BIOGRAPHY
TINA MITCHELL BIOGRAPHY
Tina is a New York based international theatre artist from Australia, and works as an actor, director, theatre maker and educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Head of Physical Theatre and Movement at Long Island University Post. Tina has trained extensively with The SITI Company, is a SITI Company Associate and works her way across the United States, Australia, South America and Europe each year.
As an independent theatre artist, Tina specializes in making work that fuses text, movement and music and has performed in some of the leading Arts festivals in the world. She was Artistic Director of Australian Company Chopt Logic for many years and was part of the Artistic team behind Miss Julia, a bi-lingual adaptation of Strindberg’s classic play, which premiered at the Iberoamericano Festival de Teatro de Bogotá and has been performed in Festivals across Colombia, Italy, the United States and Spain. She created the title role of Mata Hari, in the interdisciplinary opera of the same name, which premiered in the 2017 Prototype Festival in NYC and had a subsequent season for Westedge Opera in San Francisco. Her work has been performed in Festivals and theatres worldwide including La Mama NYC, the Napoli International Arts Festival, the Iberoamericano Festival de Cádiz in Spain, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Manizales International Arts Festival, The Singapore Fringe and the Australian Festival for Young People to name a few. She has worked for companies including Spain’s La Fura dels Baus, the English National Opera, SITI Company, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall and The Brooklyn Philharmonic. Tina played Lady Macbeth for Southwest Shakespeare, was a cast member of Punchdrunk’s Obie Award Winning Sleep No More and appeared in The Event of a Thread with SITI Company at The Park Avenue Armory. Tina has worked with The Metropolitan Opera on Wozzeck and Lulu, both directed by William Kentridge and was part of the acting ensemble for Simon McBurney’s Die Zauberflöte, also at The Metropolitan Opera and Palau de las Artes in Valencia Spain. Her one woman show For Tender premiered in NYC in December 2023 and recently had a successful run at Teatro del Garaje in Bogotá, Colombia. She has just finished a role as Principal Understudy to Sandra Oh in La Fille de Régiment with The Metropolitan Opera..
Tina has taught at many institutions worldwide including Barnard College for Columbia School of the Arts, NYU, Brown University, The Boston Conservatory, Atlantic Theatre School and many more institutions in South America, the USA and Australia. Tina is a recipient of the Helpmann Academy emerging Director and Mentorship Awards, recipient of a State Theatre Company of South Australia Assistant Director Fellowship and NYFA Immigrant Artist Fellowship.
For more information please visit www.tinacmitchell.com.
Tina conducts coaching in person in New York City and online via Zoom. For more information click here.
Photograph by Paula Court.