Teacher

John is a skilled public communicator, teacher and mentor with extensive experience across the country delivering workshops for secondary schools, training and up-skilling Drama teachers as well as teaching at major Drama schools across Australia and internationally.

He has delivered workshops and tutored in Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Adaptation, Directing, Acting, Playwriting, Australian Drama, Theatre Reviewing, Theatre History, Devising as well as tutored senior Drama and English students for major projects, productions, design and script analysis for VCE Theatre Studies and Drama.

His professional & community theatre workshops can be re-purposed for any group and have been delivered to; NIDA, Theatre Works, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Hothouse Theatre, Write Around The Murray, Monash  Uni  Shakespeare Society, Ideas Tap, Young Vic’s Genesis Programme, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, Blue Cow Theatre and ATYP. 

University lecturing includes; Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (RCSSD), Collarts, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Monash University, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Trinity College and the University of Sydney’s Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme. Subjects include; Dramaturgy, Directing, Acting, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Adaptation, Katie Mitchell Method, Script Editing and Playwriting.

John was formerly Director In Residence for Bell Shakespeare working with their education projects and is currently the Literary Manager of Australian Plays - intimately involved with the education sector through this work. He holds a current Victorian Working with Children Check and is thrilled to keep learning from his awesome son when he’s not working.