Eden Read

Eden's tap classes are energised and flowing, with an unashamed lean towards theatricality and fun. Attended regularly by working professionals, training students and social dancers, his open classes have a reputation for having a supportive, pressure-free, and welcoming environment. This teaching style coupled with clear, positive communication skills have made Eden an in-demand teacher at some of Australia’s best and most reputable performing arts institutions.

Eden has enjoyed an enduring, eclectic, and multi-disciplined career in the arts as a performer, creator, and educator. His experiences have traversed arenas, opera houses, theatres, cabaret venues, and fringe festivals. He has appeared professionally in musical theatre (Grease the Mega Musical, The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Hello, Dolly!, Sunset Boulevard), international dance tours (Spirit of the Dance), and worked extensively for Opera Australia in more than a dozen productions as a dancer and actor.

Eden was Entertainment Manager, co-producer, and MC at Melbourne’s celebrated cabaret and vaudeville institution Red Bennies, is a feature performer and choreographer for Raconteur Productions, and an ongoing faculty member and MC for the Australian Tap Dance festival.

He choreographed the award-winning, original Australian stage production The Marvellous Elephant Man – the Musical, and collaborated with comedian Jude Perl on the web series SugarHope Records and the premiere of Share House – the Musical at Melbourne’s Arts Centre.

Eden is a lecturer in dance at VCA (Music Theatre), Federation University (Arts Academy), and is a regular guest tutor at the National Institute of Circus Arts. He continues to teach, choreograph, direct, and write with a passion for creativity and performance, and holds a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts.