COLIN SCHUMACHER
B.Ed (Drama and Film/TV) Deakin University
M.A. (Theatre and Film Studies) University of New South Wales.

Colin is currently Adjunct Professor for Boston University in the Internship Program and Adjunct Senior Lecturer for Charles Sturt University. He was Senior Lecturer in Writing and Directing for Television at Charles Sturt University from 1999-2002.

He has been a director and teacher of stage performance and production (most recently 2004 New York's International Fringe Festival); and screen performance and production for over twenty years. He currently enjoys regular off-shore directing, scriptwriting and teaching work in the Maldives, Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan.

Colin has directed and lectured in theatre and screen performance with Princess Sukhumabinan of Thailand's mentorship for the past fourteen years.

He has been a screen acting coach for "Home and Away"; "A Country Practice"; "E Street"; "Today Tonight"; "Big Breakfast"; "Saturday Disney"; "Disney Playhouse". He is currently a script-writer for the Disney Channel.

Colin has directed over 80 theatre productions from Shakespeare to Rock Opera for the GRIFFIN, ENSEMBLE, RIVERINA, U25, THEATRE SOUTH, YOUNG VIC (LONDON), SALLE MALESHERBES (PARIS), LA BOITE, THE QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY, JUTE, and NOUVEAU TEATRO COMPAGNIE, SOMPRASONG FOUNDATION and PATRAVADI THEATRE COMPANY (THAILAND).

In Australia he has directed and taught at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Sydney University, the Actors Centre, the Actors College of Theatre and Television, the McDonald College of Performing Arts, the Sydney Institute of Technology and Bond University. Overseas he has directed and taught at Thammarsat University, Rajabhat Institute: Suan Sunandha; Nakonsawon, Surin, and Meanprasatvittaya (Thailand); the Hanoi Film and TV Academy; Malesherbes (Paris).

Colin is an advisor on a range of educational forums, and he is currently completing his secondary textbook "Making Meaning OnScreen".

 

   
 
   
 


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