Nick Curnow: Official Website Launched!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

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Actor

BA (Performance) - UWS Theatre Nepean (graduated with Distinction in 2002)
Grad. Dip. Humanities (Theatre Studies and Linguistics) - UNE Armidale (2006)

Has appeared on stages across Sydney, including
Sydney Opera House Studio "Emergence" (+ national tour)
Belvoir St Downstairs "The Altruists" (2005 Mardi Gras Festival)
SBW Stables "Beautiful Thing"
Parramatta Riverside "Operator"
Newtown Theatre "Naomi in the Living Room" (2008 MG Festival)
Seymour Centre Downstairs "Mexico City"
New Theatre "Take Me Out" (2009 MG Festival); "James and the Giant Peach"
Bondi Pavilion "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"; "Julius Caesar"

You may have seen him on ABC's JTV in Paula's Guide to Love (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/tv/comedy/paulasGuide.htm) or in a TVC for Schizophrenia Awareness Week voiced by Russell Crowe.

You can interact with him at www.buildyourownbeing.com !

Director

Nick studied directing at UNE Armidale in 2006.

In 2008 he directed for New Theatre's inaugural season of Brand Spanking New.
Interrupting Grace by Augusta Supple, with Bel Delia and Stephen Peacocke.

Later that year he directed a moved reading of David Mamet's Speed the Plow for New Theatre's Education Program

In 2009 he directed once more for Brand Spanking New. This time Lone Bird by award winning playwright Verity Laughton (The Nargun and the Stars, The Ice Season, The Sweetest Thing) with Fiona Press, Tim Allen, and Bruno Xavier.

In 2010 he directed Atomograd by the award winning Caleb Lewis (Nailed, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy, Dogfall, Ghost Shark) with Kate Skinner and Melissa Matheson

In 2011 he directed the Australian premiere of Canary by Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Beautiful People, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street) for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival at the New Theatre.

Voice & Dialect Coach

Nick graduated from NIDA in 2007 with a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Arts (Voice Studies).

He offers private one-on-one or group coaching, specialising in accent and dialect for performers. He is also available for foreign accent reduction, coaching in vocal technique - from breathing to phonetics and articulation - and approaches to text - from Shakespeare to Mamet.

Private clients have included Garry McDonald, Steve Rodgers, Tina Bursill, Valentino del Toro, Henri Szeps, Stephen Peacocke, Bel Delia, Caroline Craig and Merrick Watts.

He has coached on productions including:
Four Flat Whites in Italy directed by Sandra Bates for Ensemble Theatre (New Zealand)
Between Us directed by Jennifer Don for Ensemble Theatre (GenAm, Midwest, New York)
The God Committee directed by Andrew Doyle for Ensemble Theatre (GenAm, AAVE, Chicago)
My Fair Lady directed by Stuart Maunder for Opera Australia (RP, Cockney, Hungarian)
Reuben Guthrie directed by Wayne Blair for Company B (Czech)
God's Ear directed by Jonathan Wald at the Reginald (GenAm)
Cherry Smoke directed by Michael Dahlstrom at the Old Fitzroy (Appalachian/South Midlands USA)
Alaska directed by Janice Muller for ATYP Under the Wharf (Lancashire)

Angels in America: Part 1 directed by Alex Galeazzi at Parramatta Riverside (GenAm, Utah, New York)

The Laramie Project directed by Jonathan Llewellyn at Parramatta Riverside (GenAm, Wyoming, Texas, Southern, New York, and more)

Nick Curnow

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Official Website Launched!

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