About

Alice Qin is a Melbourne based actor, director, and educator. She is currently the Artistic Associate at St Martins Youth Arts and an Acting Tutor at VCA. She loves art that’s necessary; whether that’s about serving a community that doesn’t often get to participate in performance, or excavating a point of view that’s urgent.

She most recently directed the premier production of Michele Lee’s Security, presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy (2022). She was the directing mentor on the 2020 Melbourne Fringe award winning 落叶归根 (Luò yè guī gēn) Getting Home.

As a performer, her Australian credits include How Do I Let You Die? (Bureau of Works/Arts House 2023), A Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Incredible Odds (Rawcus/Midsumma Festival, 2022) The Enlightenment of the Siddhartha Gautama Buddha and the Encounter with the Monkey King, Great Sage Equal of Heaven (Elbow Room, 2021), Mad As A Cute Snake (Theatre Works 2019), Atomic (Malthouse Theatre 2018/2019), Little Emperors (Malthouse Theatre 2017).

She was the assistant director on Lifespan of a Fact (Melbourne Theatre Company 2021) and Golden Shield (Melbourne Theatre Company 2019) and she was a participant in the MTC x CAAP directing initiative, as well as the directing placement for the Besen Family Artist Program at Malthouse theatre in 2021, working on Monsters with Matthew Lutton, and S. S. Metaphor with Sarah Giles.

She was previously based in New York, where she worked as an actor and an associate physical acting teacher at the Stella Adler Studio New York under the tutelage of Joan Evans. Theatre credits in New York include Is It already Dusk? A piece of physical theatre exploring trauma post 9/11 - (Herald Clurman Ensemble/Irondale Theatre, New York). Romeo and Juliet/Richard II/Love’s Labour’s Lost (all with the wonderful people at Hamlet Isn’t Dead).

She’s a performer/artist with Polyglot on two ongoing touring shows; Pram People and Bees. She has been a dinosaur with Erth Physical Visual, interacting with over a thousand children daily at the Melbourne Zoo for the 2019 Dino Park event, as well as being a host for Erth’s Dino Zoo show on their China tour in 2018