Celebrating 50 years of Flinders Drama Centre 

Dr Christopher Hurrell

Christopher is the Drama Centre Manager. He is a stage director and dramaturg who has worked nationally and internationally in the areas of new writing, Shakespeare and musical theatre. He has developed and directed numerous new Australian plays with writers such as Debra Oswald, Stephen Sewell, Caleb Lewis and Justin Fleming. Christopher has directed many of Australia’s finest actors of stage and screen, including Rebel Wilson, AFI Award winners Nicholas Eadie and Victoria Longley and has directed and trained acting students at institutions such as NIDA, the Rose Bruford College, Anglia Ruskin University and La Salle College of the Arts. 

Dr Sarah Peters

A playwright, theatre practitioner, and Senior Lecturer in Drama, Sarah's verbatim plays engage with communities to tell the shared stories of experience such as women living with Alopecia in bald heads and blue stars (2014), young people navigating mental health and wellbeing in twelve2twentyfive (2015), growing up in rural communities in Eternity (2017), and pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago looking for belonging in Blister (2019). Sarah's most recent publications include 'Verbatim Theatre and Dramaturgy of Belonging' (2019) and 'A Reflective Practitioner Case Study Researching Verbatim Theatre' (2020). Sarah's practice includes facilitating playwriting and collaborative theatre making projects, most recently with D'faces of Youth Arts and ExpressWay Arts (Carclew) in South Australia.

Professor Chris Hay

Chris is Professor of Drama, a position he took up in 2022 after previous appointments at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), the University of New England (UNE), and the University of Queensland (UQ). He is an Australian theatre and cultural historian, whose work examines funded cultural output for what it can tell us about national anxieties and preoccupations. His new book, Contemporary Australian Playwriting: Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage co-written with Stephen Carleton, was published by Routledge in 2022.

Dr Renato Musolino

Renato Musolino is one of South Australia’s most respected, experienced, and acclaimed actors and actor trainers.  He has worked nationally and internationally with leading companies including State Theatre Company South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir Theatre. He specialises in Laban Movement Analysis, movement for actors, psycho-physical acting, devising, improvisation, directing as well as text/scene work and has made significant contributions to the development of the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) curriculum, along with the Drama Well-being and Welfare protocols.

Dr Tiffany Lyndall-Knight

Tiffany is an actor, director, and teaching artist. She has performed with theatre companies across Australia and Canada, including State Theatre Company South Australia, Queensland Theatre and eight seasons with Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. On screen she has been featured in many projects, including Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Wanted, and A Sunburnt Christmas, which she also dramaturged. Tiffany has worked as a teaching artist with the University of Adelaide, Flinders Drama Centre, Adelaide College of the Arts, and the University of British Columbia. She also works as a dialect and voice coach with private clients and companies including State Theatre Company South Australia, STAN, and Netflix.

Dr Peter Beaglehole

Peter Beaglehole writes plays and performance work.

In 2022 he received the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award for his performance text Calendar Days, which went onto development as part of Vitalstatistix's Adhocracy. With RUMPUS he has presented a work in progress reading as part of their Baby Plays’ program, and Strata in their 2020/2021 curated season. Strata was shortlisted in the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award in 2018 and received the 2016 State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Young Playwrights’ Award. His work has also been staged and presented online in ATYP’s Intersection 2017, published by Currency press, the 2013 Come Out Festival (Now DreamBIG Children’s Festival), and in Critical Stages’ 2021 Come to Where I Am.

He also researches Australian theatre history through the field of Memory Studies, and completed a PhD focusing on six plays by Dorothy Hewett.