Michael McCall

Communications and Media Program Coordinator; Discipline Coordinator Film and Screen Production, and Discipline Coordinator Theatre Studies

Email: michael.mccall@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0252

  • Biography

    Michael has worked in a professional capacity as a director, actor, producer, playwright, dramaturg, script editor, arts advocate and educator in stage, screen and arts education in Australia. He is a graduate of Curtin University, with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English, with Honours in Performance Studies, as well as being a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Acting Course. He has completed a Masters in film and television directing and screenwriting at the WA Screen Academy and has a PhD in Performing Arts from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

  • Teaching areas

    Communications and Media;
    Film and Screen Production;
    Theatre Arts;
    Performance Arts

  • Research expertise and supervision

    Michael has research interests across all forms of Film and Screen Production and Theatre.

  • Book chapters

    Approaches to Actor Training: International Perspectives, 1st edition, edited by John Freeman Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019

  • Original creative works

    I Am Here Now - a play (2018)

  • Live performances

    As the director:

    • WAAPA Acting: The Blind Giant is Dancing; 13; Enron
    • WAAPA Musical Theatre: The Wonderful World of Dissocia; Beach
    • University of Notre Dame: Honour
    • Perth Playhouse/Onward Production: The Deep Blue Sea
    • His Majesty's Theatre: The Mercy Seat; Maj Monologues
    • Perth Theatre Company: The Matchmaker
    • Shakespeare 400 Festival
    • Old Fitzroy/Tamarama Rock Surfers: Crazy Brave
    • French Woods Festival of Performing Arts, New York: Various
    • Hayman Theatre Co: The Bear; The Tempest; The Laramie Project; Richard III; A Doll's House;  Cosi;
    • Blue Room: Broken Colour, Missing, The Good Thief (also at Adelaide Fringe, Toronto and Winnipeg Fringes)

    As an actor:

    • Perth Festival 2018: The Second Woman
    • Company B Belvoir: What the Butler Saw

  • Recorded or rendered works

    As the screen director:

    • Tartan: ABCTV (also Producer)

    As an actor:

    • Tim Minchin's Upright (8-part series)
    • The Heights ABCTV/Matchbox
    • I Met a Girl
    • Red Dog: True Blue
    • Barrow
    • These Final Hours
    • The Shark Net
    • One Night Only

  • Professional affiliations

    Michael has been a board director for the Revelation International Film Festival since 2016, and has sat on the board of Barking Gecko Theatre Company and the Film and Television Institute (FTI) of WA as an elected member.

    Michael has been a proud Equity member since 2001, serving on the WA Equity committee (since 2002) and was Vice President of MEAA WA and Equity WA and has been an elected representative on the Equity National Performers Committee and the WA Arts Federation. He is currently an elected delegate of the MEAA/Equity National Performers Committee (2016-19) and sits on the National Equity Screen Committee (2018-19).

    Michael represented MEAA on the WA Arts Federation, and then the Chairs Committee of the WA Chamber of Arts and Culture (2010-13). He was Honorary Vice President of the Equity Actors’ Benevolent Guild. He is currently a member of the Directing and Actor chapters of AACTA/AFI.

    He was Australian Screen Directors Guild WA State representative. He has also served on the Screenwest Industry Association Committee and Courses Committee, as well as contributing to STAGES Script Development Funding Panel and on DCA Peer Assessment Panels. Michael was Director of STAGES, the WA Playwrights Consortium and sat on their Script Development Panelist Pool. In 2015, Michael was elected to the STAGES WA board until its closure in 2016.

  • Community engagement

    Judge at various competitions and festivals: Richard Burton Award for WAAPA; Mud and Saltwater Film Festival, Broome; Filmbites Screen Academy Awards.

  • Awards

    Nominee twice for Best Director WA Equity Awards
    Nominee for Best Actor Newcomer WA Equity Awards
    Nominee for Best Performance by an Actor, WA Screen Awards
    As Producer: Film Tartan nominated twice for Best Performance by an Actress