Valerie Berry is an actor, performance maker and theatre educator and has also worked in film, radio and television.Throughout her practice, she has focused on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes.
She has worked with, National Theatre of Parramatta (Swallow, 2016. Dir: Kate Champion), Cake Industries (Sydney Festival 2016, Robotronica Festival 2015/2017, Fun4Kids Festival 2017), Polyglot Theatre (Paper Planet: Sydney and Norway), Blacktown Arts Centre (Disaffected,2016), Theatre Kantanka, Urban Theatre Projects, Belvoir, Version 1.0, Branch Nebula, Performance Space, Sydney Theatre Company, Performing Lines (Tour Germany and Adelaide Festival, Ur/Faust; and National tour of The Folding Wife), Bell Shakespeare/Canute Productions (Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes), Campbelltown Arts Centre, and co- directed/facilitated Shopfront Theatre’s 2015 Junior Ensemble show, Chasing your Shadow (Shopfront 2015 and Way Out West Festival, 2016).
Currently, Valerie is one of the mentors for CuriousWork’s Beyond Refuge program and a casual facilitator for Beyond The Square, Access Program, Riverside Theatres.
Valerie has had an on going collaborative partnership with multimedia artists, Anino Shadowplay Collective (Manila) and Paschal Daantos Berry, since 2005: The Folding Wife; Within and Without; Arkipelago (Jakarta, Indonesia); Arkipelago2: Intima-sea (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), and currently working on a new project for Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival 2017 program, titled, This Here.Land.