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Mr Crispin Taylor

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6450
Email: crispin.taylor@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML2.104  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1484-0388

Crispin is a Senior Lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Background

Crispin is a graduate of Ensemble Acting Studios, and has a Graduate Diploma in Directing from NIDA. He began his career as a performer in Musical, Cabaret, and Straight Theatre.

From Sydney, his directing career has included productions at the Griffin Theatre, the Q Theatre, Belvoir St (Downstairs), Marian St Theatre, the STC's Wharf Theatre, the Hordern Pavilion (Fox Studios), and the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. He was a 1994 Affiliate Director for the Sydney Theatre Company, and was Associate Director for Ensemble Theatre for five years directing over twenty productions for them.

Crispin has taught for Ensemble Acting Studios, NIDA, the Actors College of Theatre & Television, Brent St Studios, the Australian College of Entertainment, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He moved to Perth in 2001 to take up his position as Co-ordinator of the Acting Program for WAAPA s Music Theatre Department.

Directing credits here include THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, BYE BYE BIRDIE, THE GOOD FIGHT, THE PAJAMA GAME, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, The Australian Premiere Of Andrew Lippa S, A WILD PARTY, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM And CHESS.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art, The National Institute of Dramatic Art.
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Edith Cowan University, 2021.
  • Graduate Certificate of Education, Edith Cowan University, 2011.

Research Outputs

2011

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Taylor, C. (2011). Crazy for You. WAAPA.

2010

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Taylor, C. (2010). Anything goes - Director. WAAPA.

2007

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Taylor, C., Hobbs, JL. (2007). The Good Fight. WAAPA.

2006

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Taylor, C. (2006). Sweet Charity - director.
  • Taylor, C. (2006). Charitable Intent - director. Perth Theatre Company.

2004

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Taylor, C. (2004). The Witches of Eastwick (Director). WAAPA.
  • Taylor, C. (2004). Horizons-director.

Research Projects

  • Horizons, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Grant, 2004, $120,000.
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