Ashley Wain
Adjunct Lecturer
+1-646-306-2387
ashleywain@gmail.com
Bio
Career Summary
Ashley Wain trained at the Victorian College of the Arts with David Latham, June Jago, Anne Thompson and other influential theatre artists. He worked in the theatre as an actor, director and teacher for over a decade, appearing in significant roles for the Hole in the Wall Theatre, The Effie Crump Theatre, the Perth International Festival of the Arts and the Blue Room. Most recently, he performed in Dear Sisters, Sweet Sisters: a fantasia on Chekhov, directed by Leonid Verzub, with whom he has also trained intensively in the Russian acting tradition.
Directing credits include Palaces in Ruin, devised with his own company, Agamemnon for the University of Ballarat and The Cherry Orchard, Orpheus Descending and Platonov: a fragment at Charles Sturt University, where he was Lecturer and Course Coordinator of the Acting Program from 2006-2008. Until recently he was Head Teacher in New York City for the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts USA. He is currently teaching movement, mask and meditation at the Fires Creek Center in North Carolina, USA.
Research Interests
He has researched the spiritual dimensions of modern acting, and completed his PhD thesis, Acting and Essence: experiencing essence, presence and archetype in the acting traditions of Stanislavski and Copeau, through the University of Western Sydney in 2005. Other interests include archetypal identifications, neutral and character mask, non-ordinary states of consciousness, the Stanislavski ‘system’, Michael Chekhov technique, and Active Analysis.
Teaching
Ashley’s teaching draws on both the French (Copeau/Lecoq) and Russian traditions. He teaches mask, movement, Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov technique. He has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts, St Martin’s Youth Theatre, The National Theatre Drama School, the Broken Limb Theatre Company, the University of Ballarat, University of New South Wales, Charles Sturt University and the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts USA.
