Xris Reardon, the Artistic Director of Third-Way Theatre, has a long interst in embodied knowings as a means of personal, sociopolitical liberation. This led to her involvement in community theatre and finally to train with David Diamond of Headlines Theatre, Canada, in 2004. From there Xris has gone on to co-facilitate/joke a Fourm theatre event with David, here in Australia, as well as host a number of National training events including: Rainbow of Desrie, Cops in the Head and Wildest Dream.

Since then, Xris has received a scholarship from Cardboard Citizens (UK) to train with Adrian Jackson (translatorr of Boal's seminal works) as well as Augusto Boal and his son Julian. This opporutnity conslidated Xris commitment to the use of the arsenal of techniques devised by BOAL, as well as her interest in Legisaltive Theatre.  Xris continues to practices the work both Nationally and Internationally.

In photo River Chandler (Theatreworks) David Diamond (Headlines Theatre) Xris Reardon (Third-Way Theatre) Tristan Castor-Pozo (TO practitioner Brazil)

Xris is committed to developing creative methods that can be applied to working towards social change. Her work has been influenced by other individuals who facilitate social spaces for restorative justice and is fuelled by a belief that conflict and struggle is reproduced and continued through cultural frames that are reinforced and maintained as absolute. Notwithstanding that privilege and capacity can separate and disempower individuals as well as bring about conflict, real change requires that our actions, both that of the oppressed and of the oppressor, are understood as embedded in the ways that we have internalised dominant ideologies. These dominant ideologies impact us in ways of knowing and being and have enormous social and political costs on who we are, how we are and what we dream and can imagine is possible.