TIMELINE
19 November 1934 - 14 October 1993
- 1934 Brian Syron was born one of eight children in 1934 in the Sydney suburb of Balmain
- in 1960 he studied under the late Hayes Gordon who was a New York trained American actor/director.
- 1961 Brian left Australia to further pursue male modelling work in Europe with fashion houses such as Dior and Cardin.
- 1961 he had the honour of being the first Australian accepted into the legendary Stella Adler Studio in New York
- 1965 Charles Perkin's Freedom Ride had made international headlines
- 1967 Referendum had resulted in a dramatic groundswell of support for Aboriginal people.
- In 1968 Brian toured the Southern states of America playing in Atlanta, Georgia; Roenoke, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
- 1969 Syron had taught a group of urban Aboriginal actors to study Stanislavsky or acting from an Indigenous perspective.
- 1970 Syron joined the Old Tote Theatre in Kensington
- 1972 with workshops and acting classes held at the Black Theatre Arts & Cultural Centre in Redfern
- 1973 as a foundation member of the Peter Summerton Foundation Syron organised with his mentor Stella Adler to travel to Australia
- 1974 film Time to Dream angrily and eloquently denunciating a Northern Territory arts administrator.
- 1993 Brian Syron DIED
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