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Dr David Fenton

Dr David Fenton
Name David Fenton
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Lecturer (Theatre)
Section School of Creative Arts
Office A239
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 2152
Extension 2152
Email
Qualifications DipT BrisbaneCAE , BA(Drama) QUT , GDipTheatreDirect NIDA , MFineArt QUT , PhD QUT
Homepage https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4997-1663
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Biography

Significant positions David has held have been artistic, academic, executive and managerial. During his thirty-seven year career David has directed over sixty-five professional theatre productions. His 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.

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. Also, David worked as General Manager of Quality and Product Development and as a senior facilitator for Message Train Communication 2010-12 in Adult Learning and Development sector.

After working part-time at QUT - Performance Studies during his Ph.D. candidature from 2004, he then held the full-time position of Lecture - Performance Studies, Queensland University of Technology between 2007-09 and additionally as Adjunct Senior Lecture – James Cook University, during the same period.

Internationally, David was Artistic Director/CEO 2009-10 of Northern Ireland’s longest running educational theatre company – Replay Theatre. From 2002-04 David was Manager of Events and Entertainment at Sydney Olympic Park Authority. While from 2000-02 he was Festival Director for Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, then the largest professionally curated multi-disciplinary gay and lesbian arts festival in the world. Lastly, David was Artistic Director for Riverina Theatre Company from 1996-99.

For Bell Shakespeare, HAMLET 1993, MACBETH 1994, and TWELFTH NIGHT 1995. For Sydney Opera House Trust’s twenty-first birthday, MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM 1994 (Shakespeare meets Mendelssohn) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. For Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, he was co-awarded ‘Best Performing Arts Event’, for Shakespeare’s VENUS AND ADONIS 1996, also David directed the Australian premier of Decent’s BABY X 2000. Both works were produced by Christine Dunstan Productions.

Research Career


  • Performing Arts not elsewhere classified ( 360499 )
  • Applied Theatre ( 360401 )
  • Drama ( 360403 )
  • Performing Arts ( 360400 )

Theatre, Applied Theatre, Contemporary and Intermedial Performance, Live Art, Dramaturgy

Teaching


School of Creative Arts - Program Director Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours
School of Creative Arts - Lecture – Theatre


10 Years


39 Years

Supervision


  • Performing Arts not elsewhere classified ( 360499 )
  • Applied Theatre ( 360401 )
  • Drama ( 360403 )
  • Performing Arts ( 360400 )