BIOGRAPHY
Tina is a New York based international theatre artist from Australia and works as an actor, director, theatre maker, teaching artist and University Lecturer. A graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts she holds a Masters of Arts Practice specializing in Performance from Charles Sturt University. Tina has trained extensively with The SITI Company, and works her way across the United States, Australia and Colombia each year. Other training includes The Suzuki Company of Toga, HB Studios, Cicely Berry and The Lessac Institute.
Tina is co-Artistic Director of Australian based Chopt Logic Productions, a company dedicated to producing inter-disciplinary, innovative and physically based live performances that reflects socially relevant issues and concerns. She specializes in making work that fuses text, movement and music and has performed in some of the leading Arts festivals in the world. Her project Miss Julia, a bi-lingual adaptation of Strindberg’s classic play, premiered at the Iberoamericano Festival de Teatro de Bogotá and has been performed in Festivals across Colombia, Italy, the United States and Spain. She created the title role of Mata Hari, in the interdisciplinary opera of the same name, which premiered in the 2017 Prototype Festival. She has worked for many international companies including Spain’s La Fura dels Baus, the English National Opera, SITI Company, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall and The Brooklyn Philharmonic. Tina played Lady Macbeth for Southwest Shakespeare, was part of the cast of Punchdrunk’s Obie Award Winning Sleep No More and appeared in The Event of a Thread with SITI Company at The Park Avenue Armory. Tina has worked with The Metropolitan Opera on Wozzeck and Lulu, both directed by William Kentridge.
As an independent theatre maker Tina has created work in the United States, Colombia and Australia and her work has been included in many international arts festivals including the Iberoamericano Festival de Teatro de Bogotá, The Napoli International Teatro Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre for the Chicago Latin American Theatre Festival, LATC for el Encuentro de Las Americas, La Mama NYC, the Iberoamericano Festival de Cádiz, Spain, the Manizales International Arts Festival, Colombia, The Australian Festival for Young People, The New York Fringe, the Singapore Fringe and the Adelaide Fringe to name a few. Her directing debut, Live Fish, a devised movement/theatre piece, was nominated for the Adelaide Fringe Inspace Award for best new work in 2010. In 2022 she will be taking on the role of Movement Coach for Immersive Theatre piece The History of Now and will direct 2 pieces for Guerilla Opera in Boston.
As a teaching artist, Tina has taught in many institutions across the globe. She is an adjunct Lecturer at Barnard College for Columbia School of the Arts, Associate Professor at The Boston Conservatory and part of the movement faculty at Maggie Flanigan Studios and the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. She also teaches at Brown University, and is a Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. She will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Long Island University in September 2022. Tina is a recipient of the Helpmann Academy emerging Director and Mentorship Awards, recipient of a State Theatre Company of South Australia Assistant Director Fellowship and 2015 Leimay Fellowship.
For more information please visit www.tinacmitchell.com or www.choptlogic.com.au.
Tina conducts coaching in person in New York City and online via Zoom. For more information click here.
Photograph by Paula Court.