Valerie Berry

Valerie Berry is an actor, performance maker, and emerging director. Throughout her practice, she has focused on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes. She has worked with, CAAP for Sydney Festival and Asia Topa, 2020 (Double Delicious), Yana Taylor (Leading is Following is Leading, Liveworks Festival 2020), National Theatre of Parramatta (Swallow, 2016), and Directed (Let Me Know When You Get Home, 2021), CuriousWorks (one of the mentors for the Beyond Refuge Program), Polyglot Theatre (Paper Planet: Sydney and Norway), Theatre Kantanka, Urban Theatre Projects, Belvoir, Branch Nebula, Performance Space, Sydney Theatre Company, Performing Lines (Tour Germany and Adelaide Festival, Ur/Faust; and National tour of The Folding Wife).

In Adelaide, Valerie has worked with, ActNow Theatre as a facilitator, lead artist, and performer of Theatre of the Global Majority, and wrote and performed in the Decameron 2.0 project; Cynthia Schwertsik (In My Name); Vitalstatistix (Game of I-Lands) Adhocracy 2020 and (Border Crossers) Adhocracy 2017; and with OSCA for the SUE Project.

Valerie is the co-ordinator for ActNow’s Theatre of the Global Majority program.