Terence Crawford

Terence began his career in his home city of Newcastle in 1980. A NIDA graduate, his more recent stage credits include Romeo & Juliet, The Seagull, Hedda Gabler, Attempts on her Life, Speaking in Tongues and King Lear (State Theatre Co of SA), Welcome the Bright World (House of Sand), 1984 (GWB Entertainment), Hypochondriac (Brink Productions), and Blackbird (Flying Penguin Productions).

Terence’s film credits include The Unknown Man, Escape from Pretoria, The Babadook, A Month of Sundays, Boys in the Trees and Rabbit. His television credits include the international documentary Unsolved Cases: The JFK Assassination, Stateless, Clickbait, The Letdown, Stingers, All Saints and Home and Away.

As a playwright, Terence has had work produced by Griffin Theatre Company, New Theatre, Theatre of Image and Sydney Theatre Company and has had work produced on radio and television. His plays include Shondelle the Tiger, Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke, and Love’s Triumph.

Terence is among Australia’s most experienced and respected acting teachers. In 2005, Currency Press published Terence’s first book on acting, Trade Secrets, and in 2011 published his second, Dimensions of Acting: An Australian Approach.

Terence is the principal of Crawford Studio, an Adjunct Professor of Adelaide University’s J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. He achieved a Masters with a dissertation of Chekhov, and a PhD with an ethnography of theatre practices.

He is the principal songwriter for the band, Almost Evelyn, whose music can be heard on major online music platforms.

He has been a proud member of Equity since 1980.