David Raymond Fenton

Ph.D. Performance Innovation (Practice-led) QUT, M.F.A (Dramaturgy) QUT, B.A. (Directing) QUT, Grad. Dip (Directing) NIDA, Dip. Teach, (Drama and History), Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education.

David’s scholarly and teaching work is extensive. He completed a practice-led Ph.D. in Performance Innovation at Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries entitled Unstable Acts; a practitioner’s case study of the Poetics of Postdramatic Theatre and Intermediality in 2007, for which he won the Philip Parsons Prize for ‘Performance as Research’ from The Australian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.

Significant positions David has held have been artistic, academic, executive and managerial. During his forty-year career David has directed over seventy professional theatre productions. He previous position was as Associate Head of Learning and Teaching (Graduate Studies) at the Australian Institute of Music where he was also leading the teach-out for the Bachelor of Performance in Dramatic Arts. Other roles at the Australian Institute of Music David were Program Leader for Graduate Studies and Program Leader for the Scholarship Portfolio. Before this David was Acting CEO of Metro Arts 2014-15 and before that Head of Performance Practices (NIDA) National Institute of Dramatic Art 2012-14.