Ms Barbara Albury
Adjunct Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: balbury2@une.edu.au
Biography
Barbara Albury lectured in Art and Drama Education and in Film and Video at the Australian Catholic University for 17 years, before leaving in 1995 to run a professional theatre company in Sydney which she had co-founded a few years earlier. Company 2a presented 11 theatre productions, mostly at the Belvoir Theatre Downstairs (Sydney). Many of these productions were reviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald and other mainstream media.
Qualifications
Teach Cert (Sydney Teachers College), BA (University of Sydney), Grad Dip Professional Arts Studies (City Art Institute), MA Theatre Studies (UNSW)
Research Interests
Grants
Barbara has received a number of grants to implement creative projects including a NSW Government grant to set up video editing facilities at the Australian Catholic University, an Australia Council grant to produce Women in Shorts - a women's writing/performance project, a UNSW Alumni Association grant to create a TV documentary on disability, a Writers Guild and ABC Radio mentorship to write a radio drama; an Armidale Third City of the Arts Grant to curate a photographic exhibition on disability at the New England Regional Art Museum; and a Community Grant to develop the photographic project into a book.
Publications
Acting Credits
Her acting credits include professional work in theatre, films and TV. Among her major stage roles in Sydney were Inez in No Exit, Avonia in Trelawny of the Wells, Jeanne in The Touch of Silk, Marie in Life in a Quiet House, Margaret Fountaine in Love Among the Butterflies, and Aurelia in Letters Home. In Armidale she has played the Prince in The Green Prince (2001), several characters in Aftershocks (2002) and Hildegard of Bingen in Hildegard (2004).
Productions
Barbara's radio drama Watching Like the Moon was broadcast on ABC Radio and her video documentary Against All Odds was shown in prime time on SBS Television. She wrote and staged Journey Between Two Cultures and Hungarian Sunday, two plays based on her childhood experiences as a migrant in Australia. Hungarian Sunday was included in the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival - A Sea Change. In 2001 Barbara co-adapted and directed Up the Creek, a play based on the writings of Dame Mary Gilmore and Edward Dyson, which was part of the official Centenary of Federation Celebration in Sydney. In Armidale, Barbara directed Away for the Third UNE Outdoor Shakespeare Festival in 2002, and she produced and directed Up the Creek at the Playhouse Theatre in 2003. In 2004 she organised To Russia With Love, a Russian arts festival in Armidale. One of the featured events in this festival was The Good Doctor, a stage adaptation of short stories by Chekhov, which Barbara directed at the Playhouse Theatre.
Barbara has also worked as a journalist/cartoonist for The Bulletin and as a book illustrator. Her drawings have been published in a number of books and magazines - most recently in the Journal of Medical Biography (2003).
