Dan Eady

Dan has recently relocated to New Zealand after nearly two and a half years living in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Dan produced videos for various publications such as SCMP and Zolima. He also directed fashion and music videos. In addition, he worked as an English Drama Teacher. As a character actor Dan has appeared in a number of Australian Television series such as 'Doctor, Doctor' and 'The God's of Wheat Street'. There are many productions he has collaborated on in various roles. He loves the creative process of filmmaking and experiencing it from multiple viewpoints. In Brisbane and Sydney Dan has been an initiator and facilitator of collectives focused on developing professional screen acting skills. Dan was raised on a small farm outside of Tenterfield in New South Wales. His mother was a florist and his father a Vietnam veteran, carpenter and farrier. He attended St Joseph's Convent primary school in Tenterfield and Downland's Secondary College in Toowoomba, Queensland. On leaving school Dan enlisted in the first intake year of the Hawke-Keating's RRF scheme, he completed basic training in Kapooka, Infantry Corps Training in Singleton, and alongside regular soldiers, the Reconnaissance Patrolman course in Enoggera, Brisbane. He received an award for marksmanship. Dan studied rural science at the University of New England, journalism at the Australian College of Journalism and acting at the University of Southern Queensland. He is a trade qualified mechanic. As a writer his first play, 'The Boy and the Goat', was semi-autobiographical and investigated the heightened suicide rates amongst children of Vietnam Veterans. Heavily influenced by the death of his brother, it was also based on research published in the 1997 Australian Vietnam Veteran Cohort Study. Internationally recognised photographer of the Vietnam War Tim Page provided images supporting issues raised in the script. It was nominated for a Matilda Award in 2005. From 2005 until 2008 he contributed as a literary critic to The Courier Mail, Queensland's largest newspaper and the third largest circulating daily in Australia (as at 2007). Eady worked extensively as an actor for the Queensland Arts Council, an organisation providing Australians access to arts regardless of their geographical location. In 2009 he appeared in the World Première stage adaptation of Andrew McGahan's Miles Franklin Award-winning novel, The White Earth. He played the role of Dudley at La Boite Theatre, Brisbane.