Aubrey Mellor

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Aubrey Mellor

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Alma mater National Institute of Dramatic Art
Occupations
Awards

Aubrey Mellor OAM is an Australian theatre director, dramaturge and teacher. [1]

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Mellor has had a multi-disciplinary practice, having also worked as a writer, adapter, set designer, translator, producer, and stage manager. [2]

Early life and training

Brought up around variety and circus, Mellor trained in many fields as a young man. His experience traversed dance, music and visual art. He went on to graduate from a production course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NDIA) in Sydney in 1969.

In 1972 Mellor was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. This experience allowed Mellor to study the traditional theatre of the East with a view to incorporating principles observed in Japan where appropriate into the Australian theatre techniques. [3]

Artistic direction

Mellor has directed a wide rage of performance from opera to dance and film, and held multiple artistic directorships during his career.

Mellor was the Artistic Director of the Jane Street Theatre, which grew out of NIDA. [4] [5]

He was Co-Artistic Director of Nimrod Theatre Company in Sydney for a short time in the early 1980s. [6] He was Artistic Director of the (Royal) Queensland Theatre Company from 1988 to 1993. [7] He was also Artistic Director at Playbox (later renamed Malthouse Theatre) in Melbourne until 2004. [8]

Education appointments

Aubrey is well known as an acting teacher across the Asia Pacific region.

Mellor returned to NIDA as Director in 2005, succeeding John Clark after his nearly forty years in the role. Mellor stayed at NIDA until 2007. [9]

He was then Dean of the Performing Arts Schools at Lasalle in Singapore where he designed a new program bringing together the best European and Asian training. [10] [ better source needed ] He was a Senior Fellow with Lasalle until 2017.[ citation needed ]

Mellor continues his teaching work as a visiting professor to arts colleges in Mongolia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. [11]

Awards

In 2004 Mellor received an AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild) special award known as the Dorothy Crawford Award. [12] This prize is awarded for outstanding contribution to the writing profession and industry. [13]

Mellor was the recipient of the International Theatre Institute's Uchimura Prize, for best production at the Tokyo International Festival. [14]

Aubrey is listed in the Matilda Awards Hall of Fame for his contribution to the theatre industry in Queensland. [15]

Honours

Aubrey was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1992 for his service to the arts. [16]

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  2. ↑ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "MELLOR, Aubrey's Fellowship Profile". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Aubrey Mellor (ed)". Aurora Metro Books. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Old Tote Theatre Company". The Dictionary of Sydney. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "See how it Runs: Nimrod and the New Wave". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 June 2002. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  7. ↑ Hands, Karen (December 2015). "The royal New Wave: Aubrey Mellor and Queensland Theatre Company, 1988–1993". Queensland Review. 22 (2): 157–167. doi:10.1017/qre.2015.28. hdl: 10072/99214 . ISSN   1321-8166. S2CID   148458097.
  8. ↑ "Playbox Theatre: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  9. ↑ Lawson, Valerie (8 March 2008). "Battle over arts and minds divides NIDA". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "Aubrey Mellor".[ self-published source ]
  11. ↑ "Arts Education in Asia 2017". Non | Traditional Research Outcomes. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  12. ↑ "AWGIE Special Awards 1973-2018" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2019.
  13. ↑ "Full List of Winners for the 55th Annual AWGIE Awards" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Steering group". Humours of the Past. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  15. ↑ "Matilda Awards Hall of Fame".
  16. ↑ Tay, Jean; Quintos, Floy; et al. (25 January 2017). Southeast Asian Plays. Aurora Metro Publications Ltd. ISBN   978-1-910798-88-1.
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