Artist Bio
Carine Laughton is a collaborative theatre-maker, director and writer specializing in the creation of cross disciplinary new work. Her original work has been presented in festivals across France, Bosnia, South Africa, and toured in more than 17 countries. Carine Laughton creates physically driven theatre and experimental performance and is particularly interested in the intersection of theatre, urban sites, movement, and performed events, and her work often challenges rigid distinctions between them. As a freelance director, she creates site-specific and site-derived theatre for theatres and festivals. She was the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of international ensemble, Imibala Theatre (1999-2003) and Director of La Menagerie Theatre (2004-2016).
Highlights include: The Fertile shadow (2002), When we’ll have wings (2001), Exsulo, are, aui, atum- Polaroids of exile (2004), Searching for Dionysus, (2014), Sentinel#2084 (2019), Leaves and Lashes (2019)
Returning to Australia in 2018, Carine was appointed teaching artist and sessional academic at the University of Newcastle in NSW, where she is currently undertaking her doctoral research on Jacques Lecoq pedagogy. In 2020, she was the recipient of the prestigious Vice-Chancellor Award for High Degree Research.
Carine is also an experienced theatre educator and teacher. She has taught undergraduate, graduate and professional actors at the University of Swansea and the Trinity College in Wales, the Actor Centre in Sydney, the Australian International Performing Arts School (AIPAH) in Sydney.
As a Teaching Artist she worked with various institutions such as Theatre de verre, Mains d'oeuvre TransEurope Hall in Paris, and has also participated in the implementation of humanitarian artistic educative programs in refugee camps in collaboration with the UNHCR, in Eastern and Southern Africa at, among others, the University of Kampala, The University of Kigali. She also collaborated with important NGOs such as Worldvision and Save the children.
Education: MA. Literature Trained at Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre,
Master. Education
PHD Candidate in Creative and Performing arts, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
