Australian actress (born 1946)
Lindy Davies
Born (1946-08-29 ) 29 August 1946 (age 78) Occupations Director Actress Actor Trainer Performance Consultant Website www.lindydavies.com
Lindy Davies (born 29 August 1946) is an Australian actress, director, actor trainer and performance consultant.[ 1] soap opera Prisoner AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 filmMalcolm Victorian College of the Arts for over 11 years until 2007,[ 2] Afterglow Away From Her Julie Christie .
Born inMelbourne ,Victoria , Davies has been an influence on many actors, includingCate Blanchett ,[ 3] Harriet Walter ,[ 4] [ 5] Julie Christie .[ 6] Electra National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992, and worked with Christie as a consultant on theDennis Potter TV seriesKaraoke Hamlet Afterglow Away From Her Glorious 39
Davies, who has said that "Intuition" is the defining principle of her process.[ 7] [ 8] Canadian Film Centre from 2010 - 2016.[ 9]
National Theatre of Slovenia:Scenes From an Execution National Theatre of Slovenia:The Changeling [ 10] Moscow Maly Theatre,Old Times . Wyndham's Theatre West End,Old Times (withJulie Christie ,Leigh Lawson andHarriet Walter ).[ 5] [ 11] Theatr Clwyd ,Old Times (withJulie Christie andLeigh Lawson )[ 11] Chichester Festival Theatre ,Hedda Gabler Harriet Walter Nicholas Le Prevost andPhyllida Law )[ 12] Chichester Festival Theatre ,Suzannah Andler (withJulie Christie )Sydney Theatre Company ,Three Days of Rain, A Month in the Country (Opera House),Old Times Bell Shakespeare Company :,As You Like It Belvoir St Company B ,Scenes from an Execution State Theatre Company of South Australia ,Room to Move Playbox ,Fool for Love Victorian College of the Arts ,The Rover ,A Midsummer Night's Dream Women Beware Women (Middleton/Barker),The Cherry Orchard Three Sisters Lysistrata National Institute of Dramatic Art ,A Midsummer Night's Dream ;Electra Miss Sarah Sampson .Pram Factory:Calling For Help La Mama :Calling For Help Open Stage:Marat Sade; Ride Across Lake Constance; The Birthday Party Performance Consultant [ edit ] Lindy Davies has developed an approach to performance: a process; which is an intuitive imaginative connection to language, space and transformation.
She has worked as a Performance Advisor/Consultant on many films including:
Sarah Polley 'sAway from Her withJulie Christie .Lindy also worked with Julie Christie onNeverland andTroy . Alan Rudolph'sAfterglow with Julie Christie. Sally Potter 'sThe Tango Lesson .Kenneth Branagh 'sHamlet with Julie Christie.Dennis Potter 'sKaraoke with Julie Christie.Michael Whyte'sThe Railway Stationman with Julie Christie. Pat O'Connor'sFools of Fortune with Julie Christie. Australia: includesLooking For Alibrandi ,Radiance ,The Leaving of Liverpool , Talk,MDA. Indivision Lab 2009 AFC Consultant alongside Christine Vachon, Susanne Bier and Claudia Karvan. Screen Australia 2011 Flash Black Performance Workshop for Indigenous Directors. From November 1995 to January 2007, Lindy Davies was the Head of the School of Drama at the formerVictorian College of Arts inMelbourne ,Victoria ,Australia .[ 9] Lindy Davies created an integrated curriculum for the training of Actors, Directors, Writers, Theatre-Makers, Designers and Technical Practitioners at the School of Drama of the former Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. From 1979 to 1982 she held the position of Head of Acting at theVictorian College of Arts . From 1970 to 1978 she was a lecturer in drama at Melbourne State College. Malcolm AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress)Belvoir St Company B ,Scenes from an Execution (Galactea), (nominated for aCritic's Circle Award for Best Actress)N.I.D.A. Company ,Vassa , (Vassa) (nominated for aCritic's Circle Award for Best Actress)State Theatre Company of South Australia ,The Seagull Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Wild Honey (Anna Petrovna).Hunter Valley Theatre Company,Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New Work: Lyndal Jones: Prediction Piece; Nan Hassall: Biennale Piece;Jenny Kemp :The White Hotel. Playbox,Upside Down at the Bottom of the World , (Frida),World is Made of Glass (Magda),Buried Child (Haley). Rex Cramphorn 's Actor's Development Stream,Antony and Cleopatra Britannicus Hamlet Not Suitable for Adults (Kate).La Mama ,Mishka and Nomagava .(Mishka);Thoughts on Meeting A Friend; Halewyn; Tombstone. The Pram Factory ,Marvellous Melbourne ;Marvellous Melbourne II ;Chicago Chicago ;Don's Party La Mama Experimental Theatre Company :Calm Down Mother; Comings and Goings; Birth of Space; I Don't Know Who to Feel Sorry For; Dimboola, Halewyn. ^ "The 1998 Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture: Become the Change".Australasian Drama Studies (34). April 1999. ^ "Lindy Davies interview" .Debbie Kruger . Retrieved15 August 2017 .^ "Cate Blanchett - Biography" .Cate Blanchett . 11 May 2011.^ Walter, Harriet (1999).Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting . Viking.ISBN 9780670883530 ^a b Billington, Michael (2007).Harold Pinter . Faber and Faber. p. 371.ISBN 978-0571234769 ^ Christie, Julie (11 September 2006).Away from her (DVD Commentary). Canada: Lionsgate Films (US).Julie Christie refers to Davies as her acting guru ^ Ginters, Laura (April 2007). "Lindy Davies: a path to a process, Part 1".Australasian Drama Studies (50). Ginters, Laura (April 2008). "Lindy Davies: A Path to a Process, Part 2".Australasian Drama Studies (52). ^ Strube, Helen (1996).The autonomous actor : a case study of Lindy Davies (Thesis). Queensland University of Technology. ^a b "Lindy Davies" .cfccreates.com . Retrieved4 September 2016 .^ "Lindy Davies directs "The Changeling" in Drama - Slovenian National Theatre" .Vimeo . Retrieved3 September 2016 .^a b McFadyean, Melanie (23 July 1995)."Julie Darling" Independent .Archived from the original on 14 June 2022 – via independent.co.uk. ^ Gross, John (17 August 1996)."Hedda to Hedda" .The Telegraph . Archived fromthe original on 26 February 2016 – via telegraph.co.uk. ^ "Distinguished Alumni Awards" . Monash University.[permanent dead link ]
