Lindy Davies has worked as an actress, actor trainer, script consultant, performance consultant and director, winning awards and nominations for direction and performance.
In 2012 she was awarded a two year Theatre Board Fellowship from the Australia Council, to write a book
on her Approach to Performance. She has recently
completed the book The Intuitive Actor ... a path to autonomy.
She holds masterclasses in New York, London and Toronto.
She has worked extensively in film as a performance consultant and script consultant. Most recently working at the Stratford Theatre Company Ontario the Birmingham Conservatory Stratford Ontario and the Actor’s Conservatory of the Canadian Film Centre. She has conducted Performance workshops for actors, writers and directors at the Canadian Film Centre from 2010 - 2015.
In 2014 she worked at The Company Theatre in Toronto developing a new work based on the writings of the Canadian poet Anne Carson
She was also employed by Dreamago in Sierre, Switzerland
as a script consultant to screenwriters in 2011 and 2013
Lindy worked with Julie Christie on Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep and Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood. Previously she worked with Julie on Stephen Poliakoff’s Glorious ’39 and Sarah Polley’s Away From Her for which Julie won a National Board of Review Award, a Critics’ Circle Award, a Screen Actor’s Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Julie Christie was also nominated for an Academy Award for this performance.
Lindy’s work as a Performance Consultant includes Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson; Alan Rudolph's Afterglow for which Julie Christie received a 1998 Academy Award nomination; Dennis Potter's Karaoke and Kenneth Branagh's film of Hamlet. She was one of the key contributors for the Toronto international Film Festival’s Talent Lab for emerging directors in 2006.
Lindy worked in Ljubljana at the National Theatre Company of Slovenia where she directed Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling (Premenjave) for the 2009-2010 Season and Howard Barker’s Scenes from An Execution
(Slize v Usmrtitve) for the 2010-2011 Season
Lindy also directed the acclaimed West End production of Old Times with Julie Christie and Dame Harriet Walter, the highly successful Hedda Gabler at the Chichester Festival Theatre starring Dame Harriet Walter, and Marguerite Duras' Suzannah Andler, featuring Julie Christie. Her productions in Australia include ‘A Month in the Country’, ‘Old Times’ and the highly acclaimed ‘Three Days of Rain’ for the Sydney Theatre Company.
She also directed ‘As you Like It’ for the Bell Shakespeare Company.
Lindy Davies was a foundation member of the Australian Performing Group (Pram Factory), and contributed to the renaissance of Australian Theatre in the 1970's.
During the 1980's she worked as an actress and director at Playbox, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Belvoir Street Theatre. Lindy won an Australian Film Institute Award for her performance in the film Malcolm.
Lindy is a recipient of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Special Citation for her contribution to the Performing Arts in Australia. She is also a recipient of the Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award for Inspirational Leadership and a Significant Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Drama.
From November 1995 – February 2007, Lindy was Head of Drama at the former Victorian College of the Arts where she designed and instigated an integrated course for the training of autonomous actors, theatre makers, animateurs, writers and directors.
