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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