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curriculum vitae

2020
Theatre
  • Sleep Faster! Show Cat!, devised durational ensemble performance, VCA 2nd Yr New Work Project, October 2020
  • Breeders by Vanessa Jo Di Natale, script development and reading,  July 2020
  • Hurricane development, Artshouse, Jan 2020

2019
Theatre
  • Artist-in-Residence, Union House Theatre, University of Melbourne, March - September 2019
  • The Lonely Crowd, Union House Theatre , Melbourne 28 May -1 June 2019 - watch video
  • World Problems at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne 13-24 March 2019
2018
Theatre
  • We May Have to Choose at  Asociación Cultural Peruana Británica - Británico, Lima Peru 22-29 October 2018
  • Official Delegate, Oceania, Women's International Playwriting Conference, Santiago Chile 7-12 October 2018
  • Ode to Man at Brisbane Festival, Sep 2018
  • Theatre Oostblok International Artist In Residency, World Problems development, Amsterdam, August 2018
  • We May Have to Choose at Auckland Writers Festival, May 2018
  • Cultureland residency, Amsterdam and Starnmeer (the Netherlands), November 2017-January 2018
2017
Theatre
  • Wrote and Performed Ode to Man | Seasons: Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Mar-April);  Blue Room Theatre, Perth WA (April-May); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Sep) | Winner: Best Emerging Writer's Award (Melbourne Fringe) Nominee: Best Performance (Melb Fringe)
  • We May Have to Choose at Darwin Festival (Aug), Auckland Fringe and NZ Fringe (Wellington)(Feb-Mar) | Winner: Best Theatre (Auckland Fringe)
2016
Voice
  • Narrator for Carousel | Curated by Arie Rain Glorie | Melbourne Fringe Festival | September 2016 | documentation
  • Performer in Kill Climate Deniers | By Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan | Clan Analogue Collective | full album | media
Theatre
  • Development showing of Ode to Man | Dir. Prue Clark with video by Izumi Pennicott | Gertrude St Projection Festival | July 2016
  • Performed the role of TINA in Ground Control by Rachel Perks | Dir. Bridget Balodis | Next Wave Festival May 2016
  • We May Have to Choose at Perth Fringe and Brisbane Festival | Nominee: West Australian Arts Editor Award
  • Performed as Real Survivor and Mother in Triumph by Louris Van De Geer | Dir. Mark Pritchard | FortyFive Downstairs | 18-28 February | review
2015
Television and Screen
  • Performed in A+B | By BÄÄST (Izumi Pennicott) | Gertrude St Projection Festival
Theatre
  • Co-devised and performed in Gin Sister by Man With A Plan | Dir. Elizabeth Millington | Poppyseed Festival | review
  • Wrote and performed We May Have to Choose | Dir. Prue Clark, Mentor (Dramaturgy and Direction) Bagryana Popov | Adelaide, Edinburgh and Melbourne Fringe 2015 | more info | Nominee: 2015 Green Room Awards: Best Performance (by individual and ensemble) in Contemporary or Experimental Performance and Best Contemporary Performance text | WINNER: Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award - Best Theatre; WA Tour Ready Award (Melbourne Fringe) ; Melbourne Festival Discovery Award (Melbourne Fringe)
2014
Television and Screen
  • Journalist in Party Tricks | Endemol Australia | Aired 13 October 2014 (Channel 10)
  • Central figure in It has to be more than just two foxes and a hen deciding what to have for lunch | Video artwork | By Lisa Radford, Kim Munro and Sam George | The Museum is the Region, the Region is the Museum | West Space at Living Museum of the West
Theatre
  • Sarah Rodigari in Reach Out Touch Faith | By Sarah Rodigari | Going Nowhere Festival | ArtsHouse | review | Winner: 2014 Green Room Award - Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance
  • Performer in Jesus! Live! Here! Tonight! #1 (Spinning) | Dir. Kat Henry | The Malthouse forecourt | 15 November 7pm
  • Laura in Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson (playreading)| Kazan Theatre Retrospective | Dir. Peta Hanrahan | The Sandpit
  • Femme Fatale (voice over) and Assistant Director for Angryy Sexx by Rachel Perks | Dir. Bridget Balodis | Melbourne Fringe 2014 | review
  • Queen Isabeau and Henry Bolingbroke in Royals by Kate Rice | Dir. Jeremy Rice | Melbourne Fringe 2014
  • The Mother and Friend in Triumph by Louris Van De Geer (playreading) | Dir. Mark Pritchard | Neon Up Late with MKA @ MTC Neon 
  • Architect in Like A Fishbone by Anthony Weigh | Dir. Alice Darling | Man With A Plan Collective and MKA, Hyprtxt festival | The Food Court ARI, Docklands | reviews
  • Usher in A Filibuster of Dreams |created and performed by Sarah Rodigari | Festival of Live Art (FOLA), Arts House, North Melbourne 
  • Co-wrote and performed in Maybe You Could Crack My Sternum | By Emma Hall and Emma Smith | Tandanya Firefly, Adelaide Fringe Festival | reviews
2013
Television and Screen
  • Created and performed Footscray | Cinematography and editing by Beth Jennings
Theatre
  • Performed Sight is the Sense by Tim Etchells (Australian premiere) |Solo performance/reading | Typhoon Yolanda Art Fundraiser, December | The Food Court ARI, Docklands
  • Co-devised and performed in Unfinished Business by NO SHOW | Dir. Bridget Balodis and Mark Pritchard | This Is Not Art festival, Newcastle
  • Devised, directed and performed in Ode to Al with Emma Smith, Tamara Natt and Artemis Ioannides | ORGI#4, Kings ARI, Melbourne 
  • Co-devised and performed in Unfinished Business by NO SHOW | You Are Here festival, March | Canberra (commissioned work)
  • Directed and performed in We Are Perpendicular by Emily Stewart | You Are Here festival, Canberra (commissioned work) | review within Carols by Cavelight
  • Wrote and performed Where I Go, appearing in audio tour Mall Stories | Curated by Julian Fleetwood | You Are Here festival, March | Canberra
  • Co-devised and performed in Outside Line by NO SHOW | Pop Up Playground’s 2013 Fresh Air, Federation Square, Melbourne
2012
TRAINING: 
  • Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies (Theatre, Acting) from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Television and Screen
  • Appears as herself and her mother in You Came Out of Me by Nina Mulhall |National Portrait Gallery, Canberra | Finalist for the 2012 National Digital Portrait Award​