Actors Ink - Colin Herring

Colin Herring

Age Range:57 - 63 years
Hair:Black
Eyes:Blue
Height:183cm
Downloadable CV(PDF)

Education / Training

Flinders University

Bachelor of Arts in Drama, Media and Film Theory

2000

Southern Cross University

Bachelor of Indigenous Studies, Law, Culture and Health

2000

UniSA

 

 

TAFE

Post Graduate Cert of Applied Science-Natural Resource Management and strategic planning

 

Cert 4 Assessment and Workplace Training

2007

 

 

2004

Theatre

Theatre in Education           

Inma Community Workshop

Director and Performer

 1977-83

Festival Centre

Adelaide Festival of Arts

Peter Schumans Bread and Puppet Theatre-taught to walk on stilts as a puppeteer.

1976

Adelaide Town Hall

International Year of the Child

‘A Tribute to Youth”

Department for the Arts Chris Winzar and Lyn Amadio

1981 -Director

Festival Centre

Free Entertainment at the Festival Centre and Grand Opening of Mt Gambier Civic Centre-Royal performance

Andrew Bleby, Rob Bath  & Steve Brown, Community Arts Officers of the Festival Centre

1978-1983

Royal Easter Show

 

Human face of EPA recycling show for Waste Management Authority of NSW

Designer, writer and performer

1985-1988 (200 shows)

Convention Centre Darling Harbour

Demonstrating Sebel Furniture

 

Harbour

Designer, writer and performer

1989

Sydney Entertainment Centre

Johnny Young’s Talent School

Dancing on Stilts during Christmas Spectacular

1986

Sydney Opera House

Medee 17th Century French Opera

Supernumary

1989

Agricultural Shows and Festivals throughout Australia

Atmosphere, Magic Shows, Juggling, NSW, SA, NT, WA, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and New Caledonia

Featuring very tall stilts as Daddy Long Legs.

1978-2016 over 1000 appearances

Australia’s Wonderland

Theme Park, Sydney

Atmosphere/Stilts

1988/99

La Mamas Theatre

Bruno Knez’s Theatre in Hindmarsh SA

‘Wirinun the Rainmaker’ Artistic Director

1980

The Sydney Festival

Free entertainment in Hyde Park

Stilts/clown

1982

The Adelaide Fringe 2014

Poets outa work”

Performance Poetry Salisbury

2014

The Adelaide Fringe 2014

Little Spirit Workshops Glenelg Life Saving Clubs -

Jack and the Beanstalk, The Giant, Jack’s Mother,

2014 including Kadina Show.

Coober Pedy Opal Festival

Magic Show, children’s workshops with David Cronin,

Stilts, Circus Workshops, Magic, Fire

2015 (April) 100thYear celebration

Essential Talent

Various gigs around Adelaide

Stilts, spruiking, clown juggling, Santa, voice over, MC

2000-2016- 100s of gigs

International Sporting Events

Commonwealth Banks Cycling Classic X3, Rowing Marathon, Tour Down UnderX5, CricketX15

In Sydney 1984-91 Adelaide 2008-2016 Stilts

1984-2016

National Railway Museum

Thomas the Tank Engine & Circus Train comes to Town Port Adelaide

Stilts, Magic, Clown, Juggling & Gutter Cleaning

2011-2015

                                                                                                                              

Film   

A man, a snail and his Sunflowers

1993 Student Film

Writer Producer & Actor

1993

The corruption of Academis

1994 Student Film

Writer producer actor

1994

Love Story 2050

2008

Featured extra

2009

Television

Land of Hope

1984 released 1985

Mini series

extra

Vietnam

1985 released 1986

Mini series

extra

Anzac Girls

2014 released 2015

Mini series

extra

Holeproofs Underdaks

1987/1988

Commercial featuring very tall stilts (6metres)

Principal

West End Beer

1989

Commercial -John Cleese Character with John Swan and The Party Boys.

Principal

Toyota

1990

Clown/stilts in Circus

Featured Extra.

The Story Tellers

1989

‘John Laws World’

One of three storytellers

Simon Townshend’s Wonderworld

1984-1993

Interviewed and opening credits for 10 years

Featured

Voiceover

Elocution

Adelaide

Circa 1970

Lessons in studio

Radio

Diamonds International

Circa 1971

Male getting married

App

Domestic Violence Application

2016

Maths and Science School