Terence Crawford (actor)
| Terence Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born | Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor, Acting Teacher, Author |
Terence Crawford is an actor, acting teacher, author and playwright. He is currently Head of Acting at Adelaide College of the Arts.
Career
Terence Crawford graduated NIDA as an actor in 1984. Since then he has acted with many of Australia’s major theatre companies. He has held Head of Acting positions at the following institutions: Theatre Nepean (NSW), TTRP (Singapore) (now ITI), LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), and ACArts (SA). He has also been a director at WAAPA and a guest at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris).
Crawford has two books published with Australia’s leading publishers of theatrical material, Currency Press: Dimensions of acting: An Australian approach, (2011) and Trade Secrets: Australian actors and their craft (2005).
As a playwright, Crawford's work has been produced by many theatre companies including Griffin Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company as well as for radio and television.
In addition to teaching acting Terence has taught play-writing, dramaturgy, and directing at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
A director of more than twenty productions, Terence has a particularly strong interest and history in Shakespeare, having directed ten of his works.
In 2013, University of Adelaide honoured Terence by awarding him the title of Adjunct Professor, and the Minister for the Arts appointed him a member of the Peer Assessment Panel for Arts SA.[1]
In 2017 Terence will tour Australia playing O'Brien in Headlong, Almeida Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse's production of Duncan MacMillan and Robert Icke's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 for GWB Entertainment, Ambassador Theatre Group Asia Pacific and State Theatre Company of South Australia.