ABOUT
Lawrence is an Actor, Director, Teacher & Specialist Movement Director. (Fully Certified Fight and Intimacy Director)
MOVEMENT / FIGHT / INTIMACY
Lawrence has been working in movement, fight and intimacy direction across theatre, national opera and film/television for over 25 years. His work spans from National Opera and professional theatre, to West End productions, feature films and mainstream television.
Recent film work includes Fight and Stunt Coordinator for Riz Ahmed's film "Mogul Mowgli" & upcoming feature film "Dali" with Palm Haven Studios LA, showcasing extensive intimacy and fight work. Other mainstream credits include Disney’s “Cinderella” (Kenneth Branagh) “Cockneys vs Zombies” and “Misfits” (Channel 4).
Lawrence is also currently a resident movement lecture at East 15 acting school specialising in intimacy and violence, and providing movement direction as well as safety coordination on in-house productions of both theatre and film.
DIRECTING
Lawrences directing credits include - Rabbit Hole, Dinner With Friends & Richard III (Front Foot), Street Songs & The Break-up Autopsy (Square Jaw), Random Acts Of Shakespeare (Bath Literary Festival), Doubt (Newtown Theatre, Sydney), On The Ropes (Theatre Delicatessen), Domestic (Seymour Centre, Sydney), Momentum (Old Red Lion Theatre), The Show Girl (ACP Theatre), Mother Figure (Simply Theatre, Switzerland), Think Big (Newtown Theatre, Sydney), Table Top (St George Auditorium Kogarah), The Person I Once Was (Australian Institute of Music), Busted (KC Ensemble), and Earnie’s Incredible Illusions (Simply Theatre, Switzerland)
PERFORMANCE
As an actor & singer, Lawrence has worked professionally across Australia, the UK and Europe with a wide range of theatre companies as well as in film and television.
Theatre Credits Include: Violence & Son, (Standing ovation award Nom. - Fricative Theatre), The Life (Offie Nom. Best Musical - Southwark), South Pacific (Olivier Award Nom. - Barbican & UK Nat.Tour ATG Prod.), The Tempest (Shakespeare direct), Holding The Man (Trafalgar Studios), Clockmakers Daughter (Offie - Best Musical - Landor), The Threepenny Opera (QTC), King Lear (Quasimodo), & Hamlet (National Stage Co. Aus.)
Film/Tv Includes: Home & Away, Misfits, Water Rats, All Saints, Rise of The Krays, Once Upon A Time In London, Cinderella (Disney) Double The Fist Series 1 & 2 (ABC Aust.)
TEACHING
Lawrence has and continues to teach acting, movement and performance at various performing arts academies such as East 15, Identity School of Acting, Rose Bruford, the Drama Centre, and now also runs his own private Meisner and Grotowski based training practice in London.
