Salinity Presents: Davion T. Brown

Hello.

My name's Davion Tynaris Brown.

I am a theater artist, a theater educator, and a theater researcher currently working in the United States.

I am from Australia, but I've been working here in the United States for about 15 years, again, as an artist, both in acting, directing, choreography, more recently now playwriting.

All different aspects of the theater I've touched as an artist, and it's quite literally been the majority of my adult life.

This is what I've done my entire adult life, and I think it's, will be the last thing that I do for the rest of my [laughs] life.

I'm also an educator holding an MFA in theatrical performance.

It's mostly about the standard.

How do you audition? How do you move about the stage, movement work, things like speaking with distinction, right? That kind of thing.

That's the important stuff to me as a theater artist.

But since grad school I've been engaging in a ton of theatrical research, which has led to several amazing projects for the past three years now going on four years.

So yeah, that's who I am in a nutshell.

And prior to your MFA, you also have another degree, right?

Indeed, yes.

I hold a PhD in astronomy.

And so why the jump from astronomy to acting?

The truth is that the stars have never made me any money.

Theater paid for my house, so that's why the jump.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Unfortunately, I mean, it's not that it's a bad thing that I moved away from astronomy.

It's more about I found myself in theater.

I found not just my voice, but, you know, who I am as a person in theater, and it's not like I don't still love astronomy.

I truly do.

I mean, I got a bloody doctorate in it, but, you know, it's more about what theater has done for me as a whole human as opposed to, oh, I just am educated in this one topic.