Dr Corinna Di Niro

~ suspension of disbelief ~

Corinna is a mother, a wife, a feminist, a coffee drinker, a mask collector, a theatre-goer.

Corinna is a creative academic researcher-director-performer. In 2018, she received funding from the School of Creative Industries, UniSA for her project 'The Virtual Actor', which involves research into the possibilities of enhancing the audience experience through virtual reality in live stage shows. Her research involves collaboration with the virtual acting school in Amsterdam and virtual reality companies in Adelaide. Corinna also received funding from the Multicultural Education and Languages Committee to run her project 'Performing Commedia' in secondary schools during 2018-2019.

Corinna is a leading expert of the 16th century theatre genre Commedia dell'Arte. She has taught and/or performed this craft in Padua, London, Stockholm, Auckland and throughout Australia, and has produced three highly successful shows, iSize (2010), The Marriage of Flavio and Isabella (2012), and The Royal Bloodbath (2015). She is highly skilled in comic acting, physical theatre, characterisation, movement, voice, slapstick, mask technique, clown, devising theatre and improvisation. She completed her PhD in 2016 through the University of South Australia, for an artefact/exegesis about translating Commedia dell'Arte to suit a 21st century Australian context by using the Antonio Fava method. This was the first practice-led performing arts PhD for UniSA.

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