Former Flinders Drama Centre lecturer Michael Fuller has been honoured by the Adelaide Critics’ Circle with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr Fuller’s position at Flinders was part of an extensive career in theatre that included teaching at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts and work as a choreographer for the Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Theatre for Young People and as an actor/choreographer for The Sydney Theatre of The Deaf.  Following his arrival in Adelaide in 1977, he also worked as an actor/choreographer for the State Theatre Company and Troupe Theatre.  He has choreographed for State Opera, SA Film Corp, Patch Theatre Company, Doppio Teatro and Vitalstatistix, as well as for school productions.

In accepting the award on Mr Fuller’s behalf due to illness, Professor Emeritus Michael Morley reflected on his extraordinary talent, professionalism and dedication as a choreographer, movement teacher and fight instructor.

Professor Morley also read out a tribute from Australian actor Susan Lyons, now living and working in New York, who said of Mr Fuller: “…he made all of us better than we could have been without him. Never pretentious, always wanting the best from us and for us.

“It’s so wonderful that a man who has given others so much and yet remained so modest should be recognised by the Adelaide Critics’ Circle.”