| Aubrey Mellor OAM |
 Aubrey Mellor is a leading Australian Theatre Director. He was Director of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from 2004-2008, and was formerly Artistic Director of Melbourne's Playbox Theatre - his fourth Artistic Directorship of a theatre company. He is well known as an acting teacher to a generation of acclaimed Australian actors and renowned for translations and productions of the classics. He has directed for all major companies, commissioned and premiered plays by Australia's leading playwrights and is a leading proponent of new Australian writing. He was brought up in variety and circus, trained as a dancer, visual artist and musician and graduated from the NIDA Production Course in 1969. In 1972 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and was the first Australian to study Asian theatre. He first joined NIDA's staff in 1970 as resident director and later as acting tutor, remaining with the school until 1978. He was AD of the Jane Street Theatre (Sydney) seasons 1978-9 and was Joint Artistic Director of Nimrod Theatre Company (Sydney) 1981-83. In 1985, he returned to NIDA as Deputy Director; a position he held until the end of 1987. Between 1988 and 1993 he was Artistic Director of the (Royal) Queensland Theatre Company and became Artistic Director of Playbox Theatre Centre in Melbourne from 1993 -2004. He has directed hundreds of productions in all states of Australia and produced worked for most major Arts Festivals in Australia and Asia. He worked as guest director and teacher in the United Kingdom, USA and Asian countries. He is a committee member of Performance 4A and has been an advisory member of the NIDA Board of Studies and other training schools including VCA, USQ, QUT, Toho University Japan and MyPhat Training Centre Vietnam, and has served as director, member and advisor to numerous arts bodies including the Performing Arts Board of The Australia Council and The Australian National Playwright's Conference. He was awarded the OAM in 1992 for services to the arts and the community. His many other awards include the Australian Writer's Guild's Dorothy Crawford Award for services to Playwriting and the International Theatre Institute's Uchimura Prize. |
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