2014 - 2020
Artistic Director & Senior Teaching Artist, South Australian Youth Arts Company (SAYarts)
Responsibilities:
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Performance skills development for young people aged from 5 to 17
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Devising and development of new theatre work in collaboration with young people
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Delivery of public performance outcomes
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Facilitation of School Holiday community arts projects
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Director, Lead Artist and Producer for Only Human by Sophia Simmons for Adelaide Fringe, 2020
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Director, Lead Artist and Producer for Goddess On A Highway by Alan Grace for Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2019
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Director, Lead Artist and Producer for I Still Have No Friends by Alan Grace for Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2018
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Curator and Lead Artist for Child X for National Youth Week, 2017
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Director and Producer of Macbeth Re-Arisen by David Mence for Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2017
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Director and Lead Artist for Everybody Dies for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2016. Best Show Youth Curtain Call Awards 2016
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Director and Lead Artist for #nofilter for 2015 Adelaide Fringe Festival
November 2014-present
Lead Artist, Director and Creative Producer, ExpressWay Arts, Carclew & City of Onkaparinga
Responsibilities:
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Producer of Wanna Make a Movie filmmaking project and its outcome, The Space Between
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Director and Lead Artist for Losing Faith In Unicorns (Finalist, 2017 Ruby Awards,) a large scale immersive theatre/performance art installation in a house for DreamBIG International Children's Festival, 2017
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Facilitator of Run, Zombie, Run and Director of Zombie Gauntlet (Finalist, 2015 Ruby Awards), an immersive theatre experience and cultural mapping project within the City of Onkaparinga, 2015
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Facilitator of performance and art making workshops
January - September 2019
Guest Artist, Patch Theatre
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Guest artist on development of Zoom
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Guest ‘Keeper of the Light’ – audience interaction role and guest Stage Manager for Zoom
October 2016 – March 2019
Lead Artist, D’faces of Youth Arts, Whyalla
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Co-Lead Artist and Director of Life Lessons, an intergenerational project between the young people of D’Faces and residents of the Annie Lockwood Court aged cared facility in Whyalla
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Co-Lead Artist, Co-Installation Artist, Prosthetics Designer, Facilitator and Director of Area 53, 2017-2019. Winner, Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, 2019. Winner, Arts South Australia Ruby Award, 2018
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Co-Lead Artist and Director of Where To? From Here! for D'Faces of Youth Arts
December 2014 - December 2015
Artist & Facilitator of Renmark Arts Partnership
Responsibilities:
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Co-Lead Artist of the Renmark Arts Partnership – a year long filmmaking project for Year 6 students to build resilience and social engagement skills. Short films were entered into the TropJr Film Festival with two films becoming finalists.
Other:
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May 2016 – May 2017
Lead Artist, Carclew’s Stage Sparks
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May 2014 - December 2014
Manager & Producer, Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA)
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2012-2014
Tutor, Urban Myth Theatre Company
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2013-2014
Workshop Facilitator/Director, Prospect Theatre for Young people
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2012-2014
Director/Tutor, Salisbury Twelve24 Youth Arts Centre
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2008-2014
Fairfax Festival Director
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August 2012 – March 2013
Program Assistant, Come Out Festival (Australian Festival for Young People)
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2010-2012
Assistant Cultural Services Officer, Glenelg Shire Council
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2010 (contract)
Theatre Guild Administrator, University of Adelaide
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2008-2010
Performing Arts Director, Swan Hill Rural City Council
1998-present
Theatre Producer/Independent Theatre Practitioner
Roles:
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Producer and ensemble member of five.point.one, 2012 to 2015
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Adelaide Fringe Festival Theatre Judge, 2010, 2012 and 2013
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Project Coordinator and Facilitator of SuperCOO-EEfragilisticexpialiCRIKEY and Pimp My Organ, 2011
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Direction of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 2011
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Professional Development with Snuff Puppets, 2013
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Professional Development with Barking Spider Visual Theatre, 2012
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Professional Development with Punchdrunk, 2018
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Co-founder and Producer of independent theatre company Three to a Room, 2006-2010 (www.threetoaroom.com)
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Co-founder of Amiable Productions (New Zealand), 1998
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Project Manager for On Invisible Wings, 2008-2009






