Matthew Crosby

Matthew Crosby graduated from NIDA in 1981 and has been a member of MEAA-Equity since 1968. In addition to his local work as an actor, writer, director, producer and teacher in the performing arts, in the last 30 years, he has toured performances to Europe, Asia and Japan. In 1991, he participated in the SCOT/Playbox collaboration that trained with Tadashi Suzuki in Toga, Japan and then toured his ‘Chronicles of Macbeth’ Tokyo/Adelaide International Arts Festivals. He received a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1995 studying various forms of contemporary Japanese theatre during which time he met director of Korean influenced Tokyo company Shinjuku Ryozanpaku. From 1997-2000 he studied part-time Japanese Language at RMIT. He has been the recipient of Two Asialink residencies, 2000/2011, and DFAT, The Japan Foundation, the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and the Playking Foundation have supported his facilitation of practice and performance development in local Melbourne theatre and collaborative tours between Japan, Australia and other Asian centres over twenty years. Together with Yumi Umiumare and Ben Rogan, Crosby collaborated on the award-winning ‘DasShoku’ series of butoh/cabarets 1999-2006 touring Australia and Osaka, and he has performed in most Australian theatre festivals as well as Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Thessaloniki. He is a founding member (2009) of theatre company The Thursday Group, which conducts slow-burn laboratory on practice and performance development. He is currently doing an MFA theatre at FOFA, VCA, University of Melbourne investigating the manner of collaboration within the group.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts