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Izabella joins Regina to talk about her play These Youths Be Protesting a finalist for the 2024 Martin Lysicrates playwriting award. Ferris Bueller's Day Off meets Don't Look Up, this new Australian play is a comedy about climate change, about the chaos of youth and how these intersect with the campaign trail of a federal election. The production will have its world premiere at Kings Cross Theatre (KXT) on Broadway, and will play from the 4th-19th of April. Izabella is a performer, writer, producer, and environmental activist. Since returning to Australia, Izabella produced and performed in sold-out hit “Much Ado About Nothing” at Flow Studios; had her play “FISH DOOF” published by Currency Press; was selected for ATYP's writing mentorship program Fresh Ink; and has toured Australia performing children's theatre.
CELEBRATING DANE CRAWFORDIn these special episodes, we celebrate the life of a person who has died via someone who loved them deeply - keeping the memory of them alive through shared recollections, joy and grief.These conversations can be intensely raw, and many tears are shed. Please move gently as you listen.TW: Grief, suicidal ideation.Dane Crawford was a sparkly-eyed, sweet natured man who loved his work in construction. He died suddenly in 2018 at 37 years of age. Celebrating Dane is his former partner Tommy Murphy - a celebrated playwright and screenwriter based in Sydney, where his recent stage adaptation of Nevil Shute's On The Beach premiered at Sydney Theatre Company. His earlier adaptation of Tim Conigrave's memoir Holding The Man plays regularly around the world, including a recent revival at Belvoir. Tommy won the National Theatre Award from the Australia Council in 2020 following his play Packer & Sons. Other theatre credits include Mark Colvin's Kidney, and Gwen in Purgatory (Belvoir St Theatre), Troy's House (SUDS, ATYP), Strangers in Between (Griffin Theatre Company, Trafalgar Studios West End), Blood Wedding (Royal and Derngate Northampton Theatre, UK), and Saturn's Return (Sydney Theatre Company). He created and was the Head Writer and Script Producer for the ABC original television series Significant Others (Fremantle, nominated for the 2023 Logie for Outstanding Drama). Tommy has also written episodes on The Twelve, Bloom, Fighting Season, The Devil's Playground and Offspring. Tommy wrote and was Associate Producer on the feature film Holding The Man (Goalpost Pictures) directed by Neil Armfield. He won the AWGIE Award for Best Writing in a Feature Film and Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Tommy was the recipient of the Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship (2016), and The Writers' Guild and Screen Australia Creators Program in Hollywood (2023). His other notable awards include winner of the 2022 AWGIE Award for Audio Fiction for his radio play Call You Back and winner of the N.S.W. Premier's Literary Awards for Best Play for both Holding The Man and Strangers In Between and the W.A. Premier's Prize for Gwen in Purgatory. He is currently developing a feature film. Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die is a podcast made by Marieke Hardy (IG @marieke_hardy).You can follow at IG @GoingToDiePodMusic by Lord Fascinator (IG @lordfascinator)Produced by Darren Scarce (IG @Dazz26)Video edits by Andy Nedelkovski (IG @AndyNeds)Artwork by Lauren Egan (IG @heylaurenegan)Photography by Eamon Leggett (IG @anxietyoptions)With thanks to Amelia Chappelow (IG @ameliachappelow)Camilla McKewen (IG @CamillaLucyLucy)and Rhys Graham (IG @RhysJGraham)Support the show via www.patreon.com/mariekehardy and drop an email to mariekehardyisgoingtodie@gmail.comWhilst acknowledging the privilege that comes with having the space to discuss death and mortality, we want to also recognise that discussing these topics can raise some wounds. Should you wish to seek extra support, please consider the following resources:https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/online-grief-support-groupshttps://www.grief.org.au/ga/ga/Support/Support_Groups.aspxhttps://www.headspace.com/meditation/griefhttps://www.mindful.org/a-10-minute-guided-meditation-for-working-with-grief/https://griefline.org.au/get-help/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Diana McLean has had a long career in TV, Film and Theatre and is best known by the public for her role of Vivienne Jeffries in the iconic TV Soap, The Young Doctors.On her return to Australia, after 16 years in UK and France, she appeared in many TV shows including, Water Rats, Murder Call, All Saints, Backberner, Number 96, Wonderland, and is still remembered for playing Bess O'Brien in Neighbours. Her miniseries credits include Ben Hall, The Norman Lindsay Series, Winner Takes All, and A Model Daughter. Theatre work has included; The Cold Child for Anthony Skuse at Griffin, Colder for Lachlan Philpot at Griffin, Love & Money at The Old Fitz, Three Sisters for Kate Retz, & Cry Havoc at ATYP, Julius Caesar for Anthony Skuse at The New, Other Desert Cities at The Ensemble Theatre (2015) and a national tour playing Florence Foster Jenkins in the play Glorious.Diana reprised her role of Vera in 4000 miles, twice in 2014 for which she was nominated as Best Leading Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Most recently Diana has appeared in the World Premiere of Joanna Erskine's new Australian play, Air (Old 505) and was part of the ensemble cast of The Humans at the Old Fitz.She joins STAGES for a long over-due catch up, and to reflect on a life-time telling stories.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au
Episode 2: ASSERTING COMPLEXITY. Vivian Nguyen & Jamie Tram Asian Australian playwright and actor Vivian Nguyen brings a wealth of stage experience. Her debut 'Thin Threads' was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award and 'Bugged' was published in ATYP's National Studio. Her plays 'Politics Aside' and 'a moment to love' debuted to acclaim at Melbourne Fringe, and was supported by Theatre Works and City of Melbourne . She was shortlisted for the Red Stitch INK Writing Program, and was a recipient of The Wheeler's Centre Hot Desk Fellowship for 2023. She's been commissioned by Malthouse Theatre and Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her most recent work is 'The Astonishing Comet Boombox' which was presented in collaboration with City of Maribyrnong for Melbourne Fringe Festival. . Find her on instagram @vivngyn Jamie Tram is a culture writer and screenwriter. They are the Small Screens Editor at The Big Issue, and their work can be found in Spectrum at The Age, Senses of Cinema, Filmink, and elsewhere. They've appeared on ABC's Art Works and Triple R's Primal Screen to gush about their favourite Hong Kong actors (amongst other less important topics). In 2022, they co-wrote the animated short Graveyard Shift, which premiered at MQFF Opening Night. They are an alumni of MIFF's Critics Campus and the VCA, where they've since returned to tutor screenwriting. They are also a 2023 Hot Desk Fellow. Find them on instagram @jamiecatchesthetram, and twitter @sameytram Credits: Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni) Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio) Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__) Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka) With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator. With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.
MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL 2023 Holly and Sasja came together to discuss Holly's event at the Melbourne Fringe Festival: MY QUEER SPIRITUAL ENTROP HOLLY ROWAN - MY QUEER SPIRITUAL ENTROPY TICKETDates 05 - 13 OctTime 7:30pm, 6:30pm (60 minutes)Venue TIC: SwanstonA spiritual antidote to dogma; for people who just want to be themselves.Sick of people telling you there's one way to live your life? Yeah, Holly too. Come and heal your soul and reclaim your right to be whoever you want to be with My Queer Spiritual Entropy. Full of originality, chaos and colour, this fresh-out-the-womb solo show from British non-binary performer Holly Rowan is a vibrant and daring mash-up of clown, Butoh, spoken word, physical theatre, dance and song... available as an in-person performance.About the artist: Instagram- @hollyrowanarts Holly is an emerging non-binary, multidisciplinary artist and performer whose work sits on the bridge of comedy and personal tragedy. Through a quirky combination of movement and voice, they share vulnerable and personal stories as a means to create conversation about difficult topics and connect people with the core of their humanity. This is their first Melbourne Fringe and debut performance in Australia. They have previously co-directed and performed in London Butoh Dance Company's ‘IRREVERSE' for Wandsworth Arts Fringe in 2022 and was Stage manager and Choreographer for Lancaster Offshoots productions at Edinburgh Fringe ‘Peter Rabbit & Other Tales' 2015 & ‘Hunchback' 2016. Holly is also a facilitator for Queer Space Youth at Drummond Street Services. ------------------------------- Sasja joined by Sophie Strykowski & Haz Lugsdin, another artists from the Melbourne Fringe Festival, who shared a discussion of their live performance titled "TWIN FLAME/ DEAD SPIT". TWIN FLAME/ DEAD SPIT TICKETDates 05 - 13 OctTime 7:00pm (60 minutes)Venue Mycelium StudiosTWIN FLAME/ DEAD SPIT is a live performance work investigating the ways in which we look at another to look at ourselves. With ten years of deep friendship and chosen kinship, performance makers Haz Lugsdin and Sophie Strykowski embark on an intergalactic voyage to understand their interlocking selves.We all have a gravitational pull. The sun, a chair, and you. I felt that tug. Who put me here? And why are you here too?Haz Lugsdin (They/He) is a trans performer who relishes in gusto, ego and innuendo. Sophie Strykowski (She/They) is an actor and performance maker whose work sparkles fearlessly with a joyous curiosity. Together, they pastiche comedy, performance art, and unbridled joy to glimpse the life practice of world-building together. About the Artists: Haz Lugsdin / Sophie Strykowski Instagram - @sp0repunk_ Haz Lugsdin (they/he) is a trans performer making on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. Haz's experience is in devised and collaborative work, rooted in comedy, pastiched with drag, performance art, movement, wordplay and absolute buggery. Haz is invested in developing non-binary ways of making that refuse rigid performance structures; as explored in their three latest 45 minute works; Rising Damp: A Sporepunk unearthing of a queer utopia at La Mama HQ (2022), The (Sour Glitch) Two-Step Refusal at The Flying Nun by Brand X (2021) and 101101001: Dude Where's My Gender at The Giant Dwarf (2020). As a writer, Haz has received mentorship with ATYP as part of National Studio (2020) and Fresh Ink (2021). Haz's work relishes in the illegible and incoherent; centering play and pleasure. He uses performance to make sense of himself and non-sense of the rest. They have a distinct modus operandi of gusto, ego, and innuendo. Sophie Strykowski (she/they) is a performance maker and actor from Gadigal, currently living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people. Their devised work reflects their positionality as a queer person, with the intention to dismantle and reimagine perceived truths with earnestness and delight. Sophie has worked across a range of independent and professional stages in Gadigal, including Griffin Theatre and ATYP in Intersection: Arrival (2019), Q Theatre in Originate (2020), Kings Cross Theatre [KXT] in Natives (2022) and Rogue Projects in Taz v. The Pleb (2023). Her work plays with form, combining elements of movement, comedy and experimental theater to ask big questions about the self, love, sexuality and connection. Sophie brings these questions to an audience with sparkling fearlessness and joyful curiosity. ------------------------------- Charaf Tartoussi joined Queering The Air as our third and final guest artist for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. A discussion between Sasja and Charaf about their captivating live performance titled “Aza” Aza: Stories of Grief in Diaspora TICKET Dates 18 - 22 OctTime 6:00pm, 5:00pm (50 minutes)Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council ChambersA vulnerable exploration of migrant and diasporic grief through storytelling.Aza (Arabic colloq: wake) is a powerful, nuanced portrait of migrant loss. Spoken word theater meets mourning ritual, it takes us on the grieving journeys of four artists as they grapple with what it means to lose a loved one back home.Meet Charaf, Parminder, Thabani and Farah. They all live in Naarm, all write poetry and all have had to grieve a family member from a homeland someplace else. Together, they embark on an honest voyage through a grief as ancestral as it is foreign. From longing and guilt, to curiosity and pride, they will venture into the breadth of emotion in their migrant and diasporic mourning.Aza is where they come together to be witnessed in the diversity in their grief. It is where they come together to heal, and to be healed.In 50 minutes of vulnerable and sincere storytelling, they will move through the motions of their loss and attempt to answer the question: how does grief change when it is experienced in the immigrant diaspora, and how does it stay the same? Music:Rehab by RihannaMusic by MadonnaYAMA LAYALI by David Vendetta feat Haifa Wehbe National Coming Out Day Event by Queerspace - Drummond Street Services(All LGBTQIA+ People Are Welcome)100 Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053Wednesday 11 October4pm - 7pm
Danny Ball is a proud Italian-Australian actor, producer, educator and writer/director. He graduated from NIDA in 2016. Born in Melbourne; during high school he developed an interest in filmmaking and literature as well as being a committed martial artist competing at a national level. He studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne where he became involved in student theatre; performing in plays as well as producing and directing his own work. He subsequently formed an independent theatre company and produced two new Australian works; The Apartment and Narcissus (Melbourne Fringe Festival) As an actor his work includes Blackrock, Macbeth, Mercury Fur, Concrete, Romeo & Juliet, The Serpent's Teeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Cleansed and The Italians. As playwright, his debut play, Adidas Girls, was produced by the Drama Studio and performed at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in 2021. His play, The Italians, received a production in Sydney in 2022 at Belvoir theatre as part of the 25A program. This production can be accessed for screening from www.australiantheatre.liveIn 2022 he directed Tom at the Farm at the Kings Cross Theatre, KXT.Danny also navigates his passion as an arts educator and tutor working for NIDA Open, ATYP, Bell Shakespeare and Parramatta Actors Centre - teaching young people and adults in a range of contexts from school holiday programs to Juvenile Justice Residencies.From May 5 to 25, Danny play's Ari in the adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au
Hello Cuties! The podcast is back with short snappy episodes with queer artists in celebration of Sydney World Pride!! First episode of season five is with Laneikka Denne and Ziggy Resnick where we chatted all things Feminazi, why queer stories are important, experiences being a queer creative and some fun rapid fire questions! So, grab a coffee and enjoy!! BIOS: Laneikka is a queer writer and actor from Western Sydney. At seventeen, Laneikka wrote DEAD SKIN which premiered at KXT to a sold-out season, published by Australian Plays and the winner of SA State Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Award. Laneikka's second play FEMINAZI premieres as part of Belvoir Theatre's Sydney World Pride Programming in 2023. Laneikka was the recipient of the Diversity Entertainment Creative Mentorship 2022, her play DEAD SKIN was performed in LA, to be developed into a feature film adaption of the play. Laneikka's short screenplay Oi was awarded Open Screenplay's Best Short Drama Award and is in pre-production in Sydney. Laneikka acted in the national tour of FOLLOW ME HOME with ATYP and is currently Sally in Netflix's ‘Wellmania'. Laneikka created THE MONOLOGUE COLLECTIVE where teenagers write monologues for teenagers to perform for the HSC to sold-out seasons and was nominated for Best Production for Young People at the Sydney Theatre Awards 2023. Young, queer humans are at the heart of all of Laneikka's work.A queer, Jewish, Greek, first generation “Australian” clown, Ziggy graduated from NIDA with a BFA (Acting) in 2020. During this time she worked with Leticia Caceres on SIX, Priscilla Jackman on Ibsen's Ghosts and Jim Sharman on Twelfth Night, and debuted the role of Amélie in the first Australian stage adaptation of the film Amélie (dir. Miranda Middleton). After graduating from NIDA, Ziggy debuted the role of Shoshana in A is for Apple by Jessica Bellamy at Griffin Theatre Company, worked as a clown on Opera Australia's Ernani, starred in a new Australian show Trash Pop Butterflies Dance Dance Paradise as part of Midsumma Festival and directed Much Stuff at Kings Cross Theatre. She will perform her new play Pear-Shaped in 2023 at TheatreWorks Melbourne. Ziggy is proud to be a member of the 2022/23 SheWrites Collective at TheatreWorks and the RIPE Development Program at Fruit Box Theatre.
This week on An Actor Survives, Emily chats to the incredible Nikita Waldron - having seen her onstage at Sydney Theatre Company the night before! If you are Sydney based, it's likely you have seen her on our stages, or know her from her recent Rebel Wilson Scholarship at ATYP. Support the show
We're back with a new episode of the Theatre Thoughts Podcast. On this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Creative Director Natalie Rose of Shopfront Arts Co Op to discuss the newest work of their Harness Ensemble, Where Shall We Meet? Natalie's time in theatre spans over 20 years and with a wealth of experience behind her she had more than enough theatre thoughts to satiate our appetite. Listen to Natalie discuss where the group POST and the Harness Ensemble came from, the importance of making theatre reflective of its audience, and where she wants to see Shopfront go in the future. Tickets for the performances of Where Shall We Meet at Shopfront Arts Co Op from 5th-9th October can be booked at shopfrontarts.org.au or through this link. Don't forget you can find all our episode information on our dedicated podcast site. Follow the link in this episode's description or follow us on Instagram @theatrethoughtsaus as well as our Youtube Channel. You can find all of our THEATRE THOUGHTS LINKS on our Linktree. ABOUT NATALIE Natalie Rose is one third of the performance collective POST, Creative Director at Shopfront Arts Co-op, and has been involved in Australia's Contemporary Arts scene for the past 22 years. Her work has been seen nationally and internationally at Sydney Festival, Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Cambridge Junction (UK) and Sydney Opera House. Most recently with POST, Oedipus Schmoedipus has toured to Santiago Chile, West Kowloon Cultural Precinct Authority in Hong Kong and in 2020 was to be showcased as a part of AsiaTOPA at Arts Centre Melbourne. Their 2017 Sydney Festival work Ich Nibber Dibber was remounted at Sydney Opera House and Malthouse Theatre. Nat has facilitated workshops for the past 22 years for young and emerging artists with and without disability. In 2022, she will continue to develop this work, direct Shopfront's Harness Ensemble in the third full-length work Where Shall We Meet? and devise a new work with Young People from Shopfront and ATYP titled The Lies We Were Told. Nat was most recently selected by the Australia Council for the Arts as a 2022 Arts Leader recipient. WHERE SHALL WE MEET? Where Shall We Meet is a compelling and powerful new performance from our Award Winning Harness Ensemble - a group of emerging artists with and without disability and mental health diagnosis. In this new work directed by Natalie Rose and Jane Phegan, the vibrant differences of life experience within the group have led to a compelling and powerful performance in which they celebrate otherness, welcome difference and break apart the boxes they have casually been squashed into. Exploring ideas of connection and the desperate things we will do to hold onto others, Where Shall We Meet tackles the messy process of connecting with others in an increasingly disconnected world. Do you know where you belong? PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS 01:22 - About Natalie 05:10 - Where did this idea come from? 11:25 - Making new Australian plays 14:36 - Where Shall We Meet? 19:58 - Where next for Shopfront? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emme Hoy joins Regina Botros to talk about her adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Emme Hoy was appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, one month before her adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – opened at Roslyn Packer Theatre. Hoy's relationship with STC began in 2017 when she became a member of the inaugural Emerging Writers Group; she then went on to write additional scenes for the Company's 2018 production of Saint Joan starring Golden Globe Award-winner Sarah Snook. Shortlisted for the 2019 Bruntwood Prize and recipient of the Belvoir's Philip Parson's Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, the 2020 NIDA STC Pathways Commissions and Melbourne Theatre Company's Writer in Residence Program, Emme completed her Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Performance at NIDA. Her original television series Nobody's Perfect was longlisted for the Australian Writers' Guild's prime time screenwriting competition, shortlisted in the ABC/AWG Laugh Out Loud competition, the Monte Miller Awards, and was a semifinalist in WeScreenplay's international television competition. In 2020 she won the AWG/Audible On Air Competition with her original series Left Behind. In 2017 Emme's play Extinction of the Learned Response was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award, the Griffin Award and the 2018 Theatre 503 Playwriting Award; her co-written play Bathory Begins was awarded the 2019 ATYP co-commission; whilst her original play Cry Havoc won the 2020 ATYP Foundation Commission. Emme's plays include: Salem (NIDA); Strangers (Bondi Feast); Five Year Plan (Silent Theatre); Saint Joan (Additional Text, Sydney Theatre Company); La Finta Giardiniera (Queensland Conservatorium), Extinction of the Learned Response (Belvoir's 25a); and Bathory Begins (ATYP, Q Theatre). In June 2022, Emme's play, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall will premiere at Sydney Theatre Company's Roslyn Packer Theatre. Emme currently has various projects in development, including commissions with Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company and ATYP, as well as an audio series with Audible. Emme also has original television shows in development with Disney+ and Clerkenwell Films, Moonriver TV, Firebird Films, Val TV and Jungle. She is a writer for Sally Wainwright's The Ballad Of Renegade Nell and Nautilus for Disney+; as well as The Jump – an upcoming Australian dark comedy for Stan and Sundance.
Kenneth Moraleda is an actor/director/writer/producer of Filipino descent. He started training at Australian Theatre for Young People before being accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art graduating with a Bachelor of Acting in 1995.As a performer his recent theatre credits include An Enemy of The People with Belvoir Street, and Kasama Kita for 25a, the Global Creatures national tour of Muriel's Wedding The Musical, Talk at the Sydney Theatre Company and Australian Graffiti– a debut play from Disapol Savetsila playing Boi.Other theatre credits include playing Banzai in Disney's The Lion King Musical under the direction of Julie Taymor, the National Theatre Of Great Britain and Global Creatures' production of War Horse, playing Kulygin in Sport for Jove's critically acclaimed Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, creating the role of Roger Chan in Nick Enright's A Man With Five Children, Hilary Bell's The White Divers of Broome, David Williamson's Cruise Control, the satirical comedy Australia Day by Jonathan Biggins and Yellow Moon-The Ballad of Leila and Lee directed by Susanna Dowling. His Philippine stage debut was with Repertory Philippines in the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play August: Osage County.His directing debut was an immersive theatrical and cinematic music show They Say She's Different written and starring Cecilia Low. After a showing at Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne, it was picked up by the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and was a highlight of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015 for a season at Gasworks receiving rave reviews.He was a leading artist in This Here Land. – an experimental performance part of Liveworks Experimental Arts Festival in October 2017 for Performance Space. He has several writing projects in development including One Hour No Oil co-written with Jordan Shea.Numerous television credits include Schapelle, East West 101, Maximum Choppage, Bondi Banquet, City Life, Water Rats, Wildside, White Collar Blue, City Homicide, Janet King and Bureau of Magical Things.Notable film roles include The Great Raid, Locusts and Arun in the iconic Australia comedy Lucky Miles which has won him the Best Actor Award at the Cinemanila International Film Festival. He was also in Dead Europe and lead the short films, Perfection by Jane Eakin and The Fence by Lucy Gaffy, Banana Boy by Steven Woodburn and Legacy by Josh Mawer.In December 2020, Kenneth co-founded the theatre company KWENTO alongside Jordan Shea and Jana Vass. The company seeks to create new Australian works, that challenge the norms of Australian society.In April they will premiere a new work titled ATE LOVIA by Jordan Shea which will be directed by Kenneth Moreleda.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Whooshkaa, Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au
In this week's episode, Tori and Eliza are joined by the hilarious, fabulously talented up and comer Katelin Koprivec, current cast member of "The Deb" with The Australian Theatre for Young People. Together they discuss making her professional debut, being a part of a new piece of impactful Australian music theatre, how she is recovering after the impact Covid-19 had on the arts industry, the changes being made in the industry and more! For more about Katelin and to book tickets to see The Deb check out:@katelinkoprivec InstagramTickets for The Deb at ATYP's Rebel TheatreLeave us a rate and review, and let us know what you'd love to hear in our next episode on our Instagram @ps.stagedoorpod or via our email at ps.stagedoor.podcast@gmail.comCreated, Edited and Produced by Victoria Bullard & Elizabeth Gunther Art by Catherine Gunther
Gabrielle Scawthorn joins us to perform Helena's soliloquy from the opening scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She talks about playing Helena, creating her own work, what it's like to audition with food poisoning and why her dream Shakespeare role may be an unconventional choice. Gabrielle Scawthorn is an actor and writer. She is a three-time Sydney Theatre Award nominee and appears as Helena in Bell Shakespeare's 2021 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her previous theatre credits include The Apologists at Omnibus Theatre in London; E-Baby and Blood Bank for the Ensemble Theatre; Stop Kiss at ATYP; The Village Bike at The Old Fitz and The Sound of Waiting for Darlinghurst Theatre. She is the host of the popular podcast Back From Reality which explores the world of reality television and the impact that it has on the lives of its participants. You can follow Gabrielle on Instagram @gjosca and listen to Back to Reality here. You can find out more about Bell Shakespeare's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream here.
Rachel and Heather talk about survival in this industry, both physically and mentally, and how we can approach survival on an individual level and as a collective industry. Rachel Chant is a theatre director and festival director of https://www.bondifestival.com.au/ (Bondi Festival). In 2020/21 she is the recipient of the Ensemble Theatre Sandra Bates Director's Award. A member of Melbourne Theatre Company's 2019 Women in Theatre Program, she has worked as director, script assessor and dramaturg for Playwriting Australia and as a guest director and teaching artist at NIDA, AIMDA and ATYP. Rachel was the Artistic Associate for the inaugural women's theatre festival, Festival Fatale, produced by Women in Theatre and Screen; was the resident dramaturg for Red Line Productions' ‘New Fitz' new writing program, and from 2013-2015 was Associate Director at Rock Surfers Theatre Company. Rachel has a Masters of Applied Theatre Studies from the University of New England. Recent projects include: Cybec Electric (Melbourne Theatre Company); Deoxyribo-Whatever Acid (Lysicrates Prize); Good Dog (Kings X Theatre x Green Door Theatre Company); Love (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Glengarry Glen Ross (NIDA); Intersection 2018: Chrysalis (ATYP @ Griffin); 2018 Griffin Award Readings (Griffin Theatre Company); Outposts Development Program (Playwriting Australia and Hothouse Theatre); The Village Bike (Old Fitz Theatre); Moth (ATYP); Leaves (Kings X Theatre); When the Rain Stops Falling (New Theatre); Decay (Old505 Theatre); Machine (Old505 Theatre); Nil By Sea (Site&Sound). As Assistant Director: Cosi (dir. Sarah Goodes; MTC + STC); Mortido (dir. Leticia Caceres; Belvoir + STCSA). Selected awards include Sydney Theatre Award nominations: Good Dog; Moth; The Village Bike. Broadway World Best Director Award: Leaves. Suzy Goes See's Best Direction: Love; When The Rain Stops Falling; GJ Borny Prize for exceptional ability in the areas of scholarship, research and production. Heather Mitchell is one of Australia's most respected actresses across film, television and theatre. Heather will next be seen in the SBS series THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS, ABC/BBC coproduction WAKEFIELD, Netflix feature BOSCH & ROCKIT, Del Kathryn Barton's debut feature BLAZE and on stage in PLAYING BEATIE BOW for the Sydney Theatre Company. She recently featured in the ABC series OPERATION BUFFALO, Network 10 series THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS, Foxtel series UPRIGHT alongside Tim Minchin, Network Seven's MS FISHER'S MODERN MURDER MYSTERIES and Rachel Ward's PALM BEACH alongside Richard E Grant, Bryan Brown and Sam Neill. Heather has an impressive list of television credits including Foxtel's highly popular series A PLACE TO CALL HOME, U.S. ABC series REEF BREAK, ABC series HARROW, ABC telemovie RIOT, Seven Network's MOLLY, Nine Network's POWER GAMES for which she received a 2014 AACTA Award nomination for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama, and the ABC telemovie JACK IRISH: BLACK TIDE. Her other television credits include the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks US miniseries THE PACIFIC, NEWTOWN'S LAW, JANET KING, MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES, A MODEL DAUGHTER: THE KILLING OF CAROLINE BYRNE, SATISFACTION, THE FALLS, BLUE WATER HIGH, THE SOCIETY MURDERS, HELL HAS HARBOUR VIEWS, ALL SAINTS, SPELLBINDER, CROWNIES, DANCE ACADEMY, SPIRITED, RAKE and UNDERBELLY: THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY. Heather's feature credits include Baz Luhrmann's THE GREAT GATSBY, Fred Schepisi's THE EYE OF THE STORM, Leon Ford's GRIFF THE INVISIBLE, David Barker's PIMPED, Dean Francis' DROWN, Jim Lounsbury's LOVE IS NOW, THE WEDDING PARTY which premiered at the 2010 Melbourne Film Festival, THREE BLIND MICE, Greg McLean's ROGUE, Cherie Nowlan's THANK GOD HE MET LIZZIE,...
Tommy joins Regina to talk about the last two decades in his award winning writing career. In 2020 Tommy Murphy received the National Theatre Prize from the Australia Council for the Arts. His most recent stage play was Packer & Sons broke box office records at Belvoir. Another recent work, Mark Colvin's Kidney is currently in development for a screen adaptation. Murphy's earlier stage adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoirs, Holding The Man, is regularly produced around the world with recent productions in Florence, Chicago, Nashville and London. His screenplay for Holding the Man, for which he was Associate Producer, won the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Netflix distributes the film globally. The stage play Holding the Man started at Griffin, directed by Murphy's regular collaborator David Berthold, before transferring multiple times across Australia culminating in a West End production. It won multiple awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Philip Parsons Award. Tommy was the youngest and only dual winner in consecutive years of the NSW Premier's Literary Award, having won for Strangers in Between at Griffin in 2005. Strangers in Between was revived in Melbourne, Sydney and on London's West End in 2018. Tommy's adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding formed part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. His play Gwen in Purgatory (Belvoir/La Boite) won the WA Premier's Award and the Richard Burton Prize. His other plays include Troy's House (Old Fitz/ATYP) and an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Massacre at Paris (ATYP). He is a graduate of NIDA's directing course, a former president of SUDS, a Patrick White Fellow at Sydney Theatre Company and a Sidney Myer Fellowship recipient. Tommy is the creator of an upcoming ABC TV series, having been on the writing teams for Foxtel's Fighting Season (Goalpost Pictures) and Devil's Playground (winner of the 2015 Logie for Most Outstanding Miniseries and AACTA Award for Best Miniseries).
Actor and musical theatre star Mia Morrissey talks with Australian theatre, film & TV royalty Ursula Yovich about the complicated process of grief and how you can harness it in your writing process and performances. Mia Morrissey is a film, TV and theatre actor whose credits include Bat Eyes (by Killing Ground director Damien Power), In Your Dreams (Channel 7), The Voices Project: Out Of Place (ATYP), The Voice (Channel 7, picked by Ricky Martin), Molly (Channel 7), Harrow (ABC), Alice in Slasherland (The Old Fitz theatre), Home and Away (Channel 7), RENT (Sydney Opera House) and produced and performed in her cabaret Anything You Can Do which brought together female performers to play roles originally written for men. Mia also signed on as an associate producer of Chips and Gravy's Screen Australia funded musical comedy series, She Becomes Her and received funding from The Hayes Theatre to complete her original musical In Loving Memory. Ursula Yovich is a singer, song-writer, actor, playwright and story teller. She grew up in Australian's Northern Territory, in Darwin and Maningrida. As an actor Ursula has worked for all of Australia's leading theatre companies, her performances and writing have been recognised with numerous awards and nominations, most recently four Helpmann Awards 2019 and four Green Room Awards 2020 for the rock musical, Barbara and The Camp Dogs, which she co-wrote with Alana Valentine.
In this weeks episode Tori and Eliza are joined by the Artistic Director of the Australian Theatre for Young People, Fraser Corfield! Together they discuss how Fraser found his way into the position as an artistic director, why young creatives play such an integral part in the future of theatre and how ATYP's initiatives are helping push the boundaries of theatre, especially for young people!For more about ATYP:Follow ATYP on Instagram @ATYP_TheatreVisit the ATYP website for more information on classes and upcoming showsResources and suggestions from the episode:- Mary Poppins The Musical Sydney May 2022- West Side Story Perth and Brisbane 2021- Alice's Adventures: A The Musical Workshop Sydney June 25th-26thLeave us a rate and review, and let us know what you’d love to hear in our next episode on our Instagram @ps.stagedoorpod or via our email at ps.stagedoor.podcast@gmail.comCreated, Edited and Produced by Victoria Bullard & Elizabeth Gunther Music by Catherine Gunther https://www.psstagedoorpodcast.com/
It's episode 23 which is the final interview for the year. Lucky last is Maddie Nixon. Maddie is a playwright, stage manager, producer, youth arts practitioner. We speak about her early days and her progression from occupation to occupation. We then narrow in on the Queensland premiers drama award and Maddie being a finalist within it. It was definitely an enjoyable, comfortable and at times personal interview. If you'd like to get in contact with the podcast then send an email to anactorandamic@gmail.com or swing a message to the Facebook page. Thank you so much for supporting the podcast. That will do it for interviews this year. I'll return from the dead around February sometime. ATYP: https://www.facebook.com/AustralianTheatreforYoungPeople/
This week we have a full pod of doctors and a bonus Word Dog, as the Word Docs are joined by playwrights Piri Eddy and Peter Beaglehole, and Piri's dog Murphy. We explore the experience of writing and producing plays, the life affirming joys of working with other humans, and the reasons why sometimes you just have to go a little nuts. There are power tools and secret ninjas, and Alex gets approximately 20% more manly. Come along and help us probe the vexed questions of playwrights the world over: Why theatre? Can we start a fight in the foyer? Why bring the world together when you can rip it apart? And when will the secret ninja come to our rescue? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we have a full pod of doctors and a bonus Word Dog, as the Word Docs are joined by playwrights Piri Eddy and Peter Beaglehole, and Piri's dog Murphy. We explore the experience of writing and producing plays, the life affirming joys of working with other humans, and the reasons why sometimes you just have to go a little nuts. There are power tools and secret ninjas, and Alex gets approximately 20% more manly. Come along and help us probe the vexed questions of playwrights the world over: Why theatre? Can we start a fight in the foyer? Why bring the world together when you can rip it apart? And when will the secret ninja come to our rescue? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we have a full pod of doctors and a bonus Word Dog, as the Word Docs are joined by playwrights Piri Eddy and Peter Beaglehole, and Piri's dog Murphy. We explore the experience of writing and producing plays, the life affirming joys of working with other humans, and the reasons why sometimes you just have to go a little nuts. There are power tools and secret ninjas, and Alex gets approximately 20% more manly. Come along and help us probe the vexed questions of playwrights the world over: Why theatre? Can we start a fight in the foyer? Why bring the world together when you can rip it apart? And when will the secret ninja come to our rescue? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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If you happened last year, to catch the phenomenon that is Fangirls, you are no doubt aware of the brilliance of Yve Blake. The musical, created by Yve, celebrated the cult of fandom in a most exhilarating and engaging story-telling. The show broke box-office records and guaranteed her place as a theatre-maker to watch.Yve is an award winning writer, composer and comedian. She is an alumna of the Royal Court Writers’ Programme and has completed residencies with Griffin Theatre, the ATYP National Studio, Old Vic New Voices, the Barbican, the National Theatre and Princeton University.Her debut play SUGAR SUGAR premiered in 2015, and Yve has also created several internationally touring solo shows, including the acclaimed THEN which played to sold out crowds at the Soho Theatre in London.She was the recipient of the 2016 Rebel Wilson Theatre-maker scholarship at ATYP and a member of the 2017 Belvoir Artists’ Workshop.Yve was one of just 17 speakers at TEDxSydney 2019, and has also spoken at the Women of the World Festival 2018 at London’s Southbank Centre.Yve is currently adapting Fangirls for the screen, co-writing a Screenplay for Aquarius Films, adapting an Aussie kids book into a musical, and developing a podcast musical about Mary Wollstonecraft.So much to talk about, so let’s get going in this awesome episode of Stages.The Stages podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, Whooshkaa and where all good podcasts are found.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.05.07.083006v1?rss=1 Authors: Labache, L., Mazoyer, B., Joliot, M., Crivello, F., Hesling, I., Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. Abstract: We applied a multitask multimodal hierarchical classification (MMHC) to 287 volunteers (150 left-handers) to establish different brain language hemispheric dominance patterns (LangDom). MMHC was based on inter- and intrahemispheric measures of the sentence core network (SENT_CORE): 1) task-induced asymmetries (ACTIV) while listening to, reading, and producing sentences compared to word lists; 2) resting-state degree connectivity (Rs_DC) and asymmetry; and 3) interhemispheric connectivity (Rs_mIHHC). Three LangDom were found, including two typical groups, one with higher (N=125) leftward ACTIV and Rs_DC asymmetries and lower Rs_mIHHC than the other (N=132). The third was an atypical group (ATYP, N=30, 25 left-handers), having rightward ACTIV during the 3 language tasks but high Rs_DC in both hemispheres and high Rs_mIHHC. ATYP LangDom relies on a left SENT_CORE wired for language by default with strong interhemispheric connections with their right SENT_CORE. This loose specialization was associated with 40% of dissociations, decreased anatomical asymmetries, and lower verbal memory. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
Amy Campbell is one of Australia’s most accomplished dance talents with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Her extensive list of credits as one of the country’s top choreographers include the Australian Premiere of the critically acclaimed Violet, for which she won the Broadway World Australia award for her work, ATYP’s sell out season of Spring Awakening, Side Show and Hispanic Attack for the Hayes Theatre (for which she was also the co-creator), the original Australian work Guilty Pleasures for Blue Saint Productions, Wicked for Packemin Productions, Dance Academy, The X Factor, ABC’s Giggle and Hoot and most recently Amy was assistant director on Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Porgy and Bess. Her clients include ABC, Commonwealth Bank, the Sci-Fi Channel and Deutsche Bank. She was assistant to award winning choreographer Kelley Abbey on Miracle City, Xanadu The Musical, Channel 10′s I Will Survive and Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s live performances and music video of All We Have. Amy’s theatre credits include dance captain and role cover in the Australian tour of Dirty Dancing, Fame The Musical, Saturday Night Fever, the world premiere of King Kong Live on Stage ,principal dancer in Opera Australia’s Carmen and most recently the Resident Choreographer of The Bodyguard Musical Australia. She has appeared in commercials for Sony, Vodafone, Coca Cola, Video Ezy, Sci-Fi Channel, Kmart and was an ambassador for Lorna Jane’s Active Living Campaign. Her other television credits include Everybody Dance Now, placing in the Top 3 on So You Think You Can Dance Australia Season 2, as well as appearing on The X Factor, The Nickelodeon Awards, TV Week Logie Awards, Australia’s Next Top Model, Australia’s Got Talent and The Biggest Loser. You can follow Amy on: insta: @missamycampbell web: https://missamycampbell.com/
Wednesday breakfast Rundown 6th of December. Presenters, Judith Peppard, and Patty Beggs7:00am: Introduction:7:10am ICAN, We all can Tim Wright is the Asia-Pacific director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joined us in the studio to update us on the international treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and ICAN's planes for 2018.7:25am Midsumma festival Dani Weber on the phone speaking about The Coco Butter Club opening Friday Jan 19 as part of the Midsumma Festival,Victoria's premier LGBTQIA+ cultural festival. 7:45am Australian Theater for Young People Amy Maiden joined us on the phone to talk about The report: Building mental wellness and agility through youth theater, that was published by the ATYP.8:00am Plans for US led security force in Syria Associate professor Mehmet Ozalp updates us on developments in Syria during 2017 and the US proposal for a border security force.8:15am Call to action on proposed deregulation of new GMO Tech Bob Phelps from Gene Ethics updates us on reviews of the regulations governing new genetic manipulation techniques. 8:30am End:Track ListThe Cactus Channel, Leech Mojo Juju, PsychoTomGirl, My Lovers
In this episode we talk about emerging artists and the spaces and programs that support them. We chat to James Nguyen about his project for the Vacant Room: 3 Year Residency program at PACT. Nat Rose, Clare Powell, Kieran Medway and Hannah Goodwin come in to discuss their ArtsLab presentations at Shopfront Arts Co-Op. Finally, we discuss ATYP's latest production 'Intersection' with co-writer Charles O'Grady and performer May Tran. Tracks by James Nguyen.
In this episode, we focus on the future of musical theatre in Australia. We visit rehearsals for the Australian Theatre for Young People's rehearsals for Spring Awakening and talk to some of the young cast. Three of the stars of We Will Rock You (who all starred in Hayes shows last year) tell us about combining commercial and independent roles. Director Jonathan Biggins and writer Ian Ferrington give us the low-down on new musical The Detective's Handbook, which premieres at the Hayes this month. And cabaret star Tom Sharah chooses Into The Woods for our regular feature '5 minutes on a favourite musical'.
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Not in Print: playwrights off script - on inspiration, process and theatre itself
Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn’t got the cash. And in a world of absent mothers and distant fathers, Miss Petchall battles to keep another year of students out of the ranks of the vanished. Tamara and Jasyn soon come to realise just how hard it can be to find your own rhythm when everyone is marching to the beat of a different drum.--Lachlan Philpott is a playwright, director and teacher. He graduated from the University of New South Wales, The Victorian College of the Arts and NIDA’s Playwrights Studio. He has previously been Artistic Director of Tantrum Theatre in Newcastle, writer-in-residence at Red Stitch in Melbourne and the Literary Associate at ATYP. His plays have been performed across Australia as well as Ireland, the UK and the USA. They include Air Torture, Bison, Bustown, Catapult, Colder, Due Monday, Running Under the Sprinkler and Truck Stop.
Ki is back from his wedding in Jamiaca. He and Rob talk about the culture of Jamaica, the music, the wedding, and of course sports. Second half of this show when combined with the first half...well, makes a whole show. So don't forget to listen to that one too. www.AtypicalSportsShow.com