Xan Colman – Artistic Bio

Anglesea One Act Play Festival Adjudicator 2021

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Xan is an interdisciplinary artist, producer and performance maker based in Victoria’s western districts and active internationally. He works in a variety of contexts, from international festivals to micro-residencies, tertiary education to large state theatres, experimental performance platforms to post-conflict community development. Some highlights: Makhampom Theatre (Thailand), New Territories (UK), Fundaçion Valparaíso (ESP), West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (HK), Black Market International, Yokohama Otomatsuri (JN), Robert Wilson/Berliner Ensemble (DE), The Drama Review (US) and Chulalongkorn University Bangkok. Xan is an alumnus of the Asialink Leaders Program, a fellow of the International Theatre Institute (UNESCO), and is also the Artistic Director of contemporary performance company A is for Atlas. Xan’s decade-long social art practice DINING ROOM TALES, in which strangers are invited to the dinner table, to intimately share in the life, culture and practice of an artist over a communal meal they’ve designed for their audience, has travelled extensively in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Finland, Germany, the UK and Japan. > diningroomtales.com > aisforatlas.org.au