Edwin Kemp Attrill
Edwin Kemp Attrill is a theatre artist and activist from Adelaide, South Australia, who has received several awards for his contribution to community arts and cultural development.
Themes
[edit | edit source]His work is focused on interactive theatre techniques, community engagement, and social justice themes.[1][2][3]
Career
[edit | edit source]In 2011 Attrill became the artistic director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild,[4] one of Australia's longest running amateur theatre companies.[5] He was the first artistic director of the Theatre Guild since Chris Drummond.[4]
Attrill was the co-founder and artistic director of ActNow Theatre, which he started when he was 17 years old.[6][1][7][8] ActNow Theatre originally created guerrilla-style street theatre performances about social justice issues.[9] It eventually moved into staged work and community-based projects, focusing on community arts and cultural development, and known for its "boal-ian" forum theatre[10] to create interactive and issue-based work. Under Kemp Attrill's role as artistic director, ActNow Theatre received multiple awards and federal and state funding.[9]
Attrill's roles on various projects with the company included as director and facilitator of interactive performance Responding to Racism, which received a South Australian Governor's Award for Multiculturalism,[11][12] as one of the executive producers and the director of photography of theatre/film COVID-19 response project Decameron 2.0,[13] and as co-director of co production with Taiwan's Very Theatre called Virtual Intimacy.[14][15][16]
In 2020 Kemp Attrill notified the ActNow Theatre Board that he would not be seeking to renew his contract, citing a focus on “the next stage of his career and professional development”, and leaving the role at the end of 2020.[17][18] He later became the creative director of social enterprise Replay Creative[19][20] which aims to improve access to film and online audiences for local performing arts organizations.[21] In 2023 he worked on a new presentation of the work Virtual Intimacy with Very Theatre for Mix Festival in São Paulo, Brazil.[22][23]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Leadership Award Winner, 2013 Channel 9 Young Achiever Award[24][25]
- Geoff Crowhurst Memorial Award for an individual contribution to community cultural development, 2015 Arts South Australia Ruby Awards[26]
- Kirk Robson Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development, 2018 Australia Council for the Arts Awards, for "outstanding leadership within the [Community Arts and Cultural Development] sector"[27][28][29][30]
- Governor of South Australia's Award for Multiculturalism,[11][12]
- Carclew Creative Achievement Award, 2020 Seven Network Young Achiever Awards[6]
References
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