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Advisory Board
The Advisory Board helps ACTT to stay ahead of current trends and best practice in the development and delivery of performing arts courses. The board provides the college with vital current insights from the wider educational and performing arts sectors. In addition to the Advisory Board, ACTT uses the services of guest consultants and tutors, who are experts in their respective fields, who add a depth and freshness to the college courses. Guest consultants rotate as and when their professional careers allow them to be at ACTT.
GAVIN ROBINS – Meyerhold Biomechanics
Gavin is a Meyerhold expert. He is the Director of Movement at the Sydney Theatre Company and Associate Director with Bell Shakespeare Company. Gavin’s work was acknowledged when he became the recipient of the 2006 Churchill Fellowship. He recently worked on La Fanciula for Opera Australia at the Opera House, as well being associate director and movement director for Wrong Skin, an indigenous version of Romeo and Juliet showing at the Opera House. He also works as the aerial and circus director for a huge stage version of King Kong to open in Melbourne in 2013, then on Broadway in 2014.
KHRISTINA TOTOS – Screen Acting and Directing
Khristina is one of Sydney’s leading screen acting tutors and has worked nationally and internationally as a director, actor, script editor, producer and acting coach. Her acting credits include All Saints, Going Home, Wildside, Crocodile Dundee and with the famous British director Mike Leigh in Greek Tragedy.
Linden has worked extensively in State Theatre Companies in Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland, as well as performing in a number of Sydney theatres. She continues to perform in theatre, as well as for film, television and radio. She began writing plays in the mid-eighties, Nice Girls and The Night of the Missing Bridegroom were both published and the former was performed nationally. Meanwhile she began writing and script-editing for series television. She has two feature films in development, One More River, an adaptation of Brenda Walker’s novel of the same name, and Pearls, a romantic comedy.
MOIRA BLUEMENTHAL – Theatre
Moira Blumenthal has directed and produced mainstream theatre internationally since 1988. While acting as a producer for the Seymour Theatre Centre in Sydney, she conceived and produced the BITE (Best of Independent Theatre) program, which is now in its fourth season and is supported by the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education and Arts NSW.
DAVID WHITNEY
DANIELLE ROFFE – Voice, Dialects and Casting (Guest)
As a voice, accent and dialect coach Danielle has worked with The Ambassador Theatre Group, The Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre and New End Theatre among others. Film and TV credits include Lagaan, The Search for John Gissing, Best: His Mother’s Son, Slaughter, Outcast, Holby City, Eastenders and the Bill. Danielle voice coached for Underbelly, Uninhabited, My Kitchen Rules, Me and My Monsters, ICE, Killer Elite, Company B and B Sharp at The Belvoir Theatre, The Sydney Theatre Company and with private clients. She worked as a casting director in the UK for fourteen years and has worked with a host of leading Directors and Producers.
AARNE NEEME – Theatre Direction (Guest)
Aarne has directed over 200 professional theatre productions since 1962 in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. He was Head of Drama at WAAPA for many years and was Artistic Director for Hole in the Wall (Perth), Hunter Valley Theatre Company (Newcastle) and National Theatre Company (Perth) among others. For TV he has directed Neighbours, All Saints, MDA and Blue Heelers. Aarne became friends with Alex Buzo nearly 40 years ago and has had the privilege of directing 14 of his plays including Rooted, Coralie Landsdowne Says No, Martello Towers, Big River, Macquarie, Makassar Reef, The Marginal farm and Stingray.
JO TURNER – Acting, Directing and Lecoq (Guest)
Jo is a Sydney based actor, director and teacher who trained at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He worked in Europe for many years as an actor and director and running workshops on the Lecoq Method. Jo has performed with STC, Belvoir Street, The Ensemble Theatre, Railway Street Theatre and B Sharp among others. In film and on television in Backberner, White Collar Blue and All Saints. Jo founded White Rhino for the production of new visually-driven work. As a teacher Jo has worked extensively in the areas of improvisation, comedy, physical approaches to acting and creating new work.
MAELIOSA STAFFORD – Stage Direction (Guest)
