'An Autonomous Artist' - Actor, Director, Performance & Script Consultant and Arts Educator, Lindy Davies

STAGES with Peter Eyers

Lindy Davies has worked as a Director, Actress, Actor Trainer and Performance Consultant, winning awards and nominations for performance, direction and inspirational leadership. Her contributions to our cultural heritage and stages are remarkable and many. Lindy Davies was a founding member of La Mama in Melbourne; a company that forged a new wave of theatre writing and performance in Australian theatre. Her work as an actress includes film and theatre. She was awarded the A.F.I as Best Supporting Actress for the film Malcolm. And on stages has mesmerised in Scenes from an Execution (Belvoir), The Seagull, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Wild Honey (SATC), Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, World is Made of Glass, Buried Child (Playbox); and with Rex Cramphorn's Actor's Development Stream: Antony and Cleopatra, Britannicus, Hamlet, Not Suitable for Adults and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Lindy Davies has worked extensively as a performance consultant in film in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. She conducted Performance workshops for actors, writers and directors at the Canadian Film Centre from 2010 - 2019. Lindy worked with Julie Christie on Robert Redford's The Company You Keep and Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Previously she worked with Julie on Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious '39 and Sarah Polley's Away From Her for which Julie won a National Board of Review Award, a Critics' Circle Award, a Screen Actor's Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Julie Christie was also nominated for an Academy Award for this performance. Lindy's work as a Director includes productions in Europe and Australia. For the National Theatre of Slovenia: Scenes From an Execution and The Changeling. Old Times at the Moscow Maly Theatre. At Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End: Old Times (with Julie Christie, Leigh Lawson and Dame Harriet Walter) and Hedda Gabler at Chichester Festival Theatre (with Dame Harriet Walter, Nicholas Le Prevost and Phyllida Law). At the Sydney Theatre Company she has directed Three Days of Rain, A Month in the Country and Old Times. With Bell Shakespeare; As You Like It and at Belvoir Street; Scenes from an Execution. Lindy has also been involved in Actor Training for thirty years. She was Head of the School of Drama at the former Victorian College of the Arts from 1995 to 2007 and also held the position of Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to1982. She is presently writing a book on her Approach to Performance: The Intuitive Actor... a path to Autonomy. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Whooshkaa and Spotify. Also from where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au