2025 Theme: Truthfulness and Transformation

We are very excited to announce that the next AusAct conference will be held at Flinders University, Adelaide, March 6 – 8, 2025.
If Truthfulness and Transformation were perhaps the twin (conflicting?) totems of the skilled actor for generations, then the highest values of today’s student may be authenticity and safety. In response, around our region, institutions are re-committing to training that “ensures the safety and agency of all actors” (Moor 90). Meanwhile, in significant international collections, including Stages of Reckoning (ed. Amy Mihyang Ginter), Critical Acting Pedagogy (ed. Lisa Peck and Evi Stamatiou), and Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training (ed. Petronilla Whitfield), colleagues around the world have grappled with the intersections of identity and training.