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POST
GRADUATE
THEATRE 2016
VICTORIAN
COLLEGE OF
THE ARTS
POST
GRADUATE
THEATRE 2016
VICTORIAN
COLLEGE OF
THE ARTS
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The Last Ten Minutes of History, VCA Director’s Season 2016
Peter Blackburn
Fiona Blair
Dirk Hoult
Katy Maudlin
Rei Poh
Mick Klepner Roe
Olivia Satchell
Kate Stones
MASTER OF
DIRECTING FOR
PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
Zone Four
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
PETER BL ACKBURN
Peter has a background teaching English in
secondary and tertiary settings, and in actor
training. His independent project for the
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) sees him
unite his artistic endeavours with a passion
for working with young people and sharing
their stories. As a theatre-maker, Peter’s
interests span a broad range of styles and
approaches, celebrating Australian writers
where possible and always demonstrating a
commitment to the actor’s process. Peter has
a close association with the Australian Theatre
Company in Los Angeles, recently winning the
L.A. Scene Awards for Best Comedy and Best
Director for the production Ruben Guthrie.
M 0413 194 163
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Zone Four by Holly Brindley, Angus Cameron, Fiona Spitzkowsky
and Georgia Symons
VCA Masters Series, Testing Grounds
Director
2016
Ruben Guthrie2016
by Brendan Cowell
Australian Theatre Company, Los Angeles
Director
Romeo and Juliet
Bell Shakespeare Company
Directing Secondment
2016
Orphans by Lyle Kessler
Gasworks Theatre
Director
2016
Inside the Egg: The Life of Anne Geddes’
Prisoner Children by Sam Allen
2013/2014
Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne
Comedy Festival
Director/Dramaturg
The Boys by Gordon Graham
Black Water Theatre Company
Director
2013
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
RoundSquare Productions
Director
2013
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
FIONA BL AIR Fiona Blair makes theatre down mines and on
beaches, at trotting tracks and footy ovals,
in deserted factories and shearing sheds, by
rivers and lakes, by the sea...
She is the Artistic Director of the Old Van
Ltd, an independent company based in rural
Victoria. She interned with Cornish landscape
theatre company Wild Works in the UK. MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
M 0408 518 416
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Molly Sweeney 2013
Fee Broadway Theatre Castlemaine; Footscray
Community Arts Centre
My Homeland2009
Mildura Homestead
Romeo & Juliet2006
Aurora Packing Shed, Merbein
The Bludgers Opera
Kialla Raceways, Shepparton
Macbeth 2000 - 2004
Convent Gallery Daylesford; Bendigo,
Kyneton, Wangaratta, Colac, Portland,
Shepparton; Theatreworks St Kilda
Faith Healer 1998
The Shed, VCA, Melbourne; Uniting Church
Hall Daylesford
The Swan
The Pavilion, Lake Daylesford
1999
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
One in Seven
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
DIRK HOULT
Throughout his time at VCA, Dirk has focused
his attenion on the dramaturgy, development,
and production of original cabaret and
music theatre, and plans to connect with a
mentor who specialises in the practice of
dramaturgy for music theatre. It is his ambition
to find employment as Resident Director
on a commercial musical, and to continue
connecting with makers of original cabaret,
theatre, and new music theatre. In March, Dirk
was invited by Neil Gooding and the team
at the Hayes Theatre to be present for the
development and rehearsals of The Detective’s
Handbook, under the direction of Jonathan
Biggins. Dirk is inspired by Australia’s untold
queer stories, which challenge the stigmas
of difference surrounding gender, sexual
preference, disability and disease, and is
committed to finding innovative ways to share
them with audiences.
M 0402 207 868
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
One in Seven La Mama Courthouse (VCA)
Director
2016
The Man of Mode Chapel off Chapel
Director
2016
Butch Masters: Man of Destiny2016
The Alex Theatre
Director
Company 45 Downstairs
Assistant Director
2015
Oprahfication 2012-14
The New York Musical Theatre Fest (NY),
Mardi Gras, Midsumma, Melbourne Cabaret,
Ballarat Cabaret, Adelaide Fringe, Feast
Festival (SA)
Director, Producer
The Brass Bear Cabaret Melbourne Cabaret Festival
Director, Writer, Producer
2012
Behind The Cane Queensland Music Festival
Assistant Director
2011
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
The Last Ten Minutes of History
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
K AT Y MAUDLIN
Katy Maudlin is a Melbourne based theatre
maker and director who has a strong focus
on collaboration, new Australian works,
exploration of form, musicalised theatre
processes and feminist driven dramaturgies.
She has worked across main stage and
independent sectors in Australia, New
Zealand and Europe, including a secondment
with Katie Mitchell at Covent Garden’s Royal
Opera House. She is a founding member of
Company of Giants – a collective who make
work that celebrates the minds and hearts of
its collaborators. This year Katy received the
Melbourne Global Scholars Award and the
Ian Potter Cultural Trust. She was the 2015
recipient of the Orloff Family Charitable Trust
Scholarship, which is awarded for excellence.
M 0406 330 555
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W katymaudlin.com
MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Our Violence, Your Violence Wiener Festwochen
Assistant Director
2016
Giulio Cesare Croatian National Theatre
Assistant Director
2016
Lungs Melbourne Theatre Company
Assistant Director
2016
I saw the second one hit Malthouse, St. Martins Youth Arts
Assistant Director
2015
Uncle Minotaur The Basement Theatre
Director
2014
Giant Teeth Auckland Theatre Company
Director
2014
Odyssey Company of Giants
Director
2014 & 2013
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
Attempts
REI POH MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
Rei Poh is a theatre practitioner, director
and actor interested in the use of gaming
narratives within participatory theatre. As
a citizen of “meritocratic”, achievementobsessed Singapore, Rei believes in
embracing and celebrating failures. KEY FAILURES
1995 - M
oved from Express stream (average)
to Normal stream (sub-par)
1997 - G
CSE ‘O’ level score of 26 (the lower,
the better. 6 = perfect score)
1998 - F
ailed to complete Manufacturing
Diploma
2001 - A
pplied for Police Academy, but gave
up on multiple entry exams
2008 - U
nemployed and living with parents
2016 - In debt upon completion of the
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
Master of Directing for Performance
program.
M 0434 610 533
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Exit the forum theatre
Dramabox Both Sides Now
Director
Useless or Not 没有用！2014
Cloud theatre 云聚场
Director
Bride knocks Twice 她们 The Theatre Practice 实践剧场
Assistant Director
2013
The Girl in the White Sandbox 莎莎 2011, 2012 Dramabox 戏剧盒
Director
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
Our Lady of the Flowers
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
MICK KLEPNER ROE
Mick Klepner Roe is a performance maker
with an interest in the in-between. While at
the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Mick
has been investigating trans-dramaturgy; a
process of remaining inbetween performer
and director, butch and femme, poetry
and performance. Mick undertook two
observational internships in 2016: in March
with Melbourne company The Rabble on
their creative development of Ulysses, and
in May with UK artist Scottee on his creative
development of Bravado. Mick has experience
in arts facilitation and arts access, and worked
for the University of Melbourne’s student
union as one of the Arts Officers in 2014. Mick
loves working with and for all types of artists.
M 0400 000 000
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Our Lady of the Flowers by Embittered Swish
La Mama Courthouse
Director and Performer
2016
Embittered Swish Steven Cummins residency
PACT (Performance Space Sydney)
Director and Performer
2016
Grief and the Lullaby by Patrick McCarthy
Theatre Works
Assistant Director
2015
Whyld by Tammy Anderson (staged reading)
VCA
Director
2015
Dramaturgy and Live Performance Showcase
Victorian College of the Arts
Devisor
2015
4skns r flwrs Various venues
Devisor and Performer
2015 - 2016
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
I sat and waited but you were gone too long
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
OLIVIA SATCHELL
MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
I sat and waited but you 2016
were gone too long
La Mama Explorations
Writer and director
Olivia Satchell is a theatre maker, director and
dramaturg based in Sydney and Melbourne.
Her practice focuses on community
development for emerging artists, new writing
development and producing her own work
through her independent company ‘the voice
in my hands’. She is the co-founder of Sydney
new writing company Somersault as well as
Melbourne performance program Small and
Loud. Her plays include My Name is Truda Vitz
and I sat and waited but you were gone too
long. I sat and waited but you were gone too
long was showcased at Playwriting Australia’s
National Play Festival 2016. She was the 2015
recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship.
Back at the Dojo Stuck Pigs Squealing/Belvoir
Assistant Director
2016
Bright World Arthur/Theatreworks
Assistant Director
2016
Splendour Red Stitch
Assistant Director
2016
The Golden Age Sydney Theatre Company
Directorial Secondment
2016
M 0423 164 535
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W thevoiceinmyhands.com
My Name is Truda Vitz Somersault
Writer and performer
2014
Heart Dot Com Tap Gallery
Director
2012
MASTER OF DIREC TING
FOR PERFORMANCE
The Crying Machine
MASTER OF DIRECTING FOR PERFORMANCE
K ATE STONES
Kate works across independent and
community theatre, identifying as a performer,
theatre maker, facilitator and director. She
runs independent theatre company The Red
Room, with collaborator Kenneth MacLeod,
based at their home in Central Victoria. Kate
is the Artistic Associate at CreateAbility,
a Bendigo based organisation providing
opportunities for people of all abilities to
express themselves and connect with others
through the arts. She works for Castlemaine
Theatre Company as a director, performer
and producer. In 2014 she was awarded
The Orloff Charitable Trust Award. ‘The Red
Room Theatre is an inspiring example of
truly independent theatre practice: regionally
based; globally connected; artists who defy
easy categorization; a strong, lateral and DIY
aesthetic that meets true artistic commitment
and the highest levels of technical expertise,’
Jane Crawley, Manager Arts and Culture,
City of Melbourne, 2015.
M 0431 998 707
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
The Quiet Bite2016
Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub
Solo writer and performer
IgnorLAND of it’s Loss Drama Box Theatre, Singapore
Internship
2016
Still Alive by Louise O’Dwyer LaMama, Melbourne Comedy Festival
Performer
2016
Servant of the Revolution by Anitra Nelson
The Red Room Theatre
Performer and Producer
2016
Monkey and The Monk Castlemaine Theatre Company
Writer, Director, Project Manager
2015
Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman Castlemaine State Festival,
The Red Room Theatre
Co-director and Performer
2015
Cuckoo by Jane Miller Victorian College of the Arts
Director
2014
POST
GRADUATE
THEATRE 2016
VICTORIAN
COLLEGE OF
THE ARTS
Maude Davey
Hayley Lawson-Smith
Sandra Fiona Long
Kerith Manderson-Galvin
Blake Osborn
Vidya Rajan
Samsara
Jordan Shea
J E Thompson
MASTER OF
WRITING FOR
PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MAUDE DAVEY
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
Maude Davey trained as an actor at the
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), and has
worked as an actor, director and writer for more
than thirty years, with her primary focus being
the creation of new work. She has worked across
Burlesque, New Variety, and Theatre. Highlights
include her acclaimed solo show, My Life in
the Nude, which toured to Adelaide, Perth and
Hobart and ten years with Finucane & Smith
as a core member of their Burlesque Hour/
Glory Box ensemble. Film and television work
includes: The Slap, Offspring, My Year Without
Sex and Summer Heights High.
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Retro Futurismus – New World
fortyfivedownstairs, Brisbane
Producer and performer
2015- 2016
Ghosts Toast and the Things Unsaid – 2016
Written by Kath Fyffe and cast
Produced by Sandpit
Directors Sam Haren and Dan Koerner
Adelaide Fringe Festival Actor
2016
The Trouble With Harry – Written by Lachlan Philpott
Directed by Alyson Campbell
MKA, Melbourne Festival
Actor
2014
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
SANDRA FIONA LONG
Sandra Fiona Long is a writer and
performance maker. Career highlights
include performance Birdcage Thursdays
commissioned for the Big West Festival
Newest program, solo work Pancake Opus
100 at La Mama Theatre, The Beaufort Wind
Lounge at Federation Square for the 24
Hour Experience and a Ross Trust Script
Development award for Duets for Lovers and
Dreamers performed at fortyfivedownstairs.
She collaborated with Indonesian company
Mainteater for 18 years including directing
and translating Happy 1000 1000 Bahagia
which won a Fringe award for Innovation of
Form, and a Green Room nomination for
Innovative New Form. She directed Urat
Jagat (Veins of the Universe) and Microcosm
in 2015, and has made theatre with many
community organisations including DVA
theatre, St Vincent DePaul, Migrant Resource
Centre, FCARTS, Western Edge and Geelong
Courthouse
M 0433 028 368 E [email protected] W hadesfading.com MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Fear The Sun sound and space installation 2016
MKA Hot!Hot!Hot! and climate arts festival
Writer
Birdcage Thursdays2015
Big West Festival
Writer
Pancake Opus 100
La Mama Theatre
Writer
2015
Urat Jagat (Veins of the Universe)
Indonesia
Writer
2015
The Beaufort Wind Lounge, 2014
24 Hour Experience
FOLA
Writer
Duets for Lovers and Dreamers2010
fortyfivedownstairs
Writer
Tall Words DVA theatre
Writer
2010
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
KERITH MANDERSON-GALVIN
Kerith is a performer, playwright and theatre
maker whose work focuses on personal
identity and experience. Kerith’s work begins
with a Queer, Femme artist and what happens
next is a result of that. A review in Daily
Review called their MKA production Being
Dead (Don Quixote) ‘a glorious mess with a
serious purpose.’
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
M 0411 597 557
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W unofficialkerithfanclub.com
MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
The Closer I Get To You Victorian College of the Arts
Writer
2016
186, 000 MKA Theatre
Writer
2016
Being Dead (Don Quixote) MKA Theatre
Writer
don’t bring lulu Union House Theatre
Dir. Tom Gutteridge
Writer
2014-2016
2014
The Hat Box 2011
Dir: Brigid Gallagher, Family of Strangers
Sunny Side Up
Writer
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
BL AKE OSBORN
Blake Osborn graduated from The Victorian
College of the Arts (VCA) in 1993, with a
Diploma in Acting. After graduating he
appeared in various productions, including
Head On and Kangaroo Palace before
moving his focus to behind the camera,
where he forged a career in television art
departments. He has worked on programs
such as Australia’s Next Top Model, X Factor,
Living With The Enemy, Haunting: Australia,
Kath and Kimderella, Offspring, Small Time
Gangster, East Of Everything and Big Brother.
He recently returned to performing, and
played a lead role in the feature film The Five
Provocations (post production).
M 0411 280 342
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
The Five Provocations2016
Black Eye Films
Post production and Actor
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
VIDYA RAJAN
Vidya Rajan is a writer, performer and theatremaker from Perth, who now calls Melbourne
home. She likes working across a number of
genres and forms including; playwriting, live
art, comedy, devised performance, and writing
for the screen. Recent works include Solidity
(VCA play readings 2016), Asian Ghost-ery
Store (Melbourne Fringe Award 2015) and
Friendquest which was nominated for Fringe
World Best Theatre in 2015. She performs
with improvisation and sketch comedy groups
around town. She is currently completing a
Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and is an
MTC Connect ambassador for 2017.
M 0430475377
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MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
SAMSARA
A member of Company 1997, Samsara
holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Art from the
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Samsara
has trained in Canada and the USA, and has
toured America, Europe and Great Britain.
Her previous writings include Othello:Death
Poll, The Players, Entropia, Vocx, Viktoree-us,
Ball Breakers, Oh Feel, Lia, and Black Canasta.
She has directed the following plays; Self
Contained Spaces, Three Steps Forward, Glass
Clouds, The Great Leap Forward, Glengarry
Glen Ross, The Gentleman and The Thief, The
Exception and The Rule and Mother Courage
and Her Children. Her graduation play
Dramatic Reaction is a playful response to her
life in the industry.
M 0412 415 159
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W samsaradunston.blogspot.com.au
MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Enter The Vortex The Owl and Cat Theatre
Writer & Director
2015
The Exception and The Rule Ubermensch Theatre
Director
2014
Othello: Death Poll Melbourne Fringe Festival
Writer & Director
2013
Glengarry Glen Ross
Trinity College
Director
2013
Self Contained Spaces
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Director
2012
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
JORDAN SHEA
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
Born and raised in the Southern suburbs
of Sydney, Jordan has been involved in the
theatre since the tender age of seventeen.
Before commencing at the Victorian College
of the Arts (VCA), he trained at Sydney
Theatre School and the University of Notre
Dame Australia. He has produced, directed
and written works that have been performed
in Melbourne and Sydney, in various galleries,
theatres, regional arts centres, backrooms
of pubs and disabled toilets. He is currently
developing new works for Melbourne and
Sydney audiences.
M 0415 095 768
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
the stalls Arts House & Melbourne Fringe
Producer
2016
Little Differences ATYP National Studio
Writer
2016
Red, white & blue polls Workers Club
Writer
2016
Last Drinks Exchange Hotel
Writer
2015
The Shape of Things Kings Cross Theatre
Director
2015
KEATING! The Musical Bryan Brown Theatre
Director
2015
Wasn’t tomorrow wonderful? STS Theatre
Producer
2014
Last Drinks King St Theatre
Writer
2014
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
ANDREW STRANO
A VCA trained musical theatre performer,
Andrew is a Green Room Award winning lyricist
(Best Original Songs 2015) alongside composer
Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer (@MS_and_S).
Their debut work ‘Nailed it!’ saw Andrew
nominated for Best Male Cabaret Performer
by Theatrepeople, and has toured the world
including the prestigious Adelaide Cabaret
festival to 5-star, rave reviews. Trained at the
iO theatre in Chicago and Melbourne’s Improv
Conspiracy, Andrew plays regularly for Quiet
Achievers: Completely Silent Improvisation,
The Improv Conspiracy and Laugh Masters
Academy. He has taught improvisation
internationally and locally, and directs
Original Cast: The Completely Improvised
Musical, Soothplayers: Completely Improvised
Shakespeare and many other projects.
Follow him or get in touch:
@andrewstrano on twitter and instagram.
M 0418 687 478
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Servant Of Two Masters2016
Victorian College of the Arts
Writer
Nailed It!2014-16
Adelaide Cabaret Festival et al
Lyricist/Performer
Soothplayers: Completely Improvised Shakespeare
Melbourne Fringe/MICF
2016
MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
J E THOMPSON
J E Thompson is a Melbourne-based
playwright. Her script Adam Smith’s
Shame was presented as a part of 2014 La
Mama’s Explorations following a week long
development with director Petra Kalive. Jane
was dramaturg on Glyn Robert’s Triangle
(2012; nominated for six Green Room Awards)
directed by Tanya Dickson for the National
Play Festival, Malthouse Theatre and MKA:
Theatre of New Writing. While studying a
Bachelor of Arts (Fashion) at RMIT, she met
creative director and auteur Lynne Ellis. She
has worked with Ellis on many productions as
a playwright and actor, at the Kaleide Union
Theatre and La Mama. Although Jane now
identifies as a playwright, she’s has spent the
last 20 years in theatre as an actor, playwright,
director, costume designer, dramaturg, and
spectator, sometimes as a student, sometimes
as an autodidact.
M 0433 131 690
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MASTER OF WRITING
FOR PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
HAYLEY L AWSON-SMITH
Hayley Lawson-Smith has had all three
novels of her trilogy, ‘The Julius Romeros
Extravaganza’, published through ASJ
Publishing. Hayley’s short plays have received
awards and high audience praise at various
Short and Sweet festivals, while her one-act
plays have entertained audiences throughout
Victoria. Last year her play Pretence received
many awards at various festivals, and in
2014 her short play It’s On Me was awarded
Best Short Play at the Kyneton One-Act
Play festival, adjudicated by John Flaus.
In 2014, Hayley was commissioned by
Peridot Theatre Company to write Warriors,
a youth production. Warriors is currently
represented by YouthPlays, a Los Angeles
based publishing company, and has since
been produced by two different high schools
in the United States. Hayley has worked with
Baggage Productions on their annual Mad
Women Monologues seasons. This year her
one act play Vale William MacRoy won several
Best New Australian Play awards across the
one act play festival circuit.
M 0435 364 065
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Captain Jester’s Dir. Eryn Skinner
Dramaturg. Stephanie Ghajar
Writer
2016
POST
GRADUATE
THEATRE 2016
VICTORIAN
COLLEGE OF
THE ARTS
Callum Dale
Stephanie Ghajar
Jonathan Graffam
Jonathan Ware
MASTER OF
DRAMATURGY
MASTER OF
D R A M AT U R G Y
MASTER OF DRAMATURGY
CALLUM DALE
Callum Dale is a Melbourne based theatre
maker, director and dramaturg. As a founding
member of What Just Happened Productions,
Callum co-produced six productions between
2007 and 2011. In 2012 he studied at the
Makeup Effects Group (MEG). Callum has a
Bachelor of Arts (Theatre and History) from
Monash University where he presented a
research paper at the 2015 International
Conference for Undergraduate Research
(ICUR). As an associate artist of Nuworks
Theatre, Callum was a part of their 2014
performance tour of the United Kingdom.
Callum began directing in 2014 and has since
pursued a career as a director and dramaturg.
In 2016 he was the recipient of the Jim Marks
Postgraduate Scholarship Encouragement
Award while on placement at the Melbourne
Theatre Company (MTC) working on Cybec
Electric 2017 and Neil Simon’s The Odd
Couple.
M 0423 085 556
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
Dir. Peter Houghton
Melbourne Theatre Company
Intern
2016
Fierce by J E Thompson
Dir. James Cutler
VCA
Dramaturg
2016
Trolley Boys by Jordan Shea
Dir. Kat Moss
VCA
Dramaturg
2016
Man the Balloon by Matt Cameron
MUST
Director
2015
Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
WST
Director
2015
Disney’s Beauty & the Beast2014
WST
Director
MUSTBOP: Halloween Day by Callum Dale & Elliot Roberts
MUST
Writer and Director
2014
MASTER OF
D R A M AT U R G Y
MASTER OF DRAMATURGY
STEPHANIE GHAJAR
Stephanie Ghajar is a Melbourne-based
theatre-maker, completing her Master of
Dramaturgy at the Victorian College of
the Arts, while working as a director and
dramaturg in collaboration with other
Melbourne-based artists. Her work explores
the individual in deeply personal situations
of disappointment, suffering, frustration,
and struggle, in moments where the familiar
motions of the everyday darken and veer
toward the tragic, whilst maintaining its
ritualistic performance. Ghajar seeks to delve
into the realms of who or what governs and
manipulates this ‘straying’, in an attempt to
open a space for discussion in the public
sphere. Her undergraduate studies in media
and communications have helped her to form
structure around her work, moving away from
rhetoric and looking into how experiences can
be created around/through an audience.
M 0466594740
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VCA PRODUCTIONS
Life on Repeat (dir. Justin Nott)
VCA, Frisk Festival
Writer and Dramaturg
2016
(in)tent2016
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Director and Dramaturg
Attempts (dir. Rei Poh) VCA Directors’ Season
Dramaturg
2016
Zenzalakht (dir. Charles Dik) Babel Theatro
Performer
2015
The Bear (dir. Charles Dik)
Babel Theatro
Performer
2014
MASTER OF
D R A M AT U R G Y
JONATHAN GRAFFAM
MASTER OF DRAMATURGY
Jonathan is a dramaturg and director based
in Melbourne. He trained as an actor at
UMass Amherst and completed his Bachelor
of Arts at Deakin University in 2006.
Jonathan’s theatre work previously focused on
reimagining classic texts for the stage. From
2007 to 2014 he lived between San Diego and
Melbourne, training as a secondary teacher.
While completing Honours at Deakin
University in 2015, he wrote and directed a
postmodern adaptation of Euripides’s The
Women of Troy. Jonathan’s current research
fuses traditions of meditation practice with
contemporary theatre making processes. His
work documents the variable shifts in physical
and emotional states through rehearsal
and performance, attempting to create a
framework to strategically enhance future
exploration.
M 0407 599 699
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MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
Ajax Melbourne Fringe Festival
Dramaturg
2016
Liminal Voices Deakin University Honours Season
Director
2015
King Oedipus Deakin University
Director
2006
Iphigenia at Aulis Deakin University
Director
2006
House of Desires University of Massachusetts Theater
Department
Performer
2005
Life is a Dream University of Massachusetts Theatre
Department
Performer
2005
MASTER OF
D R A M AT U R G Y
JONATHAN WARE
Jonathan trained at the Victorian College
of the Arts (VCA) in Production (Stage
Management). After graduation, he went
to work in London for Sonia Friedman
Productions (SFP), Sadler’s Wells and
Digital Theatre. While at SFP, he worked on
development workshops for Bend It Like
Beckham The Musical, Shakespeare in Love
(co-production with Disney Theatrical) and
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Upon
returning to Melbourne, he decided to pursue
dramaturgy and has specialised primarily in
works of music theatre. In the future, he wants
to work with young writers and composers
to find new methods and tools for musical
storytelling.
MASTER OF DRAMATURGY
M 0448 087 210
[email protected]
VCA PRODUCTIONS.
The Fangirls Project by Yve Blake
(in development)
Dramaturg
2016
Holt! Who Goes There?
Dev. Company
Dramaturg
2016
The Merchant of Venice (dir. Richard Murphet)
Stage Manager and Sound Designer
2012
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (dir. John Tiffany)
Written by Jack Thorne & J.K. Rowling
Sonia Friedman Productions
Workshop Stage Manager
2013
Bend It Like Beckham The Musical 2013
(dir. Gurinder Chadha)
Sonia Friedman Productions
Workshop Stage Manager
Shakespeare in Love 2013
(dir. Declan Donnellan)
Sonia Friedman Productions/Disney Theatrical
Productions
Designer Nick Ormerod
Workshop Stage Manager
T H E AT R E S TA F F
Dean, Faculty of VCA and MCM
Professor Barry Conyngham AM
Director, Victorian College of the Arts
Professor Su Baker
Deputy Director, Victorian College of the Arts
Professor Jon Cattapan
THEATRE STAFF & PHOTO CREDITS
Associate Director Research & Professor
Artistic Practice
Professor Mary Luckhurst
Graduate Studies Coordinator, Lecturer
Writing for Performance
Dr Raimondo Cortese
Research Higher Degrees Coordinator,
Senior Lecturer
Dr Zachary Dunbar
Honorary Senior Fellow
Max Gillies
Honorary Senior Fellow
Dr Geraldine Cook
Honorary Senior Fellow
Tanya Gerstle
Research Higher Degrees Coordinator VCA,
Senior Lecturer
Dr Alyson Campbell
Honorary Senior Fellow
Richard Murphett
Lecturer, Acting
Melanie Beddie
Honorary Senior Fellow
Dr David Woods
Head VCA Theatre
Associate Professor Matt Delbridge
Lecturer, Movement
Rinske Ginsberg
Undergraduate Studies Coordinator,
Lecturer Voice
Tony Smith
Lecturer, Directing for Performance
Robert (Draf) Draffin
Lecturer, Theatre
Sapidah Kian
Lecturer, Voice
Jennifer Innes
Lecturer, Theatre
Robert Walton
PHOTO CREDITS
OLIVIA SATCHELL
1. My Name is Truda Vitz, 2014, (Julia Robertson)
2. My Name is Truda Vitz, 2014, (Julia Robertson)
3.Publicity shot I sat and waited but you were
gone too long, 2016, (Sarah Walker)
FIONA BL AIR 1.
T he Seal Wife, adapted and directed
by Fiona Blair, The Old Van Ltd
2. U ndercover Boss by William Shakespeare,
directed by Fiona Blair, The Old Van Ltd
3. T he Life and Deaths of Don Coyote, adapted
and directed by Fiona Blair, The Old Van Ltd
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dreaming, Mildura,
The Old Van Ltd
K ATE STONES
1.
T he Quiet Bite, 2016 (She Said Theatre)
2. Purgatorio, 2015 (Shane Carey)
3. Monkey and the The Monk, 2015 (Mick Vovers)
4. C astlemaine Literature Festival Workshop in
progress, 2015 (Leone Carrington)
DIRK HOULT
1.
O prahfication, 2014 (Angel Leggas)
2. Company, 2014 (Dirk Hoult)
3. The Man of Mode, 2016 (Ange Leggas)
4. The Brass Bear Cabaret, 2012 (Ange Leggas)
K AT Y MAUDLIN
1.
G iant Teeth, 2014 (Andrew Malmo)
2. Odyssey, 2013, (Sarah Marshall)
3. Uncle Minotaur, 2014, (Ashley Holwell)
4.
O ur Violence, Your Violence, 2016
(Alexi Pelekanos)
REI POH
1.
A ttempts poster, designed by Martina Gil
2.
A ttempts production stills (Levina Then)
MICK KLEPNER ROE
Stills from Embittered Swish, 2016 (Kate Blackmore)
MAUDE DAVEY
1.Still from Season 2 Retro Futurismus,
Retro Futurismus B2B (Ponch Hawkes)
2. S till from Season 2 Retro Futurismus,
Retro Futurismus A&M Gold (Ponch Hawkes)
3. MY LIFE IN THE NUDE, The Burlesque Hour,
2011 (Paul Dunn)
SANDR A FIONA LONG
1.Genevieve Picot and Sophia Constantine in
Birdcage Thursdays (Carla Gottgens)
2. Pancake Opus 100 (Bronwyn Pringle)
3. Urat Jagat (Veins of the Universe),
(Deden Bulqini)
4. K atherine Tonkin and Helen Morse in Duets
for Lovers and Dreamers (Carla Gottgens)
VIDYA R AJAN
1.
Asian Ghost-ery Store, 2015 (Devika Bilmoria)
2. Friendquest, 2015 (Steven Finch)
3. Benny Bo, 2016 (Harley Bell)
SAMSAR A
1.
Vocx, 2015 (Samsara)
2. Entropia, 2015 (Samsara)
3. Othello: Death poll, 2013 (Samsara)
4. Self Contained Spaces, 2012 (Zara Albion-Lawson)
JORDAN SHEA
1.
Last Drinks, promotional shot (David Hooley)
2. The Shape of Things (Emma Nicholls)
3. Keating! The Musical (Grant Leslie)
4.I t’s been a while (Eunice Huang)
J E THOMPSON
1.
Lulu vs. Jack the Ripper, 2007 (Michael Parry)
2. Triangle, 2012 (Sarah Walker)
3. Shame, 2014 (Dorine Blaise)
4. Spring Awakening, 2004 (Michael Parry)
CALLUM DALE
1.
Man the Balloon, 2015 (Debbie Lambert)
2. Man the Balloon, 2015 (Debbie Lambert)
3.
Gothic Demon prosthetic makeup, 2012
(Kes Harrison)
4. The Mechanic, 2015 (Scott Bradshaw)
KERITH MANDERSON- GALVIN
1. Being Dead (Don Quixote), 2016, (Jamie Breen)
2. Being Dead (Don Quixote), 2016, (Jamie Breen)
3. Being Dead (Don Quixote), 2016 (Soma Garner)
4. don’t bring lulu, 2014 (vikkshayen.com)
STEPHANIE GHAJAR
1.
(in)tent, 2016 (Stephanie Ghajar)
2. Life on Repeat, 2016
3. Attempts, 2016 (Levina Hindarto Then)
4. The Bear, 2014 (Georges Boutros)
BL AKE OSBORN
1.
T he Five Provocations (Matt Jasper)
2. Haunting: Australia, 2014, naked (Blake Osborn)
3. Real Gold (short film), 2005 (Benjamin Barnes)
JONATHAN GR AFFAM
1.
Iphigenia at Aulis, 2006 (Jonathan Graffam)
2. Ajax, 2016 (Rhyal Williams)
3. Ajax, 2016 (Rhyal Williams)
PHOTO CREDITS
PETER BL ACKBURN
1.
D LP Project, 2015 (Lachlan Woods)
2.
R uben Guthrie, 2016 (Adrian McCool Honner)
3.
R uben Guthrie, 2016 (Suzie Strong)
4. The Boys, 2013 (Sarah Walker)
STAY CONNECTED
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channel.vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au
@vca_mcm
@vca_mcm
/thevictoriancollegeofthearts
youtube.com/FacultyofVCAandMCM
THANKS
A special thank you to all the performers shown in the images throughout this booklet, as well as the
companies and individuals who provided internship opportunities during 2016. We would also like to
thank the many guest speakers and tutors who provided students with invaluable advice and insight
into their respective professional practices.