BIO/CV | DramaShane

ABOUT

Shane Meiklejohn is from Brisbane, Queensland - the tropical, sunshine state of Australia.

After leaving school, Shane’s passion for photography earned him a cadetship as a press photographer with a rural Australian newspaper, where he completed his apprenticeship after four years of service. Later he broadened his media interests, as a production researcher for a local channel of a national TV network. Academia beckoned him once again and he returned to university to study journalism and theatre.

Seduced by the stage at university, he made Drama his career, teaching high school Drama in Queensland for many years in prestige boarding, single sex and co-educational schools before moving to Japan in 1998 to be a Drama/Theatre Teacher at Yokohama International School.

Shane has been involved in community and repertory theatre for over 20 years first in Australia and then overseas - acting, directing, stage managing and back stage work. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Media Studies; a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education (Drama) and a Master of Arts in Media Production (1st Class Honours) in the areas of scriptwriting and documentary production. Shane is presently looking into a PHD in Theatre Directing. He is a qualified Theatresports (Improv) Practitioner having been taught at the Loose Moose International Improvisation School (2001) by Keith Johnstone who wrote Impro for Storytellers and invented the improvised theatre games of Theatresports, which inspired the hit TV program, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

In 2013, he was fortunate to train in the Japanese Dance Theatre form of Butoh with the acclaimed group Dairakukadan under the mentorship of Akaji Maro at their Butoh Summer Intensive in Hakuba, Japan. Akaji Maro is both a traditional and modern accomplished stage and screen actor who recently appeared in the Quentin Tarantino feature, Kill Bill.

Shane was appointed Head of Drama at The British School in Colombo from 2016-2018 and then the Drama/Theatre Teacher & Director of the School Productions at Seoul International School in South Korea until July 2022. Today, he is teaching MYP Performing Arts & Design at AOBA Japan International School and continues to explore all facets of theatre within the cultural aspects of his international community.

Shane was also an IBDP Assistant Theatre Examiner from 2008-2016 and is accredited by the CIE to teach IGCSE Drama. He has a CertTESOL from Trinity College, London and is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader. Shane recently completed a certificate in the International Online Puppet Therapy Program with the Muñecoterapia/School of Puppet Therapy, Barcelona, Spain.

Read more about his film making here and his acting/directing here.

Shane in the news:

Return to the Forbidden Planet in Metropolis Magazine, Japan (2015)

Haunting of Hill House in the Yokohama Seasider Magazine, Japan (2016)

Enter The Intruder in The Daily News, Sri Lanka (2017)

Pygmalion Classic Comes Alive in The Daily News, Sri Lanka (2017)

The British School in Colombo Presents Anything Goes in The Times Online-Sunday Times, Sri Lanka (2018)

Taking Audiences Back in Time with Anything Goes - in Sunday Times, Sri Lanka (2018)

On this page, you can see Shane on Sri Lankan TV

talking about Anything Goes at the British School

in Colombo, TV1 Sri Lanka (2018)

Please view his LinkedIn Profile for his CV: