Terence Crawford | |
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| Occupation(s) | Actor, author, theatre director, songwriter |
Terence Crawford is an Australian actor, author, theatre director, academic, and songwriter.
Terence Crawford graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney as an actor in 1984.
He achieved a Masters of Creative Arts from James Cook University in 2000 with his dissertation on Chekhov in an Australian cultural context. His PhD thesis, from University of Sydney in 2015, was entitled "Real Human in this Fantastical World: Political, Artistic and Fictive concerns of actors in rehearsal: an ethnography".
Crawford has acted with many of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as in television programs and films, including The Babadook and Stateless.
In 2017 and 2018 he toured Australia, and to the Auckland and Singapore Arts Festivals, playing O'Brien in Headlong, Almeida Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse's production of Duncan MacMillan and Robert Icke's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984.
As a playwright, Crawford's work has been produced by many theatre companies including Griffin Theatre Company Theatre or Image and Sydney Theatre Company as well as for radio and television.
He has directed productions of many Shakespearean plays.
In addition to teaching acting Crawford has taught play-writing, dramaturgy, and directing at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
He has held head of acting positions at the following institutions: Theatre Nepean (NSW), TTRP (Singapore) (now ITI), LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), and Adelaide College of the Arts (ACArts). He has also been a director at WAAPA and a guest at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris).[citation needed]
In 2018 Crawford gave the keynote address at the inaugural AusAct conference, at Charles Sturt University, and in 2013 he was honoured by the University of Adelaide, which awarded him the title of adjunct professor.
He has written many songs with songwriting partner Richard Davies as well as on his own. These songs have featured in various theatrical and musical contexts, and are played by his current[when?] band, Almost Evelyn.