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Kim Krejus
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Kim is one of Australia's most esteemed acting teachers having taught programs at the VCA, NIDA, Bond University & Central Queensland University to name a few. She also designed a one-year acting program at Bond University.
She began her career as an actor in film receiving an AFI Best Actress nomination for Mouth to Mouth and has starred in numerous plays and television series in Australia. Kim has worked in theatre in the US and the UK and toured the U.S in the Broadway production of Noises Off.
Kim was a student at NIDA, the HB Studio, and Atlantic Theatre School in New York and is a graduate of the Drama Centre, London. She has trained under some of the most highly regarded acting teachers in the world including Yat Malmgren in London, Uta Hagen in New York and more recently, Ivana Chubbuck in Los Angeles.
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Kim is endorsed to teach Ivana Chubbuck's innovative acting technique hailed by Hollywood, here in Australia.
In addition, Kim is an on-set acting coach having worked on films such as Warner Bros' Aquamarine for Twentieth Century Fox. She has a passionate commitment to training actors and the Australian film and television industry.
Kim's Philosophy
'Respect for Acting' is the title of the book penned by renowned acting teacher, Uta Hagen. The notion of respect encapsulates much about what it means to be an actor. When good actors live truthfully within given circumstances, they create believable human behavior for an audience. We identify and lose ourselves in the characters they create unaware of the tremendous talent and skill required to create that illusion. When we listen to opera or watch ballet, we have great respect for these artists, because it is something we cannot do. Acting is no different. Only the naive would attempt a career in the arts without developing skills.
Acting is a craft that requires respectful attention. It is learned and refined over years of practice. In a world that is obsessed with the cult of celebrity - where actors are marketed like commodities - the understanding of what is required to act is often diminished.
Acting requires sensitivity, empathy and hard work. Actors use themselves to offer insight into the lives of human beings and their relationships; often giving voice to the voiceless. It is a noble profession and one that deserves respect.
16th Street Acting Studio is privileged to offer a training program for actors in the art and craft of screen performance. It is an environment where actors are supported to grow as artists, are encouraged to stretch their limitations, and are guided in their careers and creative lives. Our actors will develop a deep respect for the craft of acting and for themselves as artists.
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David Field
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David is one of Australia's most highly regarded and prolific film actors. His film credits include Everynight Everynight, Chopper, Blackrock, Two Hands, The Oyster Farmer, Getting Square, The Night We Called it a Day, and Tom White.
He has worked extensively in television including Wildside, Farscape, Stingers, Blackjack, Mary Bryant and Grass Roots and is currently filming City Homicide.
David recently made his directorial debut to critical acclaim with the feature film The Combination.
In theatre, David has starred in A View from a Bridge (Ensemble) Victory Ball and La Dispute for STC and a slew of Company B productions. He also starred in the acclaimed The Boys at the Stables.
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He has won a Helpman Award, Sydney Theatre Award and an AFI award for My Husband, My Killer and boasts a distinguished three AFI nominations.
David brings years of experience and understanding of both film acting and teaching to the program.
David's Philosophy
The body is the actor's greatest tool.
David's Approach
How do actors use themselves fully in the realisation of character?
How do actors meet the emotional demands of the scene while dealing with the technical requirements of film acting?
David will work on film technique to deepen the actor's understanding of process. He will help actors navigate the challenges involved in all scripts including conveying "information" in dialogue and using your body to tell the story.
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Leith McPherson
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Leith has worked as a performer, director and voice coach in Australia and the U.K
She was a Lecturer in Voice at WAAPA for many years and has taught in London at a number of drama schools including Central, Rose Bruford College, Drama Studio London, East 15 Acting School, Mountview Arts School, London Centre for Theatre Studies, The Actors' Company and The Courtyard Theatre Company.
A graduate The Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Leith is currently completing a Masters in Creative Arts focusing on Shakespeare's Verse and the Training Actor.
Leith's practical voice work is heavily based on the work of Kristen Linklater, Cicely Berry, Patsy Rodenburg and David Carey (now Head of Voice at RADA).
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Her work focuses on a dynamic physical integration between breath, body, text and audience.
Leith identifies the vocal needs and the vocal potential of individual actors and adapts the training to help realise that potential in the most efficient and effective way for that actor.
Leith's Philosophy
A true voice expresses what is thought and felt without censorship: to free the actor of the barriers between their internal experience and external expression.
All voice work is about becoming a better actor, not just having a better voice. When breath, body and word connect, the actor is truly present in the moment. Voice work is about making the rich inner life audible; it's about finding dynamic connection and expression and developing the craft of good performance.
Voice is the actor's calling card.
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John Bolton
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John Bolton is a highly accomplished actor, director and master teacher.
John has been awarded the Kenneth Myer Medallion for Outstanding Services to Theatre, the VCA Teaching Excellence Award and two Green Room Awards for My Brother the Fish.
He was Director of Theatre at the Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh and co-founded Artworks, a theatre company performing throughout Scotland and Europe.
John was Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently an Associate Artist at the VCA. He founded the John Bolton Theatre School and has lectured at WAAPA and the Drama Action Centre, Sydney.
John trained at the reputed Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
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He toured internationally with his solo show Bum's Ride and was invited to join the Toronto International Festival in The Tempest.
He also toured his solo show Jumping Mouse throughout the USA, Scotland and Australasia and he was invited to perform at the Dublin Festival.
John has directed numerous plays at The Malthouse Theatre, Theatreworks, Melbourne International Festival, Adelaide International Festival, Belvoir Street Theatre, Gasworks and Zootango Theatre in Hobart to name a few.
John's Philosophy
The Neutral mask is one of the basic building blocks for any form of acting. It is acting without any idiosyncrasies. It is before character, where every impulse is embodied, where every movement is essential and the actor is perfectly revealed. The students' imagination is allowed free reign to move beyond the ordinary into the rhythms of the natural world and the most important of human encounters.
In the words of Bari Rolfe: The Mask conceals, and by concealing, reveals.
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Noni Hazlehurst
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Noni is one of Australia's most distinguished and respected actors.
Her career in film and television spans far and wide including her acclaimed performance in Little Fish for which she won her 4th AFI award.
She jointly won Best Actress at San Sebastian Film Festival for Waiting and 2 AFI Awards for Best Actress in Monkey Grip and Fran. She more recently played opposite Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush in Candy.
In television, Noni won another AFI Best Actress award for Waiting At The Royal, and has starred in The Shiralee, Nancy Wake, and won two Logies for her portrayals in Waterfront and Ride on Stranger.
She recently played lead roles in Stepfather of the Bride and Curtin and is currently starring in Channel Seven's City Homicide.
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Noni's theatre credits are vast include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, On Our Selection, Cut and Thrust Cabaret (London's West End) and for the STC: Hamlet, No Names No Pack Drill, The Precious Woman, Navigating, Breath of Life, and Woman In Mind.
A loved member of the Playschool team for over 20 years, Noni also hosted Better Homes and Gardens for 10 years (five Logie wins).
She has co-hosted the Logies, directed the AFI-nominated telemovie The Fish Are Safe, and has had extensive experience in writing, comedy, presenting, and recording.
Noni received an Order of Australia (AM) in 1995 for services to children and children's television.
Noni Hazlehurst has served on several boards including Film Australia and Belvoir St Theatre Co and brings an incredible depth of experience to 16th Street Acting Studio.
Noni's Philosophy
Actors use what they know about themselves and the world so that we can come together and share our humanity. By focusing on our differences, we understand our similarities.
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Alkinos Tsilimidos
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Alkinos is considered one of Australia's most important contemporary film directors. He has a reputation as an 'actors director' and is known for his uncompromising approach to stories of social relevance.
He is a graduate of Swinburne School of Film and Television (now VCA) and his début feature film Everynight...Everynight scored international critical acclaim, awarded Best First Film (Prix D'Montreal) at the Montreal World Film Festival and was in Official Selection at the Venice International Film Festival.
His second feature Silent Partner received an AFI nomination and was in Official Selection at the Toronto and Montreal International Film Festivals.
His feature film Tom White received extensive critical acclaim and over thirty Australian film award nominations (Colin Friels winning the FCCA and the IF AWARD for Best Actor.)
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Alkinos's next feature Em 4 Jay again participated at numerous international film festivals.
"Authenticity makes EM 4 JAY a Down Under low budget TRIUMPH." (Variety Magazine)
Alkinos is currently working on his fifth feature, Rambles and brings an incredible depth of experience as a writer and director to 16th Street Acting Studio.
Alkinos's Philosophy
Actors need to be free. They imprison themselves with their need to be liked, their need for praise and their own ambition.
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Kerry Armstrong
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She began her career at J.C.Williamsons with Sid James touring Australia with well-known British performers before moving on to star in television shows The Sullivans, Prisoner and Skyways as well as Bruce Beresford's iconic film The Getting of Wisdom.
Moving to the US, she studied at the HB Studio in New York under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.
At The Playwrights Foundation Kerry played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Anthony Hopkins as well as Isabella in Measure for Measure at The Arena Stage in Washington and Christina in Tom Stoppard's Dalliance in New York.
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She was also a founder of the experimental theatre group 'The Actors Gang' in Los Angeles alongside John Cusack and Tim Robbins.
On return to Australia, Kerry starred in numerous shows including Police Rescue, Ocean Girl, Halifax f.p and 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
She received an AFI nomination for Best Actress in Hunting.
Kerry was critically acclaimed in Seachange collecting both a Logie and AFI Award for her role. In the same year she won a second Best Actress AFI Award for her portrayal in Ray Lawrence's film Lantana as well as an IF Award and Film Critics Circle of Australia Award.
Kerry went on to star in the TV series MDA - scoring another AFI nomination - and films including One Perfect Day, The Oyster Farmer, Car Pool and Razzle Dazzle for which she received her 5th AFI nomination.
She recently played in ABC's Bed of Roses and has penned a book The Circles. She is currently working on her next book.
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Nicholas Hammond
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Nicholas Hammond is an international actor of stage and screen and an acclaimed screenwriter.
His feature film credits are vast, notably starring as Robert in the original Lord of the Flies and Frederick in the 20th Century Fox classic The Sound of Music.
Other starring roles include Skyjacked for MGM, Superdad for Disney, Deadly Dust, The Chinese Web, Emerald City, Black Cobra, Paradise Road, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles and Mao's Last Dancer.
On Broadway Nicholas starred in The Complaisant Love and Conduct Unbecoming and completed the US national tours of Noises Off and The Happiest Millionaire among others.
In Australia, his stage credits include numerous plays for Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre and national tours.
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Nicholas's television work is extensive with over seventy-five roles including his performances in the Emmy Award Winning Gunsmoke and Spiderman.
Other TV credits include General Hospital, Dallas, Murder She Wrote, Owen Marshall (directed by Steven Spielberg) Mirror Mirror, The Flying Doctors, Embassy, The Feds, Mercury, Flipper II, The Lost World and Farscape.
His USA telemovies and mini series include Rich Man Poor Man, Catch 22, Pollyanna, Trouble in Paradise and Dynasty. His Australian credits include Cyclone Tracy, The Challenger and 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea among many others.
As a writer, Nicholas penned the acclaimed ABC series A Difficult Woman (co-writer with Steven Vidler) and Secret Men's Business (co-writer with Christopher Lee).
His feature film writing credits include Peril and Joy and Sun both currently under option and Vets and Dazzlers for television, also under option. He also just made his directorial debut in a play he has co-written.
Nicholas Hammond brings incredible experience and industry knowledge as an actor and writer to 16th Street Acting Studios.
Nicholas's Philosophy
The essence of theatre and film is story -telling. It must be the objective of every actor to tell the story as truthfully and effectively as possible.
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Louise Siversen
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Louise is a highly regarded theatre, film and television actress who has worked in the industry for thirty years starring in over fifty television series.
She was nominated for a Green Room Award for Art and Soul at the Melbourne Theatre Company and a Silver Logie as Most Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role for Janus.
She became a household name as Lou Kelly in the cult series Prisoner and has stared in Australia's most celebrated shows including The Sullivan's, The Flying Doctors, Janus, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers and Neighbours. Louise also played the anchorwoman in Backberner for eleven series and has worked extensively for the Melbourne Theatre Company and La Mama in Melbourne.
She has trained with Lindy Davies, Phillipe Gaullier, The H.B Studio and The Atlantic Theatre Company School, New York. She is also one of Australia's most experienced voice-over artists.
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As a teacher, Louise brings a wealth of experience and understanding of the craft of acting to the program. She has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School for over eight years and lectured at the VCA Film School nurturing directors' understanding of the actor's process.
Louise has also lectured at Deakin University and The National Theatre.
Louise's Approach
Impulse work allows actors to relieve their logical minds of 'working it out' to just inhabit the world of the play and find pathways to create performance that is liberated and passionate in energy.
Impulse work encourages the actor to explore the language and life of the play without censorship. The focus is exploration, not 'results'.
We accept through impulse everything that arrives and then begin the gentle art of determining what will serve that piece of work.
Louise's Philosophy
"The ego has to be out of the way for the actor to be free to tell the story."
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Kate Woods
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Kate Woods is one of Australia's most accomplished and awarded directors.
Her first feature film, Looking For Alibrandi won five of its Eight AFI Award nominations including Best Film. It was also nominated for seven Film Critics Circle of Australia awards.
She recently directed many episodes of popular US television series including Jerry Bruckheimer's Without a Trace, Bones, Crossing Jordan, Shark, Law and Order and Private Practice.
Kate has enjoyed a long association with the ABC starting with GP, Phoenix (AFI Nomination Best Director) and Janus for which her episodes were nominated for two more AFI Awards.
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Other series include Police Rescue, Heartland, Corelli (which received a BANFF International Award), Mercury, RAW FM, Wildside and Jim Hensen's Sci-Fi series Farscape.
Kate's direction of the miniseries Simone de Beauvoir's Babies was nominated for a BANFF award and Five AFI Awards.
Other credits include The Farm and Changi - a six hour mini series nominated for three AFI Awards (including Best Mini Series), a silver medal from The New York Festivals and the Gold Camera Award from the US International Film and Video Festival.
Kate has several feature films in development and recently received the 2008 ADG Michael Carson Award for Excellence In Television Drama Direction.
Kate's Philosophy
Actors are storytellers just like writers and directors. The only difference is the pen or brush they use. The canvas is themselves. Actor's draw upon themselves, to allow an audience to see the human soul.
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Penny McDonald
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Penny has been working in theatre for over twenty-five years and has taught the Alexander Technique for twelve.
She is one of Australia's foremost teachers of the Alexander Technique and trains other teachers in this method of work.
The Alexander Technique is taught in most drama schools around the world. The technique helps actors learn how to take care of themselves in all aspects of performance. This involves discovering the connection through the body and between the body and mind.
Penny also teaches at the Australian National Academy of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School and brings expertise in her field to 16th Street Acting Studio.
Penny's Philosophy
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We are all connected, and through performance we strengthen and enhance that connection.
For someone to share with you from a connected place is truly nourishing. The reverse side - if a performer is not connected with their breath and intention - we can become uncomfortable.
Actors need to take care of themselves and their audience and then they can journey together.
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Raimondo Cortese
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Raimondo Cortese is an established writer for film, television, fiction and experimental texts.
He is a VCA School of Drama graduate and a founding member of Ranters Theatre of which he was the Artistic Director for six years.
His plays include The Room, Lucrezia and Cesare, The Large Breast or the Upside-Down Bell, The Fertility of Objects, Features of Blown Youth, St Kilda Tales, Roulette (a series of 12 two-handers), The Wall, Affection and Holiday.
His fiction includes a collection of short stories, The Indestructible Corpse.
Raimondo has written for film, television and radio and also teaches dialogue writing at the VCA.
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He has also written a number of visual and experimental texts including Variations of the Same, Bruitgrammes 1-77, Vastexts and Heresies.
He has exhibited in group-exhibitions of visual texts in Australia and overseas and has also designed textual installations, including 'SALIVATE' for the Melbourne City Library.
Raimondo's Philosophy
All serious theatre makers crave to glimpse the essential living spirit that drives us as human beings. The audience witnesses humanity beneath all the apparel of social conformity.
Actors have a natural gift at expressing themselves verbally. These gifts serve them well when writing dialogue, devising scenes and developing their own scripts for film and theatre.
In Australia, where actors are increasingly finding it difficult to get work, where the competition from overseas is fierce, the assessment of an actor's worth is often based on a world that increasingly respects the role of the entrepreneur; the pro-active spirit.
It becomes essential that actors know how to make their own work - to write their own scripts, to devise their own scenes, to produce their own stories.
They certainly have the ability; what they lack, most often, is direction - simple processes that might enable them to craft and hone their skills; to let go the assumption that it is not their place to make their own work. Raimondo's Company has also travelled extensively overseas.
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Jennifer Flowers
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Jennifer Flowers is an actor, director and teacher.
Her credits include notable performances in Doubt - for which she received a Helpman Award Nomination for Best Actress - The Lady in the Van and The Crucible for Sydney Theatre Company (STC).
She has won the Matilda Awards for Excellence in Acting/Directing four times.
Jennifer was recently the Associate Director and Touring Director of A Year of Magical Thinking working alongside Cate Blanchett.
She has also directed Morning Sacrifice, The Glass Menagerie and the national tour of Amigos for the STC.
Other directing credits include Molly Sweeney, Top Dogs and Antigone for the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) and numerous plays and national tours for QPAC, USQ, Expressions Dance Company and La Boite Theatre.
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Jennifer has starred in over 50 plays. These include Honour, After the Ball, The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard, The Glass Menagerie and Hotel Sorrento for QTC.
Other acting credits include The Removalists, Private Lives, Hedda Gabler and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for TN! Theatre Company and numerous plays for other companies.
She has been a board member of both TN! Theatre Company and QTC.
Jennifer's Philosophy
Language is an essential component of our need to communicate and the skills required to bring great texts to life will always be part of an accomplished actor's craft.
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David Cameron
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David is a multi-award winning actor and director.
He is a graduate of NIDA and Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).
His directing career began with the stage production A Life in the Theatre and the TV sit-com, Us and Them. He went on to direct D-Generation's film clips Five in a Row and Five More in a Row and scores of television commercials.
David has directed numerous series including State Coroner, Good Guys, Bad Guys and The Wayne Manifesto for which he won an AFI Award. He also directed Seachange, Wicked Science, Life and Stingers for eight seasons.
David is currently directing City Homicide for the 7 Network.
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He has co-produced and directed corporate documentaries and was the Voice Director on the BBC children's animated TV series, Dogstar.
As an actor, David was a core member of the 'Performance Syndicate' and played in their acclaimed production of The Tempest. Other theatre work includes lead roles for Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company and Playbox.
David's film credits include Mad Max and My First Wife and his numerous television roles include the mini-series Water Under Bridge for which he won a Sammy Award and Logie Award nomination for Best Actor.
David is also a voiceover artist and is an Associate at the VCA School of Drama, running the graduating acting students' film and TV course.
David's Philosophy
Actor have within them one or more 'ways of being' that come easily, and that are fascinatingly real. With specific process-work these become easier to access and can bring authenticity and real feeling to any story they are part of. These 'ways of being' are always present, when actors shine, when they say 'the part was made for you'
I don't know of any great screen actor who doesn't employ this ability.
Through this course, we identify aspects of each actor's personality that translate powerfully to the screen.
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Penelope Chater
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Penelope is regarded as one of Australia's most experienced professional acting teachers having taught for over 30 years. She is a graduate of both NIDA and the Drama Centre London.
She has taught for the Nimrod Theatre, NIDA, the VCA and the CPA Adelaide to name a few. She has also collaborated with various artists writing shows - most recently In the Arms of a Lion at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Penelope teaches the Stanislavsky method, derived from Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York and Character Analysis developed by Yat Malmgren, who established The Drama Centre in London.
Penelope established the Drama Studio in Sydney where she directed and taught for twelve years.
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Character Analysis was conceived by movement theorist Rudolph Laban and further developed by Yat Malmgren. Yat's students included Anthony Hopkins, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery, Colin Firth, Paul Bethany and director, Peter Brook. This technique addresses character types and Penny is one of the most respected and hailed teachers of Yat's work.
Penny's Philosophy
An actor is a virtuoso performer who needs unimpeded access to their inner depths both physically and emotionally, to be in free flow. They need to be highly tuned beings - physically, vocally and psychologically - to inhabit any character they may wish to become. Character Analysis is a unique, detailed, rigorous diagnostic tool that enables such transformation.
Character Analysis gives actors a unique language to interpret and understand oneself and others - both in life and art. It is a vehicle for embodying direction - a distinctive, multifaceted palette from which to draw on - so that you could potentially 'shift on a nuance'.
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Robert Marchand
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Robert is a graduate of the Australian Film & TV School and has worked in the industry for 25 years as a director, writer and teacher.
He began as a script consultant on the AFI Award winning film Malcolm and went on to win Three AFI Awards in the same year for his films Danny and The Cellist.
Rob was co-writer and director on the popular mini-series Fields of Fire (I & II) and won another AFI Award for his direction on Come in Spinner. The mini-series also received a New York Film & TV Festival Silver Award.
'He went on to direct the BBC's Boys From the Bush and Kangaroo Palace receiving an AFI Award nomination for Best Miniseries. He also won a bronze medal for direction of Drainman at the New York Film Festival.
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Rob directed The Potato Factory - receiving a Silver Logie nomination - and other telemovies including Singapore Sling and Marriage Acts.
He is Australia's foremost expert in British director, Mike Leigh's method of work and has conducted workshops in the U.S.A, New Zealand and Australia. He has been an improvisation director (using Leigh's process) on several films including Newcastle, Monkey Puzzle, Cedar Boys, Playing for Charlie, Bernadette and The Rivers Secret.
He has been a mentor and educator to first-time Indigenous filmmakers and a mentor and script adviser on the emerging writers program for Tropfest. In addition, Rob has been a script assessor for the N.S.W Film and Television Office.
He is currently doing his PHD on character based improvisation process at Flinders University Drama Centre.
Robert's Philosophy
The best-known practitioner of character-based improvisation process is the British director Mike Leigh. Over a 30 year career, Mike Leigh has been responsible for a remarkable output of films and television plays including Happy Go Lucky, Vera Drake, Career Girls, Secrets and Lies, Naked and Meantime.
Mike Leigh's approach to his films is very much his own. Starting without a script, he spends time with each actor alone, creating a unique character for each one. The actor is sent out to research the background, class, work situation, home life and any other relevant aspect to this character.
This process makes for films that are idiosyncratic, funny and heartfelt, grounded in the reality of everyday English life. The performances generally exist on a level of detail and intensity not often found in film and the characters stay in the mind as if you had met them first hand.
Robert will work on this model of work with students.
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Lucy Freeman
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Lucy trained in the US at The Stella Adler Conservatory and founded The Acting Studio, Melbourne.
She has directed numerous original Australian works including Kill the Wolf at the Arts Centre Conversations for Theatreworks and The Perfume Garden at Playbox.
Other recent directorial credits include Wild East and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
As Artistic Director of The Acting Studio, The Melbourne Arts Ensemble and Passed Muster Productions, she has staged many plays including Through the Dark, The Woolgatherer, Fool for Love and Lonely Lennie Lower to name a few.
Lucy has written and directed a documentary Freedom of Choice, music video clips as well as a series of web interviews.
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She has also worked as a script assessor for both Melbourne Theatre Company and Playbox, and a director/dramaturge of the Screenplay Readings series at ACMI.
Lucy is currently completing a Masters in Directing.
Lucy's Philosophy
Actors need the confidence to ask questions, to speak out their ideas and trust that the more they bring themselves to the work, the richer the end result.
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David Symons
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David Symons is a director, teacher and performer and was nominated for a Green Room Award for direction in 2006.
He is a graduate of the VCA (Theatre Directing) and also studied with Deborah Hay in Seattle.
David studied Viewpoints and Composition in New York with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company after being awarded the prestigious George Fairfax Theatre Award.
David has directed plays at the Malthouse, fortyfivedownstairs, La Mama, National Theatre Drama School, WAAPA, VCA and Catalyst Theatre in Canada to name a few.
He has also been awarded numerous grants from the Australia Council, Arts Victoria and the Ian Potter Foundation
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David also teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and brings a breadth of experience to 16th Street.
David's Philosophy
By investigating notions such as tempo, gesture, shape, duration, repetition, and spatial relationship actors become deeply aware of these principles and their application to performance.
Viewpoints is a system of actor training based on the natural principles of movement, time and space.
Viewpoints trains actors to be more expressive and articulate with their bodies; to see performance possibilities beyond their habitual limitations and to become more acutely aware of the whole performance environment.
Gestures become meaningful rather than hollow, and characterizations more complex. Actors develop greater range and a performance becomes more alive and engaging.
Viewpoints offers a performance vocabulary that reveals an actor's habits and patterns and the awareness to change and grow.
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Sandra Sciberras
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Sandra graduated from the VCA School of Film and Television where her short film Frail Mary went on to receive numerous awards.
Her first feature Deeper than Blue followed and premiered at the Sydney International Film Festival.
Her critically- acclaimed feature film The Caterpillar Wish was nominated at the Film Critic's Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. It went on to win an AFI award for Best Supporting Actress (Susie Porter) and an IF award for Best Art Direction.
Sandra is also a post-graduate lecturer at the VCA School of Film and Television.
She is currently working on her next feature film.
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Sandra's Philosophy
The art of acting for the screen is when an actor uses their whole body as if they're on the largest stage in the world and gives it all in a fleeting moment through their eyes. I love that moment of truth on the screen.
Sandra's Approach
1. Serving the Story.
It is always about the script. The actors will work on screenplays in a workshop environment, exploring from a textual and characterization perspective the elements inherent in specific stories. If these elements are missing the story is compromised.
2. The Director's Process.
What is the process a director is going through when they shoot a scene? The actors will learn about the elements of this process and how they inform and impact upon performance.
3. Flexibility
When a director appreciates an actor's process, it supports their performance. But not all directors do. The actors will work with a variety of scenarios, not all of them ideal to discover how to navigate their way through difficult situations.
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Glenda Linscott
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Glenda is an actor, director and a highly experienced acting teacher and film coach.
She is a NIDA graduate and has studied at and the Actors Center in both London and Sydney.
Glenda first starred in the long running television series Prisoner. Other TV roles include The Cowra Breakout directed by Phillip Noyce, Janus, Murder Call, All Saints, MDA and McLeod's Daughters.
Her film credits include Jindabyne, Deck Dogz, The Nugget, The Man Who Sued God and Back of Beyond.
Her theatre work is extensive including Shadow Passion at Chapel off Chapel, Crimes of the Heart for Marian St Theatre and numerous plays for the STC including Nicholas Nickleby, The Women of Troy and Angels In America.
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She completed national tours of Steaming, Harlequinade and Shirley Valentine.
Glenda has directed Our Country's Good for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Midsummer Night's Dream for Theatreworks and an array of plays for the VCA.
Glenda has extensive experience as an acting teacher working at VCA, NIDA, The Actor's Centre, The National Theatre Drama School, and St Martins Youth Theatre in Melbourne to name a few.
She also notable worked as the acting couch on Jindabyne.
Glenda's Philosophy
Actors need to understand what they do is of immense value to society.
Actors must be resilient, courageous and prepared to risk giving of themselves.
Actors need time and permission to rehearse - the how of a performance.
I want to help actors work out the best process for them to rehearse a role in film and television. Each actor is different and their needs change over time and space.
I care about creating actors who can transform as a direct response to text through reading, dramaturgy, imaginative connection, nurturing, planning and ultimately making choices as a performer.
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Susan Gorence
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Susan is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, and was invited into the Academy Repertory Company.
She was also awarded the prestigious Drama League of New York Scholarship and has majored in theatre at two American universities.
She began her career as an actress in film, television and theatre with credits including Ocean Girl, Singapore Sling, Zoo Family and The Gingerbread Lady for Emsemble and more recently, Three Hotels at La Mama.
Susan is a leading accent coach having worked on numerous films including Gross Misconduct and The Leonski Incident.
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She also has also worked for the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Victoria State Opera to name a few.
Susan also regularly works with casting consultants and acting studios in Melbourne and conducts private tuition in dialect coaching.
She is known for her through understanding of accent work and her unique method of dialect training.
Susan’s Philosophy
"The ultimate goal of the actor is to have no acting at all."
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Anthony Wong
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Anthony Brandon Wong is a teacher and award-winning actor who has worked in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia.
His feature film credits include the role of Ghost - the Zen Buddhist Assassin in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions as well as the lead character (alongside Jada Pinkett Smith) in the Enter the Matrix video game.
Other film credits include Twentieth Century Fox's Flight of the Phoenix, Mask of the Ninja, Floating Life, Little Fish and the Australian comedy Crooked Business.
He was most recently seen in ABC's Samurai Girl and in the BBC's Secrets of the Forbidden City.
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Other television credits include The Unit, NCIS, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Disney Channel's Jumping Ship, All Saints, Water Rats and Spellbinder 2.
Anthony won the Green Room Award (Best Actor) for his performance in Sex Diary of an Infidel, which also netted him a Sydney Critics Circle Award nomination.
He was also nominated for two other Green Room Awards for The Temple and The Language of the Gods.
Anthony brings an array of teaching experience to 16th Street having taught at TVI Studios (LA), NIDA and The Actors Centre to name a few.
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