Shondelle originally trained as a Theatre Practitioner at the University of Western Sydney with a major in intercultural performance. She went on to study acting with Ensemble Studios and completed her Masters of Directing at VCA, University of Melbourne, specialising in immersive theatre for neurologically and physically divergent audiences and their families. She also spent 20 years as an educator and support worker for people with neurological and physical divergency.
Shondelle’s work as an actor, choreographer, Intimacy director and educator over the past thirty years has ranged across mainstage and independent theatre companies and screen. She has worked with leading companies including Opera Australia, Gordon Frost, The Really Useful Company, NewTheatricals, Aquarius Films, Ensemble Theatre, Force Majeure and David Venn Productions. She has also worked with Mad March Hare Theatre Company, Redline Productions, Pacific Opera and Dinosaurus Productions.
Shondelle has also taught or led workshops for with the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Actors Centre Australia and JMC Academy.
She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity, Media, Entertainment Arts Alliance and is represented by Working Management.
Western Sydney artist, Shondelle, is an internationally accredited intimacy director, coordinator and pedagog, choreographer, performer, teaching artist, director and theatre Maker
She has worked with Australia's leading theatre companies including Opera Australia, Ensemble Theatre, Force Majeure, Pacific Opera, The Darlinghurst Theatre Company, David Venn Productions, Squabbalogic, Gordon Frost, Disney, The Really Useful Company, NewTheatricals, Mad March Hare Theatre Company and learning institutions such as the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Actors Centre Australia and JMC Academy.
Shondelle is passionate about the actor’s process when it comes to consent, advocacy and inclusion in sculpting vulnerable storytelling. She is focused on learning programs, rehearsal room and film set methodologies which are inclusive of artists with lived experiences of divergency and multicultural/ intercultural practices that can be provided to support artists, crew and creatives alike, within the industry.
Shondelle is a proud member of MEAA.
She lives and works on the lands of the Dharawal People.
