Cover photo: Shape of an Echo Video Work (2019) by Pippa Samaya
Anna Seymour is a Melbourne-based performing artist, dance maker and producer.
Anna, bi-lingual in Auslan and English, is a proud Deaf woman with a passion for her community, culture and language.
Completing a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) in 2012, she has worked for various companies and choreographers including Ballet Lab and KAGE.
Co- founder of The Delta Project, a dance company of Deaf and hearing performers. Productions include: Collisions (Deakin University Theatre, 2012) and Under My Skin, (Next Wave 2016, Arts House). The Delta Project is developing a new work in 2019 to be choreographed by Stephanie Lake.
Anna’s choreographic credits include; Distraction Society (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016) and SPIN (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018) receiving the Spirit of the Fringe Award.
Anna has worked as an actress for TV (ABC’s Get Krack!n), film and theatre. WithDeafferent Theatre she performed in Black is the Colour (Melbourne Fringe) earning her a Green Room Award nomination for Best Performer in Independent Theatre.
Anna collaborates widely with visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, theatre makers, musicians including her mural by Guido van Helten on the MPT building in Prahran exploring people’s relationship to architecture and public spaces.
Anna has spent time in residence in New York, Berlin and with SITUATE in Hobart.
Anna is currently working as Assistant Producer for the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival.