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2023 MFA Directing Fernando De Miguel Fuertes
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Fernando De Miguel Fuertes

About Fernando

Fernando de Miguel Fuertes is a theatre and filmmaker from Mexico. With a social sciences educational background and extensive performing arts training, his industry experience ranges from classical Greek dramas to video game ads. Fernando’s coaching-oriented style has equipped children and adults with the skills and confidence to succeed in cross-cultural environments for more than a decade.
Before moving to Australia as a permanent resident in 2022, Fernando developed projects in Querétaro, Mexico City, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai. His career journey includes stints in policymaking; as interview prep coach; curriculum developer; event manager; drama teacher; documentary narrator; stage, film and voice actor; producer; playwright; and director. As a director Fernando has staged dozens of shows for different audiences in multiple formats, often combining genres and styles to question automatic associations and rethink the familiar.