ABOUT
The career of Gunduz Kalic centres on the renewal of acting as a vibrant, joyful and repeatably spontaneous activity.
Specialisms
As well as acting and directing, Prof Kalic's teaching and coaching specialisms include presentational performance for media, stand-up comedy for the actor, transcultural theatres, dramaturgy including play adaptation and devising, theatremaking for new audiences, artistic direction, degree and course design for higher education and train-the-trainer in leadership and management for Theatre and Performing Arts.
Coaching
Stage and screen professionals coached or taught by Gunduz Kalic or with whom he has collaborated include:
United Kingdom
Prof Kalic was founding Head of Drama at Bath Spa University, UK. There, he launched the performing arts (now acting) programme and multiple other courses. He also founded Full Tilt as the university’s theatre company, producing his adaptations of The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Hamlet and the opera Carmen — and garnering accolades in the UK, Canada, and the US.
Australia
Taking Liberties Theatre Company, based in Queensland, which Kalic founded and served as Artistic Director, specialised in bringing theatre as popular entertainment to non-theatregoing audiences and in performing political theatre at such venues as Australia’s Parliament House.
Prof Kalic has been a pioneer of Theatre as Education in Australia. The Australian Theatre As Education Project, which he founded and led, performed for and workshopped with tens of thousands of students parent and teachers in outback and provincial Australia.
Kalic was Course Director of Theatre Arts and Artistic Director of Territory North Theatre Company at (now) Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Prof Kalic also wrote op-ed articles for Australian mainstream newspapers and Adbusters. The Death of Reality is an example.
Canada and Netherlands
Kalic has been a visiting professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada (where he directed Terrorizm) and was a regular guest director at the Toneel Academie in Maastrict, Holland.
I have rarely seen a cast so dedicated, so hardworking, so effective… Included was a punk rock band which emphasised, disturbed, destroyed the illusion onstage. Obviously, they did not consider this just another gig….What Kalic and his group have given us is living theatre of the best kind… Don’t miss [Terrorizm]. In fact, try to see it several times - Lindy Severy, The Peak
United Kingdom
Co-Director of East 15 Acting School/Artistic Director of the Corbett Theatre, Kalic has been a leading trainer of stage professionals (including a number of stars and many journeymen and women) for the UK and Dutch stage and screen.
Turkey
In Turkey, Prof Kalic was a founder member of the Ankara Arts Theatre and performed regularly with the great Ulvi Uraz, star of Turkish Film and Theatre.
Archival Image: Gunduz Kalic and fellow artists perform the play The Hostage at Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu.