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Duncan Driver (he/him)

Duncan is an academic, educator, award-winning actor and occasional director. He carries a PhD in Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies from ANU and is an Associate Professor of Literary Education at the University of Canberra. Along with Jarrad West and Duncan Ley, Duncan Driver was a founding artistic director of Canberra’s acclaimed Everyman Theatre. He directed the company’s inaugural production of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (2008) and its subsequent productions of In Cold Light (2009), Richard III (2010), The Ides of March (2011), God (2012) and The Burning (2014), many of which contributed to Everyman’s numerous Critics’ Circle and CAT Awards.

For Everyman, he has acted in Latin! or Tobacco and Boys (2009), Richard III (2010), The Laramie Project (2010), Breaker Morant (2012), The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) (2013) and Home at the End (2013). Other acting credits include ‘First Voice’ in Under Milk Wood (Canberra Rep, 2013), ‘Demetrius’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Centrepiece, 2013) and ‘Reverend Hale’ in The Crucible (Canberra Rep, 2015). For Lakespeare and Co, Duncan played ‘Benedick’ in Much Ado About Nothing (2018), ‘Orsino’ in Twelfth Night (2019) and ‘Clarence’ in Richard III (2020). Duncan has twice won the Canberra Area Theatre Award for best actor in a leading role in a play: in 2007, for the role of ‘Richard Sherman’ in The Seven Year Itch and in 2009, for the role of ‘Dominic’ in Latin! or Tobacco and Boys. 

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