About me
This page features my biography, an insight into my career developments and achievements. Some of my papers are available to download on my ‘Papers’ page.
CONTACT ME:
darrelyngunzburgart (at) gmail.com
darrelyn (at) Astrologos.co.uk
Biography
I began my working life as a fire-eater with a circus and spent the next decade working on feature films and television series. I completed the Women’s Training Course run by the Open Programme of The Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Melbourne and worked at Film Australia in Sydney as a writer-director on documentary films.
I left Film Australia to train at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), graduated from the Director’s Course in 1985 and worked as a playwright and theatre director until we emigrated to the UK in 2002. My plays have been produced by State Theatre SA, WA Theatre Co, Doppio Teatro, Salamanca Theatre, MYT, SYTE and Vitalstatistix, as well as on ABC Radio and have won several awards, including the Inaugural Samuel Weisberg Award (1989) for Hiccup, a Jewish comedy, and a 1991 Awgie for Behind The Beat, a play about young people and alcohol. Ten of my plays have been produced and four have been published. I have also been a recipient of Australia Council Grants and Fellowships, as well as a Writers Residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris in 1992.
I am also a professional consulting and teaching astrologer and hold an FAA Diploma. I taught astrology at TAFE (with Bernadette Brady) in 1989, and in 1990 we opened Astro Logos Ltd, a school dedicated to the education and qualification of practicing astrologers.
My books:
Life After Grief: an astrological guide to dealing with loss (The Wessex Astrologer, 2004).
AstroGraphology, the hidden link between your horoscope and your handwriting (The Wessex Astrologer, 2009).
Education:
BA (Hons), Open University, 2006.
My BA (Hons) dissertation was short-listed for the AAH Bulletin 2006 BA Dissertation Prize.
PhD, 2014, University of Bristol, graduating in 2014.
MA Fine Art Online, Falmouth University, 2026.
As Editor:
The FAA Journal (1986-87; 1991-93).
Dialogue: Newsletter of the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre (Sept 1989-Dec 1991).
Under Capricorn: An Anthology of Australian Astrology (1990).
Lowdown Magazine: Youth Performing Arts in Australia (1993).
Special Issues of the Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JSRNC), 7.4 (2013) and 13.1 (2019).
The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives (Equinox Publishing, 2016).
Space, Place, and Religious Landscapes: Living Mountains (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).
Get in touch
If you would like to speak to me about any of the publications or work on this website please get in touch.
You can also contact me on Facebook.
Darrelyn Gunzburg on Sark, May 2024.