Phoenix Ensemble Competitors

The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s leading institution for education and training in theatre, film and television. For more than 50 years, NIDA has nurtured some of Australia’s and the world’s greatest performers, artists and creative professionals. Higher Education Provider ID: PRV12052 | CRICOS CODE: 00756M | RTO Code: 90349 Based in Sydney, NIDA comprises higher education courses, NIDA Open public courses, NIDA Corporate communication and presenting training and NIDA Theatres. NIDA offers Diploma, Bachelor and Masters qualifications across a broad range of performing arts disciplines as varied as acting, directing, cultural leadership, specialist make-up and technical theatre and stage management, among others. NIDA Corporate conducts courses in Sydney and Melbourne, offering practical skills-based training in communication, presentation and leadership for individuals and businesses. Its experiential training is based on NIDA’s renowned performing arts techniques and methodology, and offers public and in-house courses, one-to-one coaching, online courses , group workshops, conference seminars and keynote speakers. For over 20 years, NIDA Open has delivered part-time and short courses for children, young people and adults in theatre, TV and film across the country. NIDA Theatres comprises five theatre spaces and other purpose-built rooms/spaces available for external hire.

Home of the Performing Arts in South Australia, the Adelaide Festival Centre offers a diverse program of festival quality shows for a broad range of tastes and budgets throughout the year. As well as our own festivals, we make sure the festival continues with a year packed full of music, dance, theatre and exhibitions. Our Mission Adelaide Festival Centre aims to; Be the South Australian arts hub and a leading Arts Centre in the Asia Pacific region. Reinvent and comprehensively upgrade Adelaide Festival Centre and successfully integrate the Festival Centre within the Riverside Precinct Development Sustain and develop our program led ethos to deliver great work in all our venues. Consolidate and increase ticketed attendances and visitation and sustain them. Ensure high quality customer experience across all aspects of Adelaide Festival Centre operations. Implement a more sustainable, responsive financial model to underpin the overall objectives of Adelaide Festival Centre.

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has been a major force in the Australian cultural landscape since its establishment in 1978. It is Australia’s largest theatre company in terms of audiences and amount of work presented each year, the state theatre company of NSW, and is recognised as one of the world’s most exciting and original theatre companies. The Company presents an annual season of around 15 productions across four harbourside theatres; Wharf 1 and Wharf 2 Theatres and Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay, and as the resident theatre company of the Sydney Opera House. Our current Artistic Director is Kip Williams, who was appointed in 2016. STC has a proud heritage as a creative hub and incubator for Australian theatre and theatre-makers, developing and producing eclectic Australian works, interpretations of classic repertoire and great international writing. STC strives to create theatre experiences of the highest standard that consistently illuminate, entertain and challenge, and that reflect Sydney’s distinctive personality and engage broad audiences. Strongly committed to engagement in the community, STC offers an innovative School Drama™ program; partners with groups in metropolitan Sydney, regional centres and rural areas; and reaches beyond NSW touring productions throughout Australia. STC’s annual audiences throughout Australia are in excess of 315,000. In recent years, the company's international profile has grown significantly with numerous productions touring extensively to great acclaim in to Europe, USA and the UK. The theatre careers of many of Australia's internationally renowned artists have been launched and fostered at STC, including Benedict Andrews, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving.