Glenn Elston
Theatre Director and Producer at The Australian Shakespeare Company - Melbourne, VIC, AU
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Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
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The Australian Shakespeare Company presents exciting, accessible, contemporary productions of Shakespeare, Children Classics, Musicals and other plays. The ASC does so in innovative and unique theatre performance forms.The company in its current form began life as Shakespeare Under the Stars in 1987 under the direction of Glenn Elston, who pioneered the experience of outdoor theatre in Australia. Glenn joined the Australian Shakespeare Company in 1998 as Artistic Director and Producer. He has since developed the company into Australia's largest independent theatre company.Over the last thirty-years Glenn's award winning annual outdoor productions of William Shakespeare's texts and The Wind in the Willows have played to over a million people within Australia.The Australian Shakespeare Company performs and tours from regional cities, to remote and outback settings. Performance spaces range from Melbourne and Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens to Kakadu National Park and Beswick Falls in the Northern Territory. Audiences include families, seniors, tourists, students and young professionals, all of whom experience the magic of outdoor performances with some of Australia's finest professional performers and creative artists.Although best known for performances in parks and gardens, the Australian Shakespeare Company has also created and continues to create extraordinary productions for a range of locations that are not only outdoors. Productions previously have been site specific and adapted for particular communities and occasions.In 2010 the company launched the Young Bards education programme for 7 to 18 year-olds. With this programme the Australian Shakespeare Company extends its vision to continue to develop exciting, contemporary theatre produced the way Shakespeare intended; unshackled from traditional constraints, accessible and above all entertaining for everyone.