andrei biziorek

acting teacher/director/acting coach

Experience

2010 - Present

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Acting teacher, movement teacher, director – BA Acting and MA Classcial Acting courses. Audition panellist.

2018 - Present

Drama Studio London

Acting tutor – Demidov Organic Acting Technique – BA Acting

2018 - Present

Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company

Acting tutor – Demidov technique, director, movement teacher.

2014- 2018

Guildford School of Acting

Acting tutor, director, audition panellist – BA Acting course.

2009 - 2010

East 15 Acting School

Acting, movement, embodied singing tutor on BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre.

2009 - 2010

Royal Holloway University of London

Associate Lecturer on the MA Physical Theatre course.

2009 - 2010

Brunel University

Acting tutor, director, Artist in Residence.

2006 - 2009

Theatre ZAR - Poland

Actor with theatre company based at the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.

2006

Edge Hill University

Lecturer in Drama and Physical Theatre – BA program

2005 - 2006

Bretton Hall, University of Leeds

Teaching Fellow on the BA Acting and BA Performance programs

Teaching/research areas

The Demidov Organic Acting Technique; the actor’s creative process; directing with the Demidov Technique; rhythm as a tool in actor training; polyphonic singing for actors; post-Grotowski approaches to actor training; Five Rhythms movement technique and the actor’s process

Education

2003

MA in Theatre Practice - University of Exeter - UK

1999

MA in Directing - National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney

1997

BA Hons (First Class) Theatre Studies - University of New South Wales, Sydney

directing

2019 : Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
The Cockpit Theatre, London
2019: The Lower Depths (Maxim Gorky)
Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company, London
2018: The Burial at Thebes (Seamus Heaney/Sophocles) –
Movement and Chorus Director, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA Classical Acting
2018: Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky/Hannan) – Guildford School of Acting
2016: Othello and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) – Guildford School of Acting
2016: Pains of Youth (Bruckner/Crimp) – Identity Drama School
2014: Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) – Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD
2014: Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) – Guildford School of Acting
2013: Ophelia Interrupted! (Devised) – Grotowski Institute and RCSSD
2012: Three Sisters (Chekhov) – RCSSD
2011: The Present of Things Past (Devised) – The Rag Factory, London.
2011: The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Peter Handke) – Brunel University.
2010: Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat (Mark Ravenhill) – Brunel University
2010: The Heretic Project (Devised) – Grotowski Institute, Poland.
2009: The Runners (Devised) – RCSSD; Shunt Vaults, London.
2005: Dance of the Hungry Ghosts (Devised) – Seymour Centre, Sydney.
2004: Notes from the Underworld (Devised) – Seymour Centre, Sydney.
2002: Yurodivy (The Holy Fool) (Devised) – Seymour Centre, Sydney.
2001: Hamlet (Shakespeare) – Seymour Centre, Sydney.
2000: Do Dogs Dream of Angels? (Devised) – Tap Gallery, Sydney; Krakow International Festival, Poland.
1999: The Mother (Witkacy) – Kropka Theatre, Sydney.

practice

2019: Founded The Tribe Theatre Collective, London.

2017: Founded the London Demidov Studio.

2011 – 2014: Waving Not Drowning Theatre

2006 – 2009: Theatre ZAR, the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland

2001-05: Theatre Dwa Konie, resident company at the Seymour Theatre Centre, Sydney, Australia.

I lived and worked in Poland for many years with companies including Gardzienice, Song of the Goat Theatre and most recently with Theatre ZAR. I also trained with ZygmuntMolik, one of Grotowski’s main actors.