Edwin Kemp Attrill is a theatre artist and activist from Adelaide, South Australia, who has received several awards for his contribution to community arts and cultural development.
His work is focused on interactive theatre techniques, community engagement, and social justice themes.
Under Kemp Attrill's role as Artistic Director, ActNow Theatre received multiple awards and federal and state funding.
[10] Attrill's roles on various projects with the company included as director and facilitator of interactive performance Responding to Racism, which received a South Australian Governor's Award for Multiculturalism,[12][13] as one of the executive producers and the director of photography of theatre/film COVID-19 response project Decameron 2.0,[14] and as co-director of co production with Taiwan's Very Theatre called Virtual Intimacy.
[15][16][17] In 2020 Kemp Attrill notified the ActNow Theatre Board that he would not be seeking to renew his contract, citing a focus on “the next stage of his career and professional development”, and leaving the role at the end of 2020.