Tina is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Head of Physical Theatre and Movement at Long Island
University Post. A New York based international theatre artist from Australia, Tina works as an actor,
director, theatre maker and educator. Tina has trained extensively with The SITI Company, is a SITI
Company Associate and works her way across the United States, Australia, South America and Europe
each year.

As an independent theatre artist, Tina specializes in making work that fuses text, movement and music and
has performed in some of the leading Arts festivals in the world. She was Artistic Director of Australian
Company Chopt Logic for many years and was part of the Artistic team behind Miss Julia, a bi-lingual
adaptation of Strindberg’s classic play, which premiered at the Iberoamericano Festival de Teatro de
Bogotá and has been performed in Festivals across Colombia, Italy, the United States and Spain. She
created the title role of Mata Hari, in the interdisciplinary opera of the same name, which premiered in the
2017 Prototype Festival in NYC and had a subsequent season for Westedge Opera in San Francisco. Her
work has been performed in Festivals and theatres worldwide including La Mama NYC, the Napoli
International Arts Festival, the Iberoamericano Festival de Cádiz in Spain, Steppenwolf Theatre, the
Manizales International Arts Festival, The Singapore Fringe and the Australian Festival for Young People
to name a few. She has worked for companies including Spain’s La Fura dels Baus, the English National
Opera, SITI Company, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall and The
Brooklyn Philharmonic. Tina played Lady Macbeth for Southwest Shakespeare, was a cast member of
Punchdrunk’s Obie Award Winning Sleep No More and appeared in The Event of a Thread with SITI
Company at The Park Avenue Armory. Tina has worked with The Metropolitan Opera on Wozzeck and
Lulu, both directed by William Kentridge and was part of the acting ensemble for Simon McBurney’s Die
Zauberflöte, also at The Metropolitan Opera and Palau de las Artes in Valencia Spain. Her one woman
show For Tender premiered in NYC in December 2023 and recently had a successful run at Teatro del
Garaje in Bogotá, Colombia. Most recently Tina worked with The Metropolitan Opera as principal
understudy to Emmy Award winning actress Sandra Oh on La Fille de Régiment.

Tina has taught at many institutions worldwide including Barnard College for Columbia School of the Arts,
NYU, Brown University, The Boston Conservatory, Atlantic Theatre School and many more institutions in
South America, the USA and Australia. Tina is a recipient of the Helpmann Academy emerging Director
and Mentorship Awards, recipient of a State Theatre Company of South Australia Assistant Director
Fellowship and NYFA Immigrant Artist Fellowship.