Yaron Lifschitz
Artistic Director of Circa, Yaron Lifschitz is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, University of Queensland and National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) where he was the youngest director ever accepted into its prestigious graduate director’s course. Since graduating, Yaron has directed over 60 productions including large-scale events, opera, theatre, physical theatre and circus. His work has been seen in 39 countries, across six continents by over one million people.
He was founding Artistic Director of the Australian Museum’s Theatre Unit, Head Tutor in Directing at Australian Theatre for Young People and has been a regular guest tutor in directing at NIDA since 1995. He is currently Artistic Director and CEO of Circa.
With Circa, Yaron has created works such as “by the light of stars that are no longer…”, “CIRCA”, “Wunderkammer”, “How Like an Angel”, “S”, “Beyond”, “Opus”, “Carnival of the Animals”, “Il Ritorno”, “Humans”, and “One Beautiful Thing”. His recent works have been reviewed as being “stunning”, “exquisite” and “the standard to which all other circuses can aspire”. Yaron lives in Brisbane with his son, Oscar.
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