Full name:

Address:
Richard William Francis Pettifer
Elsa-Brändström-Straße 45, 13189 Berlin
CV
Phone/email/website: +491773733113/rpettifer@gmail.com/richardpettifer.blogspot.com
D.O.B/Nationality: 20.10.1983 / Australian
Position: Theatre Director, Critic, Writer

Critical Writing
2013- THEATERSTÜCK, Berlin and European theatre criticism
2014-2018 Features and criticism for festivals including FAKI Festival Zagreb (CRO), Wandering Hanger Theatre Festival, (UKR)
2014-2016 Feature and critic writer for ArtSlant (US), A Younger Theatre (UK), Spook (AUS), Exeunt (UK), Arta (ROM), Samizdat (ROM), Sirp
(EST)
Conference Papers
2018 RESONANCES SUMMER SCHOOL, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (IT)
2018 THEATER IN CRISIS IN EUROPE, Royal Central School for Speech and Drama and Goethe Institute, London
2017 WHEN THEATRE MEETS DEVISING OR COLLECTIVE CREATION, University of Art, Targu Mures (RO)
2016 REFLECTIONS PERFORMANCE AND PHILOSOPHY, University of Ljubljana (SLO)
2016 COMEDY AND CRITICAL THOUGHT, University of Kent (UK)
2016 BECKETT AND WORLD LITERATURE, University of Kent (UK)
2015 THIS THING CALLED ARTIST DEVELOPMENT at Ovalhouse Theatre, London
2014 BAKU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE CONFERENCE. Paper presented: Artist as Battering Ram and Collective Scepticism (AZB)
Training /Secondments
2018 BALTIC FORUM conference and festival program, DRAAMA festival Tartu, Estonia
2018 LIGHT AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP with Clod Ensemble, Eden Studios Berlin
2017 MIME BERLIN workshop with Eric Wilcox, Berlin.
2015 ACTION-ADVENTURE GAME LAB FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, Foreign Affairs Festival Berlin
2014 THEATRICAL REMINISCES 'MOBILE ACADEMY' WORKSHOPS at Terni Performing Arts Festival, (ITA)
2014 MASTERCLASS FOR VENICE BIENNALE COLLEGE with Mark Ravenhill 'Laughing at Ibsen' (ITA)
2014 WALLS SEPARATE WORLDS workshop, International Theatre Institute, Berlin
2009 NIDA short courses- Directing Masterclass 1 & 2, Stanislavsky, Melbourne (AU)
2007-08 B.A (Hons) in Arts (Cinema Studies), University of Melbourne
2006-07 Arts (Cinema Studies), Graduate Diploma, U.M
2002-06 Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communication), U.M
Teaching
2017 PERFORMING EUROPE’S NON-WITHDRAWAL, lecture/workshop, Cockpit Theatre, London
2016 PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP, (leader) weekend workshop, District Kunstverein Berlin
2015 THINC, (leader) week-long Critical Writing Workshop at Patos OFFiranje 11 (SRB)
2013 THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED (leader). Splash Theatre, Kiev (UKR)
Residency
2017 B5 STUDIO IN SITU RESIDENCY, Targu Mures (RO)
2013 IRAN PARADISE ART CENTRE residency with Ahmed Nadalian, Tehran and Hormuz Island (IRN)
Directing /Assistant Directing/Dramaturgy
2017 STAY (Director) at Theater Bonn, for German Environment Bureau at United Nations COP 23, with S. Hornung (GER)
2016 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (Dramaturg) for Hoax Theatre, Bathway Theatre Network London (UK)
2015-2016 DOUBLETHINK dir Alex Talamo, (Dramaturg) with Dig Collective, Melbourne Fringe, Footscray Arts Centre, PSI 2016 (AUS)
2015 CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE ACTION part of global theatre action for COP21 by No Passport (USA)
2015 ONE FACE, ONE VOICE; ONE HABIT AND TWO PERSONS (Director) for White Night Festival, Melbourne
2011 FOR A BETTER WORLD (Assistant Director) by R. Schimmelpfennig, dir. Daisy Noyes. Griffin Theatre Sydney
2010 BOSTON MARRIAGE (Director’s Attachment) by D. Mamet, dir. Aidan Fennessy. Melbourne Theatre Company
2010 LA TRAVIATA (Director’s Assistant) by Verdi, dir. Rachel McDonald. OZ Opera. Australian tour.
2010 SMUDGED (Director) by M. Twycross. Brisbane Festival and La Mama Melbourne
2008 MELBOURNE MODEL: THE MUSICAL (Director) by F. Stokes. Union Theatre, Melbourne
2007 L’AUSTRALIE (Director) by R. Pettifer with arrangements by B. Kiley. Melbourne Fringe
Monologues/Solo Performance
2018 THE EXCITEMENT OF LOSS: IS THERE A WAY OUT OF ENVIRONMENT?, performance lecture, Hafenplatz Berlin
2017 THE TRUMP CARD by Mike Daisey, Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft Ost, Berlin.
2015-16 ARTIST DEVELOPMENT by R.Pettifer. Atelier 35 Bucharest, PatosOFFiranje 11 Serbia, District Kunstwerein Berlin.
2015-16 THE ROMANIAN CLIMATE CHANGE OF INDONESIA by R. Pettifer, Bucharest Art Week, Faki Festival Zagreb,
PatosOFFiranje 11 Serbia, Warkop Lidahibu Yogyakarta (INO)
2014 END OF SPECIES by R.Pettifer, The Yard Theatre London, Ignite Festival Exeter, International Festival of Performance Cardiff,
Edinburgh Fringe (Summerhall/ASCUS), excerpt published in The Vernacularist, Depot Artspace (NZ)
2013-14 PEOPLE SPOKE by R. Pettifer. Bengkal Mime Theatre, Yogyakarta (INO), Carol 53 Bucharest, Wandering Hangar Festival
Ukraine, ODA Kosovo, Rainbow Garden Venice and Ballhaus Ost Berlin.
2012-13 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS by Mike Daisey. La Mama Theatre Melbourne, Old 505 Theatre Sydney,
Lorgean Theatre Bucharest.
2011 NO-SHOW by R Pettifer, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
 Public and Performance Art
2018 BIG DEMO with S Hornung, for ArtSpin, Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft OST Berlin
2017 RHEINSPRUNG with S Hornung, at Rhine River, Bonn (GER)
2017 BOUGHT AND SOLD with S Hornung, B5 Gallery Targu Mures, Timisoara Biennale, Magma Gallery Sfantu Gheorghe (RO)
2017 THE AMBASSADORS with S Hornung, Ex-Embassy Berlin
2013 EATING 100 EURO, Schenken als Problem (‘Gift as a Problem’) exhibition, Group Global, Berlin.
2013 MAUER BOTSCHAFT (‘Wall Embassy’), with Theatertreffen 50 Internationales Forum, with S. Hornung, Berlin.
2011 BRUNSWICK BEACH. Moreland Cultural Community Grant, Melbourne.
Acting (selected)
2017 NO WIN (film) directed by Xandra Popescu
2017 CHARLATANS (film) directed by Xandra Popescu
2016 ALCHEMIE DES NEUANFANG (‘Alchemy of New Beginning’) by S Hornung with K. Rittberger, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2016 NEXT YEAR IN JERUSELUM, documentary film, “Daniel”, Dir. Johnny Marowitz, (ISR)
2013 SOMETHING TO TRACK Sophiensaele, and Fabrikteater Moabit, Berlin
2013 TWO LOVE LETTERS, by League of Shadows, Kolkata (IND)