Edwin Kemp Attrill

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Edwin Kemp Attrill is a theatre artist and activist from Adelaide, South Australia, who has received several awards for his contribution to community arts and cultural development.

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Themes

His work is focused on interactive theatre techniques, community engagement, and social justice themes. [1] [2] [3]

Career

In 2011 Attrill became the Artistic Director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild, [4] one of Australia's longest running amateur theatre companies. [5] He was the first Artistic Director of the Theatre Guild since Chris Drummond. [4]

Attrill was the co-founder and Artistic Director of ActNow Theatre, which he started when he was 17 years old. [6] [7] [8] [9] ActNow Theatre originally created guerrilla-style street theatre performances about social justice issues. [10] It eventually moved into staged work and community-based projects, focusing on community arts and cultural development, and known for its "boal-ian" forum theatre [11] to create interactive and issue-based work. Under Kemp Attrill's role as Artistic Director, ActNow Theatre received multiple awards and federal and state funding. [10]

Attrill's roles on various projects with the company included as director and facilitator of interactive performance Responding to Racism, which received a South Australian Governor's Award for Multiculturalism, [12] [13] as one of the executive producers and the director of photography of theatre/film COVID-19 response project Decameron 2.0 , [14] and as co-director of co production with Taiwan's Very Theatre called Virtual Intimacy. [15] [16] [17]

In 2020 Kemp Attrill notified the ActNow Theatre Board that he would not be seeking to renew his contract, citing a focus on “the next stage of his career and professional development”, and leaving the role at the end of 2020. [18] [19] He later became the creative director of social enterprise Replay Creative [20] [21] which aims to improve access to film and online audiences for local performing arts organizations. [22] In 2023 he worked on a new presentation of the work Virtual Intimacy with Very Theatre for Mix Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [23] [24]

Awards

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