Acting w/ Imara Savage

Course Overview

Imara Savage is a theatre and opera director. She has directed award-winning productions for Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera, and Griffin Independent. This six week course is comprised of monologues and partnered scene work. It’s a fantastic opportunity to run classic and modern theatre scenes with like minded professional actors, and with a professional theatre Director.  Imara will take actors through a range of practical techniques and studies, including rigorous text and language analysis, assigning monologues and scenes from contemporary and classic plays. The masterclass will examine the rehearsal process in detail with a strong focus and outcome on authenticity and truth.

★★★★½ “A striking production full of fascinating ideas and stark images that will be hard to forget.” Limelight  

★★★★★ “Director Imara Savage, one of the sharpest talents on Australian stages, has created a production that crackles and burns” The Guardian 

★★★★½ “Imara Savage – an incisive, keen-eyed director who draws lines of theatrical tension with razor-sharp focus” Time Out

www.imarasavage.com

About Imara Savage

Imara Savage is a theatre and opera director. She has directed award-winning productions for Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera, and Griffin Independent.

Her productions for Sydney Theatre Company (where she was resident director between 2016 – 2018) won multiple awards. Imara is nominated for a 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Director for her acclaimed adaptation of ST JOAN which is nominated for three Helpmann Awards including Best Female Actor (Sarah Snook). ST JOAN received four Sydney Theatre Award nominations including Best Director and Best Production.

Imara’s production of Caryl Churchill’s TOP GIRLS won two Sydney Theatre Awards. AFTER DINNER won a Helpmann Award, Best Ensemble at the Sydney Theatre Awards, and was voted Best Revival by Sydney Morning Herald. MACHINAL won two Sydney Theatre Awards. Imara also directed DINNER, THE TESTAMENT OF MARY, and HAYFEVER for the company.

Imara’s Helpmann Award winning production of MR BURNS for Belvoir and State Theatre Company of South Australia, received many award nominations including Sydney Theatre Award nominations for Best Director and Best Ensemble.

Her acclaimed production of Elliott Gyger’s FLY AWAY PETER for Sydney Chamber Opera was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Opera and toured to Melbourne Festival. Other opera directing includes: Kaija Saariaho’s THE PASSION OF SIMONE, Philip Glass’ IN THE PENAL COLONY and Benjamin Britten’s OWEN WINGRAVE for Sydney Chamber Opera which won Best Opera in the Time Out Awards.

Other theatre: for Belvoir, FOOL FOR LOVE; for Bell Shakespeare, A COMEDY OF ERRORS; for Griffin Theatre, THE BROTHERS SIZE which won Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards; for Red Stitch, ORPHANS; for NIDA, WOYZECK, the Tom Waits/Robert Wilson musical, and PUNK ROCK.

Imara is a graduate of NIDA in Directing and the NIDA Playwriting Studio and holds a BA in Communications and International Studies from University of Technology Sydney. She was the Richard Wherret Fellow and Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company and an Associate Artist at both Griffin and Bell Shakespeare.