatre company and has toured to more than 100 venues across 12 countries. An old world, timeless aesthetic is embedded in each show, transporting audiences to a time and place that is as familiar as it is new. Slingsby believes in the power of emotional storytelling and creating art that builds empathy and social cohesion.

The wonderfully talented Slingsby artists will deliver specialised classes within their inclusive and inspiring theatre hall. Slingsby encourages togetherness, inviting participants to ‘Journey in Wonder’ with them, aiming to promote resilience and empathy through art and community.

Robert Lewis is a director, voice and movement teacher, and playwright who trained with Cicely Berry, Frankie Armstrong, Rowena Balos, Mike Alfreds, OzFrank Theatre, as well as Butoh with Yoshito Ohno in Japan, including many others, and is a Nobbs Suzuki Praxis member. Robert has published theatre performances and training films through Contemporary Arts Media (Artfilms) and has also published various articles on the subject of voice and movement integration. He is a lecturer in Performing Arts at Charles Sturt University, and previously lectured in Voice and Movement in at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Acting at Collarts, and was a voice tutor at St Martins Youth Theatre and VCA. He also teaches into the NIDA Open and Studio programs in Melbourne.

He has studied Performing Arts (Theatre) at UTAS, Performing Arts (Honours) at Monash University, Secondary Education at RMIT, and a Gradate Diploma of Dramatic Art (Voice Studies) at NIDA.

His PhD focused on integrative practices and intercultural performance training aesthetics.  Robert also completed a Certification in Integrative Studies at the One Voice Centre, New York.

Robert is also the founder and director of the AusAct: Australasian Actor Training Conference, a conference and training event that brings together acting teachers from Australasia and beyond to discuss, showcase, interrogate, and celebrate original actor training practices.

Robert recently published ‘The Third Space: Body, Voice, and Imagination’ through Routledge, whew he outlines original integrative practice systems (voice and movement integration). The approach that is outlined in the book is a way of working that unlocks the imagination as well as connecting performers to self, space, and imagination, through voice and body. It conditions, controls, and engages performers by integrating various voice and movement practices.

Robert aims to build confidence and skills through the deep exploration, interrogation and activation of their voices, bodies and imagination by increasing awareness of self and space. His work develops a deeper connection between spaces within the body and the environment by connecting sound, imagination, and movement

Dr Corinna Di Niro is an international performer, director, teacher, author and researcher of Commedia dell’Arte. She is considered Australia’s leading expert in Commedia. Corinna trained in Commedia in Italy in 2004 and holds a PhD in Commedia for a contemporary Australian context. She has published widely in the field and is an invited lecturer at NIDA. Corinna is interested in making Commedia accessible to new and diverse audiences where Commedia is not part of the day-to-day culture. Her vision is for Commedia to return to its seminal position as the key training tool for performance studies in tertiary institutions across Australia.

With a passion for dance, theatre, puppetry, and musicals, Carol’s 37 years of professional practice includes dance performance, teaching, choreographing, directing, facilitating and management and has taken her to many parts of the globe. Carol danced in professional contemporary dance companies across Australia before heading to London for seven years to work as a dancer, teacher, choreographer in the UK and Europe. Returning to Australia, she became Assistant Director for Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide with AD Garry Stewart, creating significant contemporary dance mainstage work which toured extensively across Europe, UK, Asia and the USA.
Carol is currently an independent freelance Dance/Theatre artist working across multiple arts platforms and education environments. Her work with theatre companies began with movement direction for State Theatre Company SA; The Glass Menagerie and The Three Sisters followed by choreographing the Helpmann award winning musicals “Pinocchio” and “Rumpelstiltskin” both Windmill Theatre Company/ State Theatre Company SA productions which toured to NYC 2014 and London 2018 respectively. Along with lecturing in Dance and Movement Studies at Flinders University Drama Centre and Adelaide College of the Arts Drama department, Carol is dedicated to creating access to the arts for all and is a trained Audio Describer describing live arts performances and events for blind and partially sighted
people.

Cinzia Schincariol is a dance artist working across live performance, film making and healing. Born in Italy, she migrated to Ireland and then to Australia, Cinzia places the body at the center of her enquiry examining place, identity and ecological grief. Instant composition is her way to engage with theme of belonging in relation to self, others and land. As a dancer, choreographer and film maker, her work is site specific and imagines a dance that already exists, intersecting and overlapping space, time, flesh and bones. Her sensitivity and sense of wonder and playfulness brings her to work with people of all walks of life, including with the very young ones and interested in accessibility. Her films have been shown in galleries and festivals in Adelaide and Europe. As performer she worked in Australia, Europe and in South America. In Adelaide she has worked extensively with Restless Dance Theatre and CompanyAT. The last three years, she was based in Berlin, studying environmental somatics, somatic movement practices and as an artist connecting with the independent scene.

Hew is a graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre . Hew received a Neil Curnow Award to study in the Pochinko Clowning Method at The Clown Farm in Ontario, Canada.

Hew has developed several solo shows for his comedic characters including: Giovanni (New York Clown Theatre Festival); Odyssey Schmodyssey (Sangenuay Arts Festival, Quebec);  Rudi’s The Rinse Cycle (Adelaide Cabaret Festival); The Riddalin Brothers with Callan Fleming and his semiautobiographical A Not So Trivial Pursuit (Adelaide Fringe) which won the Frank Ford Award from Adelaide Fringe in 2023. In 2022 Hew premiered his epic cycling show Symphonie De La Bicyclette at Merrigong Theatre in Wollongong during the UCI World Cycling Championships. He has directed the shows Egg with Erin Fowler, Chameleon with Britt Plummer and Frank Theatre and Dead Gorgeous with Madness of Two.

Other credits include: Sticks Stones Broken Bones (Bunk Puppets); The Weill File (Adelaide Cabaret Festival); The Swell Mob (Flabberghast Theatre/Adelaide Cabaret Festival); Me and My Shadow (Patch Theatre Company); Boo (Windmill Theatre Company); Superheroes (Stone/Castro); Blister by Sarah Peters (Holden Street Theatres); and If you can learn to fake authenticity you have it made by Rebecca Meston (Feltspace).

Human movement has been the fulcrum of Eduardo’s interests for over 20 years.
Sports scientist by trade, his desire to keep learning brought him to explore physical training and therapy, dance and performance, wrestling and boxing. He has a genuine curiosity in how bodies meet themselves, others and the situations they are in. He loves finding ways of bridging worlds that are often kept apart creating inclusive and playful grounds where we can share and co-create. He has worked in a variety of settings with a broad range of people both in Italy and Australia and runs a number of workshops in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
Playfulness and creativity in relation to communication and athletic development have become of great interest to him. It is through cultivating this interest that he has decided to share, through physical practices, how to embrace with confidence the ever changing nature of human movement, life and performance.