Career
She is best known for her performance as the evil drug baroness Ruth Ballinger in Prisoner in 1985. Davies acted in the film Malcolm alongside Colin Friels and John Hargreaves. From 1995 to 2007, she was the Dean of the School of Drama at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
As director
Moscow Maly Theatre, Old Times.
Wyndham"s Theatre West End, Old Times (with Julie Christie Leigh Lawson and Harriet Walter). Theatr Clywd, Old Times (with Julie Christie and Leigh Lawson)
Chichester Festival Theatre, Hedda Gabler (with Harriet Walter Nicholas Le Prevost and Phyllida Law),
Chichester Festival Theatre, Suzannah Andler (with Julie Christie)
Sydney Theatre Company, Three Days of Rain, A Month in the Country (Opera House), Old Times
Bell Shakespeare Company:, As You Like lieutenant (Opera House);
Belvoir Street Company B, Scenes from an Execution (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director)
State Theatre Company of South Australia, Room to Move
Playbox, Fool for Love
Victorian College of the Arts, The Rover, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Women Beware Women (Middleton/Barker), The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Lysistrata.
National Institute of Dramatic Art, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Electra; Mission Sarah Sampson.
Actor trainer performance advisor/consultant
Lindy Davies has developed an approach to performance: a process which codifies the art of transformation.
She has worked as a Performance Advisor/Consultant on many films including:
the Golden Globe Award for Best;
the National Board of Review Award for Best;
the Critics" Circle Award and the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lindy also worked with Julie Christie on Neverland and Troy. Sally Potter"s The Tango Lesson. Kenneth Branagh"s Hamlet with Julie Christie.
Dennis Potter"s Karaoke with Julie Christie.
Michael Whyte"s The Railway Stationman with Julie Christie. Pat O’Connor"s Fools of Fortune with Julie Christie.
Australia: includes Looking Foreign Alibrandi, Radiance, The Leaving of Liverpool, Talk, MDA
Davies has written an integrated curriculum for the training of the autonomous artist. She is writing a book on her approach to performance called The Autonomous Actor
Belvoir Street Company B, Scenes from an Execution (Galactea), (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best )
North.I.D.A. Company, Vassa, (Vassa) (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best )
State Theatre Company of South Australia, The Seagull (Arkadina) Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Martha), Wild Honey (Anna Petrovna).
Hunter Valley Theatre Company, Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Martha), Condor Award for Best Playbox, Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, (Frida), World is Made of Glass (Magda), Buried Child (Haley).
Rex Cramphorn"s Actor"s Development Stream, Antony and Cleopatra,(Cleopatra) Britannicus (Agrippina), Hamlet (Gertrude) Not Suitable for Adults (Kate). Louisiana Mama, Mishka and Nomagava.(Mishka)
The Pram Factory, Marvellous Melbourne. Marvellous Melbourne World War II
Chicago Chicago.
Don"s Party.
