VCA Announces George Fairfax $15,000 Scholarship Winner

VCA Drama is proud to announce that actor Luke Mullins has been awarded the prestigious George Fairfax Memorial Award. 

The biannual award of $15,000 is open to graduates of the VCA School of Drama and is intended to “…assist and encourage a young artist in the development of their professional career in the theatre industry”. 

Since graduating from the VCA Bachelor of Dramatic Art in 2001, Luke has worked and toured with numerous theatre companies including Stuck Pigs Squealing, The Melbourne Theatre Company,  Blue Heelers (Seven Network) , MDA (ABCTV) and Uncle Semolina and Friends. 

His solo show Autobiography of Red, which he adapted from the novel of the same name by Anne Carson, is part of the Malthouse Theatre Spring Season from September 12 to 24.

Graduates of the VCA School of Drama are eligible to apply for the George Fairfax Award within 10 years of graduating.  Luke will use the award to develop two new performance works, one a collaboration with Canadian writer Anne Carson and the other a new sound based work with composer/sound designer Jethro Woodard. The scholarship will also allow him to undertake an internship with Richard Foreman at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York.

Previous winners of the scholarship include David Symons, Chris Bendall (artistic director of Theatre @ Risk) and Chris Kohn (director of Stuck Pigs Squealing).