She/Her
MFA (Directing)
Tait de Lorenzo is a stage and screen director with a practice in new and multidisciplinary performance, and the director of independent theatre company KUNST.
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Tait’s stage direction and development credits include work for Belvoir, NIDA, Griffin, The Old 505, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, AFTT, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and Brand X.
Tait has an extensive list of screen production credits and works as a commercial director and director's assistant. Her debut documentary Untucked was the recipient of Best Documentary at The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Film Festival Los Angeles in 2015.
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Tait's credits as an associate, assistant and resident director include; The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group, Kindred Partners & Sydney Theatre Company), No Pay? No Way! (Sydney Theatre Company), Blithe Spirit (Sydney Theatre Company), Triple X (Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre), Ah, Tuzenbach (NIDA) and pool no water (NIDA).
Tait has curated event programmes for Kaldor Public Art Projects, The Art Gallery of NSW, For Film’s Sake Festival and PACT Centre for Emerging Artists.
Tait's residencies and fellowships include; Freddie J Gibson Fellowship, NIDA 2023-24, Incubator Fellowship, Griffin Theatre Company 2021, Resident Curator, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists 2020 and Shut Down Residency, Belvoir 2020.
Tait is the associate director of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group, Kindred Partners and Sydney Theatre Company) which ran on London's West End at The Theatre Royal Haymarket until May 2024.
Tait teaches regularly at NIDA and AFTT.
TRAINING
MFA (Directing), National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) 2018
BA (Film & Television Production), JMC Academy 2016
