Program Leader
Briony Dunn is a theatre director, dramaturge, acting coach and arts leader with particular focus on interpreting her experience as artist practitioner into educator. Briony's most recent position was Literary Manager at Theatre Works where she was also Festival Director of the Radical Acts playwriting festival.
Briony is co-Artistic Director of Iron Lung Theatre, an MTC Women in Theatre alumni (2020-21), a directing graduate of NIDA and has a Master of Arts in Theatre (UNSW). Briony has worked with and taught at some of Australia’s finest arts organisations including Theatre Works, Company B Belvoir, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Downstairs, NIDA, ATYP, PACT & Stark Youth Theatres and Playwriting Australia.
Directing credits include Moth by Declan Greene, Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice (trans. Iris Gaillard), When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell, ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman, Blank by Alice Birch, Electra, Orestes and The Women of Troy by Euripides, Der Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller, Endgame by Beckett, No Exit by Sartre, Life is a Dream by Calderon, La Dispute by Marivaux, Wild Honey by Michael Frayn, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton, Translations by Brian Friel, Summer of the Aliens by Louis Nowra and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Email: bdunn@collarts.edu.au