Brian Syron 1934 - 1993

• 19 November 1934- Born in the Sydney. 
• 1952 - Became a male model and started to learn acting at the Ensemble Theatre Company in Sydney.
• 1960- Studied under the late Hayes Gordon who was a New York trained American actor/director. 
• 1961- left Australia to further pursue male modelling work in Europe with fashion houses then moved to New York where he decided to resume acting. 
• 1961- Was the first Australian accepted into the legendary Stella Adler Studio in New   York. His fellow classmates included Robert de Niro and Warren Beatty.
• 1962- Studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London
• 1967- Co-found a Theater Company in Saratoga Springs, New York, tour as a director with the Boston/Herald Travellers Shakespeare Company, tour through the Appalachian Mountains and work with the Louisville Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati In the Park as well as productions in Ohio, New Jersey and Paducah, Kentucky. 
• 1968- Toured the Southern states of America playing in Atlanta, Georgia; Roenoke, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
• 1969- Returned to Australia, Sydney. Taught a group of urban Aboriginal actors to        study Stanislavsky or acting from an Indigenous perspective.
• 1970- Joined the Old Tote Theatre in Kensington, Sydney, where he was the first Indigenous Australia to work as a director in the mainstream Australian theater industry.
• 1973- Instigated The Artists' Group Theatre to moving to The Stables Theatre in Kings Cross.
• 1973- Invited to teach drama to The Resurgent Society inmates of Parramatta Gaol. 
• 1974- Seen in Bruce McGuinness' film Time to Dream angrily and eloquently denunciating a Northern Territory arts administrator. 
• 14 October 1993- Died in Sydney.

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