Tag: performing
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Staging Australian Women’s Lives
Staging Australian Women’s Lives: Theatre, Feminism and Socially Engaged Art is an ARC-funded research project that sees the stage is an ideal laboratory for crafting and rehearsing responses to social inequalities. Led by Professor Stacy Holman Jones, Professor Dan Harris, Associate Professor Alyson Campbell, Dr. Misha Myers and myself. The project draws attention to the […]
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HOMO FOMO
HOMO FOMO is a collaborative queer musical theatre work in progress by Ibrahim Halaçoğlu, Meta Cohen, Alyson Campbell and myself. Currently in the development stage with funding from Creative Victoria, HOMO FOMO seeks to champion queer joy. Drawing upon my past as a playwright and a more recent interest in neologisms honed through my blogsite mmmmyCorona, […]
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La Mama Pathways Program
I helped develop and deliver La Mama’s inaugural Pathways Program: a twelve-week development and mentoring program aimed at emerging and mid-career theatre artists living in Victoria. Alongside La Mama’s Indigenous producer, playwright Glenn Shea and playwright/dramaturg/educator Mari Lourey, I delivered 15 nuts-and-bolts weekly sessions on the craft of playwriting and contemporary theatre creation. February – […]
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On Loss: Public Re/write
Over two weekends, I delivered a two-part event in partnership with Melbourne Writer’s Festival 2019 and RMIT’s non/fictionLab. These workshops-with-a-twist were a chance to engage interested members of the community in my practice-led research into the bespoke sensorium as a site for what I call secular w/rites and re/w/rites of passage. Sessions were held in […]
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The Big Anxiety Festival
Co-directed by Renata Kokanovic and Jill Bennett, The Big Anxiety Festival addressed the key mental health issues of our time through a variety of arts-based experiences and encouraged conversation around mental health. My contribution came in the form of awkward conversations. I offered to do an audit and consult of any brave soul who requested […]