Dwayne Blackaller
Bio
Dwayne has worked as a professional actor, teacher, director and play-maker since 1995.
He is the co-creator of the devised pieces The Physics of Regret, Destinopolis, and The Acheri, and the author of the plays re/fraction, The Science of Fiction, Air Heart, Orofino and Sword Song. He is the co-writer of The Uncanny Valley, Narwhal! Unicorn Of The Sea, A Nighttime Survival Guide, and Rabbit/Moon, with Matthew Cameron Clark, and Maggie Lumiere and The Ghost Train, with Tracy Sunderland. Most recently, he's been working on movies and screenplays including the short film Dust, co-written with Cody Gittings and Matthew Cameron Clark. Dust won the 1 Potato Short Screenplay Award at the 2020 SunValley Film Festival. Current projects include a new series called Marlene Durango- Queen of the Rails and the development of a new role-playing game, Dead West.
He has a passion for teaching young performers and has worked as an acting teacher for Boise Contemporary Theater, The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Eagle Performing Arts Center, College of Idaho, and the Ohio State University as well as teaching writing workshops for public schools and universities, the Idaho Writers Guild, and The Writers at Harriman Summer Camp. In 2011, Dwayne created the Theater Lab program, which teaches students how to devise their own plays and tell stories that are truly contemporary, truthful and compelling.
Dwayne has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York, and specializes in teaching Viewpoints and Suzuki training for actors.
He was the Associate Artistic Director at Boise Contemporary Theater, and Artistic Director of Whistling in the Dark Theater Co. Dwayne earned his BA in writing at Boise State University and an MFA in acting at the Ohio State University with a focus on movement and devising new work.
He was also a puppeteer, sword fighter, and stilt-walker in Las Vegas.
In 2020, Dwayne added aviation to his list of joyful life experiences and is now working as a flight attendant and pursuing piloting in addition to his artistic career.
Dwayne has worked as a professional actor, teacher, director and play-maker since 1995.
He is the co-creator of the devised pieces The Physics of Regret, Destinopolis, and The Acheri, and the author of the plays re/fraction, The Science of Fiction, Air Heart, Orofino and Sword Song. He is the co-writer of The Uncanny Valley, Narwhal! Unicorn Of The Sea, A Nighttime Survival Guide, and Rabbit/Moon, with Matthew Cameron Clark, and Maggie Lumiere and The Ghost Train, with Tracy Sunderland. Most recently, he's been working on movies and screenplays including the short film Dust, co-written with Cody Gittings and Matthew Cameron Clark. Dust won the 1 Potato Short Screenplay Award at the 2020 SunValley Film Festival. Current projects include a new series called Marlene Durango- Queen of the Rails and the development of a new role-playing game, Dead West.
He has a passion for teaching young performers and has worked as an acting teacher for Boise Contemporary Theater, The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Eagle Performing Arts Center, College of Idaho, and the Ohio State University as well as teaching writing workshops for public schools and universities, the Idaho Writers Guild, and The Writers at Harriman Summer Camp. In 2011, Dwayne created the Theater Lab program, which teaches students how to devise their own plays and tell stories that are truly contemporary, truthful and compelling.
Dwayne has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York, and specializes in teaching Viewpoints and Suzuki training for actors.
He was the Associate Artistic Director at Boise Contemporary Theater, and Artistic Director of Whistling in the Dark Theater Co. Dwayne earned his BA in writing at Boise State University and an MFA in acting at the Ohio State University with a focus on movement and devising new work.
He was also a puppeteer, sword fighter, and stilt-walker in Las Vegas.
In 2020, Dwayne added aviation to his list of joyful life experiences and is now working as a flight attendant and pursuing piloting in addition to his artistic career.
