Gabrielle Metcalf is an arts educator, acting lecturer and intimacy coordinator. She holds a PhD in Leadership from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she lectures in Acting. She coordinates WAAPA’s educational programs that offer arts tuition to high school students in Music Theatre, Acting, Dance and Screen performance. She has devised and directed work at The Blue Room Theatre, PICA, Adelaide Fringe, Fringeworld Perth, Black Swan Theatre Company, The Performance Space, Notre Dame University, Curtin University and WAAPA. She is a co-founder of the China-Australia Cultural Link (CACL) a company that assisted with the training of Chinese teachers to be able to teach drama. This resulted in a series of books, Teaching Drama commissioned by Beijing Normal University and widely distributed to their schools to offer teachers lesson plans and methodologies to be able to teach drama. CACL also brought Chinese students to participate in Dance and Drama courses at WAAPA. Gabrielle has recently been the Intimacy Coordinator on the Binge series, The Twelve starring Sam Neil. She has a special interest in leadership pedagogies that support collaboration and the role that consent-based processes can play when we engage in the act of creating.

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