Tony Bittner-Collins
- Actor
- Music Artist
Tony Bittner-Collins was born in Santiago de Chile to Luisa Godoy, a housewife, and Victor Bittner, a shopkeeper. His youngest sister Francisca is a translator. He is of Chilean, Austrian, and Galician origin.
Tony is a self-taught actor who has played supporting roles and bit parts in Chilean and Scottish theatre, film, and music productions. Most recently, he played talent judge Azir on Drawn-In written and directed by Johanna Denke and Milton the minstrel on the 'The Canterbury Tales' adaptation for stage by Kirsty E. McIntyre at Edinburgh Acting School.
In 2019, he played a political demonstrator during Pinochet's dictatorship in 'Tengo Miedo Torero' (My Tender Matador) by director Rodrigo Sepúlveda based on Pedro Lemebel's novel. He has entertained audiences as Milton in 'Juego para Cuatro' (Game for Four) by Francisco Raynaud, Procopio in 'Veraneando en Zapallar' (Summer holiday in Zapallar) by Eduardo Valenzuela Olivos, the nosy neighbour in 'Levanto la Voz por mis Derechos' (Speaking up for my Rights) clown play by Valeska Urqueta, and young Shakespeare in early music concerts by The Broken Consort and Messa di Voce.
As an autodidact actor, Tony collaborated with director Cristián Molina on youth theatre performances in southern Chile as well as with visual artist Felipe Betancourt from 'Máquina de Artes' agency on many interdisciplinary emerging arts projects across the country. He has performed as a mime artist, clown, living statue, impersonator, and musician.
BEd (Hons) in TEFL, lecturer in Linguistics, Articulatory Phonetics and English Phonology. Tony has worked as an educator for over 15 years teaching English as a Foreign Language to young and adult learners in addition to coaching primary and secondary school teachers.
Tony studied modern flute at the conservatoire while attending university and later switched to the recorder and the renaissance/baroque flutes to perform early music repertoire with Chilean ensembles The Broken Consort and Messa di Voce. He is a current member of the Society of Recorder Players (Edinburgh branch) and the Edinburgh Recorder Ensemble conducted by Michael Graham. He has recently taken up the treble viol to create a solo show on Elizabethan and Jacobean music and poetry.
Tony married Ryan Collins in 2020. They met in Edinburgh in 2018 when Tony was touring around the UK after successfully completing a CELTA course in Cambridge.
Tony is a self-taught actor who has played supporting roles and bit parts in Chilean and Scottish theatre, film, and music productions. Most recently, he played talent judge Azir on Drawn-In written and directed by Johanna Denke and Milton the minstrel on the 'The Canterbury Tales' adaptation for stage by Kirsty E. McIntyre at Edinburgh Acting School.
In 2019, he played a political demonstrator during Pinochet's dictatorship in 'Tengo Miedo Torero' (My Tender Matador) by director Rodrigo Sepúlveda based on Pedro Lemebel's novel. He has entertained audiences as Milton in 'Juego para Cuatro' (Game for Four) by Francisco Raynaud, Procopio in 'Veraneando en Zapallar' (Summer holiday in Zapallar) by Eduardo Valenzuela Olivos, the nosy neighbour in 'Levanto la Voz por mis Derechos' (Speaking up for my Rights) clown play by Valeska Urqueta, and young Shakespeare in early music concerts by The Broken Consort and Messa di Voce.
As an autodidact actor, Tony collaborated with director Cristián Molina on youth theatre performances in southern Chile as well as with visual artist Felipe Betancourt from 'Máquina de Artes' agency on many interdisciplinary emerging arts projects across the country. He has performed as a mime artist, clown, living statue, impersonator, and musician.
BEd (Hons) in TEFL, lecturer in Linguistics, Articulatory Phonetics and English Phonology. Tony has worked as an educator for over 15 years teaching English as a Foreign Language to young and adult learners in addition to coaching primary and secondary school teachers.
Tony studied modern flute at the conservatoire while attending university and later switched to the recorder and the renaissance/baroque flutes to perform early music repertoire with Chilean ensembles The Broken Consort and Messa di Voce. He is a current member of the Society of Recorder Players (Edinburgh branch) and the Edinburgh Recorder Ensemble conducted by Michael Graham. He has recently taken up the treble viol to create a solo show on Elizabethan and Jacobean music and poetry.
Tony married Ryan Collins in 2020. They met in Edinburgh in 2018 when Tony was touring around the UK after successfully completing a CELTA course in Cambridge.