Education
University of New South Wales.
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Noel Hodda
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He is a graduate of The National Institute of Dramatic Art (National Institute on Drug Abuse) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His film appearances include Emoh Ruo, The Highest Honour (aka Heroes Of The Krait/Southern Cross), Silver City and The Bet, among others Hodda has written and staged numerous plays including The Secret House, Half Safe, Photographs, and On The Public Record.
His play Later was chosen to be workshopped at the prestigious Banff playRites Colony, Banff, Canada, in 2004.
Currently, he still acts, directs and teaches. He assesses plays for Page To Stage (a young Playwright"s organisation) and Parnassus" Den.
He has also been a script assessor for The Australia Council for The Arts, The Australian National Playwright"s Centre and Belvoir Street Theatre and has conducted acting and writing workshops for many organisations. He has been Artist-In-Residence at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, and has also taught Acting/Voice there on short-term appointments.
Achievements
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He was a long-standing narrator for Vision Australia (formerly The Royal Blind Society) and won the National Library Talking Book Award for his narration of the novel Cold Mountain. His dramaturgical work on the play Codgers by Don Reid contributed to that play winning the prestigious Rodney Seaborn Playwright"s Award in 2006.
Membership
Prior to attending National Institute on Drug Abuse he was a founding member of the Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and Project TYER, a Theatre In Education Company, for whom he also wrote and appeared in the play Strata Digger. He was a board member and Chairman of the Board of the Griffin Theatre Company and a member of that company"s Literary Committee.
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Australia