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BIOGRAPHY:   

Born in the USA, Austin was whisked off to Great Britain as a young child, mastering the crafts of art, drama, stunts, and storytelling. Eventually graduated from Central St Martins College with a degree in Fine Art in conceptual installation storytelling, while training at Central School of Speech & Drama as an actor.

Going on to work with the likes of Daniel Bruhl and Kate Beckinsale on Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel, played the lead in award-winning short Carpool, won a Cannes Lion Award and FIAA Gold for Embrace Life (racking up over 24-million views on YouTube), portrayed Thomas Haddad in the Channel 4 9/11 docu-film Heroes of the 88th Floor, while also performing with Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s A Good Year and Ralph Fiennes in Julius Caesar at the Barbican, London.  

Austin then spent four summers working at the worlds biggest opera, Bregenzer Festpiel, Austria, on Andre Chenier and The Magic Flute as a stunt artist and fight director. Before being invited to the Royal Opera House as an action director on Keith Warner’s vision of Wagner’s epic The Ring Cycle. Staying on to teach on their Young Artist Programme, working on many main house productions over the next 6 years (as well as The Globe, Opera North and Glyndebourne). Eventually going on to be resident movement & action director at the LA Opera choreographing on Hansel & Gretel, Nabucco, Pearl Fishers, and instructing on their Young Artists Program, while also working on feature films & music videos; Ronin 47 with Keanu Reeves, Jump with Julia Michaels, Romans with Orlando Bloom and Netflix’s iBoy, Offbeat, and Allies to name a few.

In 2020 Austin went back to school with Curtis Brown Creative, London, focusing on creative writing, developmental editing, and pitching, before being asked to be the lead in a brave new production in San Fransisco called ‘Birds in the Moon’ aligned with The Broad Stage LA, Santa Fe Opera Festival and The New York Philharmonic, which began touring America in 2021. He was then awarded an Arts Council England grant as a developing producer and writer in 2021-22, invited to Dallas Opera 2022-23 to work on Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel and Das Rhiengold as Movement Director, Action Director and Assistant Director to Doug Finch and Tomer Zvulun.

2024 - 25 looks even more exciting having been invited to work on a ground breaking new film by artist Amartey Golding with the Scottish National Ballet, David Dawsons reimagining of Romeo and Juliet with Semperoper Ballett Dresden, and a brand new immersive West End reinvention of Alice in Wonderland by Les Enfant Terrible, as well as Creative Producer on a new play by Katherine Moran ‘Ruthless, the incredible and tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in the UK in 1955, which is in development for a West End run.