Edith Podesta

Edith Podesta is a NIDA graduate in both acting (2000) and movement (2004). Her movement direction and choreography credits include The Flats for PACT Theatre, Così fan tutte for the Sydney Conservatorium, Animal Farm for Aha! Productions, The Fairy Queen for Pinchgut Opera and numerous productions for NIDA – Plasticine, Big Love, The Winter’s Tale and Icarus on the Floor of Heaven. She also devised and directed Underbelly, Left Side Numb and 78/60.

This year Edith has been movement director/choreographer on Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon (Sydney Festival), Troy’s House (La Mama at the Carlton Courthouse), Le Mariage forcé (Lycée Condorcet and Bread and Butter Theatre), To the Green Fields Beyond (Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company) and President Wilson in Paris (HIT Productions), as well as the MTV Australia Video Music Awards.

As an actor, Edith’s engagements have included Blue Italian, The Flats, 91% Are Happy, The Eumenides, Naked with a Blue Light (Short and Sweet Festival), Women of Troy (Belvoir Downstairs) and, most recently, Death in Venice for Opera Australia. Her television credits include All Saints, Blue Heelers, Fire Flies, Love My Way and Headland.

Bio 2005