Are you thinking of a career in the performing arts? Then look no further than Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, a leader in education and training for theatre, television and film.
Ausfilm will convene a working group to address below-the-line workforce capacity with the Office of the Arts, Screen Australia, the state screen agencies, AFTRS and NIDA, with aims to ultimately develop a national framework to support growth.
Within just six short years of graduating NIDA’s MFA Writing for Performance course, Gretel Vella has been nominated for an AWGIE, written and co-produced an international series for Hulu, and served as showrunner on her own series.
NIDA and Prime Video have awarded Master of Fine Arts Directing student Nicole Puni and Master of Fine Arts Writing student Krishna Patel the $50,000 Prime Video Scholarships.
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NIDA alum Travis Cardona is set to return to the institute to be its first ever head of First Nations.
Former Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch may have only started at Screen Australia in February, but he has already undergone a title change.