Dwayne Lawler

Dwayne Lawler was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied acting with legendary Australian actress Babette Stephens AM,MBE for seven years. According to the biography 'Never Upstaged: Babette Stephens, her life and times, he was her last acting student. In 2004, he played the eponymous character in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' at the New National Theatre, Tokyo. He trained in Butoh in Japan with Akaji Maro of Dairakudakan, Waguri Yukio, Mikami Kayo, Nakajima Natsu and Kobayashi Saga. He has a third-degree black belt in Shotokai Karate and studied Tate-do (Japanese stage sword combat) with Dai Mizuno. Dai Mizuno