18 January 2019Tom Ballard opens NIDA's year of 60th anniversary celebrations with In Conversation: Love is Love, examining LGBTQI+ stories on stage and screen.
NIDA welcomes Karilyn Brown to the helm of our Cultural Leadership course
16 January 2019NIDA is pleased to announce Karilyn Brown, former CEO of Performing Lines, Executive Director of Arts Development at the Australia Council for the Arts, and General Manager of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, as Course Leader of the Masters of Fine Arts in Cultural Leadership.
9 January 2019Each month, we're catching up with one of NIDA’s creative leaders, to show you the artist behind the educator. This month we sat down with Dr Egil Kipste, the Director of the Centre for Creative Practices.
Creating character: Behind-the-scenes in NIDA’s make-up department
21 December 2018In the busy time between end-of-year showcase and industry placements, we caught up with two of NIDA’s Diploma of Screen and Media (Specialist Make-up Services) students, Annabel Cameron and Eilidh Strachan.
Multi-award-winning guest director brings non-traditional Russian theatre to NIDA
20 December 2018In 2018, NIDA was pleased to host multi-award-winning international guest director Oleg Glushkov for a highly unique, once-off theatre project with a cohort of our students.
NIDA congratulates staff, board members and alumni at APDG Awards
18 December 2018NIDA congratulates our winning staff, board members and alumni at the 8th Annual Australian Production Design Guild Awards which recognise excellence in design in screen and live theatre.
Australia as muse– interviews with NIDA's 2018 Directing students
14 December 2018In the 2018 cohort of NIDA’s Masters of Fine Arts (Directing), some of the students were inspired by iconic Australian themes and stories such as the music of Midnight Oil, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich, and cult classic film Wake in Fright.
Iconic females the focus of emerging women artists at NIDA
13 December 2018Princess Diana: an iconic feminist? Hedda Gabler: the Kim Kardashian of the 1800s? Young women at NIDA are creating stories about iconic females.
Vocational students take to the stage at Pinchgut Opera placement
13 December 2018Putting their NIDA skills to the test with Pinchgut Opera, Vocational Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services students completed a secondment at City Recital Hall in Sydney.
