Profile: Brin Pritchard
In-schools Facilitator
With a Bachelor of Education in Drama and Post Graduate Diploma in Film already under his belt, in 1997-98 Brin went to Paris to study with his hero, the great theatre teacher and practitioner Jacques Lecoq.
Brin has a long list of credits as an actor, theatre writer, director and teacher in Australia and the UK. Recent performances include: Café Floriani, a very popular Commedia dell’arte performance for secondary schools; performed for companies such as Emerge, Underground and Evocations in shows such as Callisthesia at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Batavia at the Judith Wright Centre and A Man with 5 Children by Nick Enright.
With Mercury’s Wings on the Gold Coast he played Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamm in Becket’s Endgame and Leonarto in Much Ado About Nothing, and with La Mama in Melbourne played a very innovative Clown in The Show Must Go On.
Brin has extensive teaching experience. He was a tutor/director at the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE-Performing Arts Department from 1990-98 and for Inner London Education Authority at the Fleet Community Education Centre in 1986-87. Since then he has been employed by various organizations as a specialist tutor in Improvisation, Mime, Clown and Commedia dell’arte.