SHANE ANTHONY
Shane Anthony is an award-winning director, dramaturg and movement director with a passion for interrogating stories of social justice and humanity, and an interest to create new work inspired by community driven process. Over the last 20 years, his work has toured nationally and internationally, with productions ranging from text-based work, to physical theatre and circus, to musical theatre and cabaret. He is a graduate of the Directing Program at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Screenwriting for Feature Film at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and has completed a BA in Theatre Studies at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Select directing credits include Ulster American by David Ireland for Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre, Our Blood Runs in the Street by Chopt Logic and the ensemble, Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch (nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards), The Whale for Redline Productions at The Old Fitz Theatre (nominated for eight Sydney Theatre Awards in 2016), Lighten Up by Nicholas Brown and Sam McCool at Griffin Theatre, Songs for the Fallen for the New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner of Best Musical), Sydney Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne and Brisbane International Arts Festival, Altar Boyz, Calendar Girls and Avenue Q for Fortune Theatre (New Zealand), My Name is Rachel Corrie for La Boite Theatre and Donwstairs Belvoir, 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić, Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, Orestes, Trojan Women and Radio Hysteria for NIDA Open, Doctor Faustus and The Crucible for RCHK (Hong Kong), Mrs Bang: A Series of Seductions for the 32nd Stage Song Festival (Poland), Often I Find That I Am Naked for Critical Stages – (Australian National Tour), Motortown by Simon Stephens for 23rd Productions (nominated Best Show, Matilda Awards).
Movement direction includes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime for The Court Theatre in Christchurch, the Australian feature film, Sleeping Beauty, Angels in American for The New Theatre, Small Mercies for La Boite Theatre, and as show director for CIRCA on their European tour of CIRCA.
In 2007 he travelled to New York to continue training with Anne Bogart and the Saratoga International Theatre Institute. In 2012 he received a Mike Walsh Fellowship to attend the New York Film Academy in NYC. He is a recipient of the inaugural Youth Arts Queensland Spark “Jump” Mentorship and an Anna Sosenko Fellowship.
Before embarking on a career as a director, Shane worked as an actor for many years. Select credits include performing with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre in Macbeth, Unleashed, Ashes of Atreus and several other devised works for the company, for Leticia Caraces in Mountain Language by Harold Pinter and for Suzanne Little in La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler.
Shane also facilitates workshops, lectures and seminars for a vast range of companies, both nationally and internationally. He is a core tutor across several departments at NIDA including the BFA programs, Open Program, Education and Corporate. He also teaches and directs for Sydney Film School, UK-based International Schools Theatre Association, Australian Institute of Music, Sydney Theatre School and Sydney Actors School.
Shane is privileged to live and make work primarily on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Guring-gai peoples of the Eora Nation and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.
