|
Bachelor Dramatic Art, NIDA
TAA40104 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Certificate IV in Business (Small Business Management)
Glenda has extensive teaching, coaching and directing experience and has been employed by many Australian drama-training organisations since 1989. She has written, developed and conducted classes, courses and workshops covering a wide range of topics including:
- Introduction to Acting
- Improvisation
- Comedy
- Acting 1
- Acting 2
- Contemporary Text
- Classic Text: Shakespeare
- Playmaking
- Voice
- US Dialect
- Voice Over
- Radio Drama
- Performing with Confidence
- Audition Technique
- Acting for the Camera
- Screen Test Skills
As a Sessional Trainer Glenda has worked for the following organisations:
1989 – 2003, NSW
- NIDA Open Program
- The Actor’s Centre
- The Actor’s College of Film and Television
- Australian Theatre for Young People
- Saret School of Drama
- EORA School for Indigenous Artists
2004 – 2011, VIC
- The Victorian College of the Arts: Foundation Program, 2004 - 2009
Class Work
Shakespeare Monologues and Scene Study
Contemporary Text, Monologues and Scene Study
Voice Over
Acting for the Camera
Performing with Confidence
Productions
A Winters Tale (my own adaptation) 2008
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker 2006
The Victorian College of the Arts: School of Drama
Directing Credits
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2007
- Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, 2007
- Auditions: Theatre and Screen Tests. 2007
- Distant Lights from Dark Places by Andrew Bovell, 2008
- Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, 2011
- Shakespeare Scene Study, 2011
Glenda has been invited several times as an industry professional to conduct auditions on behalf of the VCA Drama School in Melbourne, Hobart, Perth and Adelaide.
The Victorian College of the Arts: School of Music
Directing Credits
- The Happy Prince adapted and composed David Young, 2010
- Broadway Bound: Scenes and Songs, 2009, 2010
The Victorian College of the Arts: Knowledge Transfer Unit
- Mt Eliza Business School: Corporate Trainer 2007 -2011
- Workshops: (several)
- Storytelling; Communication Skills; Presentation skills
The National Theatre
- Comedy Scenes; 2009
- Masterclass: Andrew Bovell 2008
St Martin’s Youth Theatre
- Shakespeare: (regular trainer)
Melbourne University
Drama School Preparation Workshops: Shakespeare 2008, 2009
McMahon Film and TV International
- QLD and VIC Studios 2010 – 2011
- Acting for Camera, (Beginners and Advanced)
- Screen Test Skills
- Shakespeare Scene Study
- Voice
- US Accent
Acting for TV: a 30-week, full time course. Written and co-ordinated, Core Trainer
Acting for TV: a 30-week, part-time course. Written and co-ordinated, Core Trainer
Verve Studios
Causal Relief Teacher, scene study
Primary and Secondary Schools, VIC 2004- 2010
Drama for Kids
- North Fitzroy Primary School
- St John’s Clifton Hill
- Carey Grammar
Primary and Secondary Schools, NSW 1995 - 2003
- Macdonald Secondary College
- Wesley College
- Canterbury Primary School
- Annandale Primary School
- Fort Street Selective High School
- Numerous secondary schools in NSW while on tour with the NETC production of Romeo and Juliet in 1997
In 2009 Glenda launched her own business Perform with Confidence, which provides training and support for actors and young performers. She also coaches actors privately by appointment to achieve excellence in drama school auditions, screen tests, call-backs, theatre auditions, rehearsal preparation and performance.
|
