Richard James Allen Movies or Tv Shows (upto Nov 2026) - Watch Online

Richard James Allen is a multi-award-winning Australian filmmaker, known for his work as actor, director, writer, choreographer, and creative producer.ACTOR:Born in Australia, Richard James Allen has been performing professionally around the world as an actor, dancer and poet for more than 30 years. Trained as an actor in the methods of Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brooke, Pina Bausch and others, he has a wide dramatic, physical and vocal range. A writer himself, he has a profound respect for language and a rich understanding of the underlying dramatic shape of a scene. An experienced performer for stage and screen, he is creative and at ease with improvisation, fluid and generous in collaboration. A teacher of directing actors at Sydney Film School, he understands the nuances of different styles of acting, and has a precisely honed ability to respond to direction. Once described as being "Australia's most successful performance poet" (Nyk Sykes, Secretary, Poets Union, Inc.), he has a developed skill at holding an audience and a finely tuned sense of comic timing. Richard also has unique physical capabilities. An advanced yoga teacher and practitioner, with an additional track record as an acclaimed choreographer, he can easily pick up most physical skills, and unites a surprising flexibility and strength, speed and grace in his actions with trained dancer's ability to take physical direction and understand precise shape and movement sequencing in a short time. He also has a rich singing voice and rich understanding of musicality and rhythm having studied violin and piano and sung in the Sydney Opera House as a child.Richard James Allen is Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Physical TV Company in Sydney, and before that was Artistic Director of Tasdance in Launceston and That Was Fast in New York City. In addition to work with these companies, he has performed in films, plays, performance pieces, site specific works, dances and street theatre with numerous other international directors, writers, producers and choreographers. He has played many roles on film and on stage, including a soldier, a monk, a madman, a filmmaker, a magistrate, a murderer, a loyal son and a range of fathers, plus two very different kinds of angels. These productions have received critical acclaim in The New York Times and other leading publications, multiple awards and nominations, and been broadcast, screened and performed in 30 countries around the world. His performances have been describes as "extraordinary" (ArtsHub, Sydney), "terrifying" (The Village Voice, NYC), "ferociously watchable" (The Glasgow HeraldDIRECTOR AND CREATIVE PRODUCER:Director and Creative Producer of The Physical TV Company for almost 20 years, Richard James Allen has guided dozens of film projects from conception to completion. A three-time ATOM Award winning director and producer, his work has been commissioned and purchased for multiple broadcasts by ABC and SBS-TV, and picked up for broadcast in China, Europe and on cable TV in the USA. Richard's multi-award winning productions with Physical TV have travelled to over 250 film festivals or public screenings on five continents, including all of the most selective and prestigious dancefilm festivals in the world. These productions have garnered more than 55 nominations or awards and many of them have attracted grant funding or support through government or philanthropic arts funding bodies. In addition to his work as a director, producer, writer, actor and dancer for the screen, Richard has an extensive track record in creating work for the stage, has written nine published books of poetry and edited a national anthology of writing for performance. Richard won Chancellor's Award for Most Outstanding PhD Thesis for his doctorate at the University of Technology, Sydney, and graduated with First Class Honours for his B.A. at Sydney University. For more information, see the website of The Physical TV Company, which he co-directs with Dr Karen Pearlman: www.physicaltv.com.auCHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER:One of Australia's most versatile dance artists, who in his creative scope has been compared to Sir Robert Helpmann*, Artistic Director of The Physical TV Company Richard James Allen has combined a unique international career as a choreographer, director, writer, dancer, artistic director, producer, festival director, scholar and educator, with work screened, broadcast, published, or performed in thirty countries, and nominated for or winning major prizes in dance, filmmaking, screenwriting, playwriting, poetry, new media and scholarship. Richard has choreographed and directed for the stage (in a range of venues from nightclubs to mid-size theatres to large scale houses), for site specific and outdoor festival locations (including a stage floating on a lake, a travelling ferry, and a harbour side dance for motor cycles and an enormous crane), for film and television (from shorts to features to music videos), and for new media platforms (from mobile phones to machinima captured in 3D online immersive worlds to interactive installations).Frequently broadcast on ABC-TV, Richard's work has been critically acclaimed in "The New York Times", "The Village Voice", "The Glasgow Herald", "The Australian", "The Sydney Morning Herald" and RealTime", and supported in Australia by Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Film Commission, NSW Ministry for the Arts, NSW Film and Television Office, Critical Path and Ausdance NSW. His dances have been presented overseas by organisations such as The Kitchen (NYC), Danspace Project (NYC), National Performance Network (USA), British Arts Council (UK), The Place (London), and The Third Eye Centre (Glasgow). ). In addition to his own companies, Physical TV (Sydney) and earlier That Was Fast (New York and Sydney), Richard has created commissions for ABC-TV, SBS-TV, New England Computer Arts Association (Boston), The Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center (New York City), Colloquium Contemporary Dance Company (NYC), The Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne (France), Dance North (Townsville), Dirty Feet (Sydney) and Tasdance (Launceston), where he was also an Artistic Director.Dance film productions by Richard James Allen and Physical TV have screened at major screendance festivals worldwide including New York's Dance on Camera Festival, Cinedans in Amsterdam, Napolidanza in Naples, London's Dance on Screen and Constellation Change Festivals, Dance: Film in Edinburgh, dança em foco in Brazil, agite y sirva in Mexico, the International Video Dance Festival in France, and many others of equal calibre. They have won two ATOM awards, two Gold Medals for Excellence at the Park City Music Festival, two Australian Screen Composers Guild Awards, and Audience Choice Awards at the World of Women Film Festival and the Australian Poetry Festival. They been nominated for five Australian Dance Awards, prizes from the Dendy Awards for Short Australian Films, the Australian Screen Editors Guild, Australian Society of Cinematographers, Australian Screen Sound Guild, Reeldance and IMZ Dance Screen, and further ATOM and WOW Awards.Richard has been described as a "master of choreography, as well as of dance, and cinema" (Nova, Italy). His work "points the way to the possibilities that abound when collaboration occurs across forms and new technologies are integrated into the totality of the vision," Hunter Cordaiy, "RealTime".(* Associate Professor James Tulip, The University of Sydney) - IMDb Mini Biography By: The Physical TV Company

• > Go to Fan Zone - See Popular Genres, Streaming Availability & More
• > See full Movies List (with online streaming availability)