BIOGRAPHY:   

Early years: Born in America to artist and painter, Amy Spangler, before moving to the UK as a child, Austin started training in theatre, fine art, and stunts at eight years old, before graduating from Central St Martins with a degree in Fine Art, while also attending Central School of Speech & Drama as an actor, performing in his first professional play at the Barbican with Ralph Fiennes, Julius Caesar, directed by Deborah Warner. Going on to work with the likes of Daniel Bruhl and Kate Beckinsale on Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel, performing the lead role in award-winning short Carpool, winning a Cannes Lion Award and FIAA Gold for Embrace Life (racking up over 24-million views on YouTube), portrayed Thomas Haddad in the Channel 4 9/11 docu-film Heroes of the 88th Floor, while also acting alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s A Good Year.  

2011: He then spent four summers working at the world’s biggest opera house, Bregenzer Festpiel, Austria, on Andre Chenier and The Magic Flute as a stunt artist and fight director before being invited to the Royal Opera House as an action director on Keith Warner’s vision of Wagner’s epic The Ring Cycle. Staying on to teach on their Young Artist Programme while working on numerous main house productions over the next 6 years (as well as The Globe, Opera North and Glyndebourne). Eventually going on to be resident movement & action director at the LA Opera choreographing on Hansel & Gretel, Nabucco, Pearl Fishers, and instructing on their Young Artists Program, while also working on feature films & music videos; Ronin 47 with Keanu Reeves, Jump with Julia Michaels, Romans with Orlando Bloom and Netflix’s iBoy, Offbeat, and Allies to name a few.

2020: Austin went back to school during the pandemic attending Curtis Brown Creative in London, focusing on creative writing, developmental editing, and pitching, before being asked to be the lead in a brave new production in San Fransisco called Birds in the Moon aligned with The Broad Stage LA, Santa Fe Opera Festival and The New York Philharmonic, which began touring America in 2021. He was then awarded an Arts Council England grant as a developing producer and writer in 2021-22, as well as invited to Dallas Opera in 2022-23 to work on Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel and Das Rhiengold as Movement Director, Action Director, Intimacy Director, and Assistant Director to Doug Finch and Tomer Zvulun.

2024 - 25: Following that he was invited to work on a ground breaking new film by artist Amartey Golding with the Scottish National Ballet, David Dawsons reimagining of Romeo and Juliet with Semperoper Ballett, Dresden, and a brand new immersive West End reinvention of Alice in Wonderland by Les Enfant Terrible, as well as Creative Producer on a new play by Katherine Moran Ruthless, the incredible and tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in the UK in 1955, which is in development for a West End run.

2026 - 27: Looks even more exciting after working on Christopher Nolans epic The Odyssey with Mat Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Holland as part of the Special Action Marine Team, going on to work on The Wanted Man for Apple TV with Hugh Laurie as Special Action Riot Police, as well as Stunt Coordinating on an Adidas advert for SomeSuch, Hult for Anonymous Content, Pokemon for Universal Studios, and brand new music video Click Clack for soul jazz singer Raye & Polydor Records, all while studying full time on an Advanced English Literature Masters at Goldsmiths University.

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