2014 - 2020

Artistic Director & Senior Teaching Artist, South Australian Youth Arts Company (SAYarts)

Responsibilities:

  • Performance skills development for young people aged from 5 to 17

  • Devising and development of new theatre work in collaboration with young people

  • Delivery of public performance outcomes

  • Facilitation of School Holiday community arts projects

  • Director, Lead Artist and Producer for Only Human by Sophia Simmons for Adelaide Fringe, 2020

  • Director, Lead Artist and Producer for Goddess On A Highway by Alan Grace for Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2019

  • Curator and Lead Artist for Child X for National Youth Week, 2017

  • Director and Producer of Macbeth Re-Arisen by David Mence for Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2017

  • Director and Lead Artist for Everybody Dies for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2016. Best Show Youth Curtain Call Awards 2016

  • 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:

  • Producer of Wanna Make a Movie filmmaking project and its outcome, The Space Between

  • 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  

  • 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

  • Facilitator of performance and art making workshops

January - September 2019

Guest Artist, Patch Theatre

  • Guest artist on development of Zoom

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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:

  • 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:

  • May 2016 – May 2017

Lead Artist, Carclew’s Stage Sparks

  • May 2014 - December 2014

Manager & Producer, Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA)

  • 2012-2014

Tutor, Urban Myth Theatre Company

  • 2013-2014

Workshop Facilitator/Director, Prospect Theatre for Young people

  • 2012-2014

Director/Tutor, Salisbury Twelve24 Youth Arts Centre

  • 2008-2014

Fairfax Festival Director

  • August 2012 – March 2013 

Program Assistant, Come Out Festival (Australian Festival for Young People) 

  • 2010-2012

Assistant Cultural Services Officer, Glenelg Shire Council

  • 2010 (contract)

Theatre Guild Administrator, University of Adelaide

  • 2008-2010

Performing Arts Director, Swan Hill Rural City Council

1998-present

Theatre Producer/Independent Theatre Practitioner 

Roles:

  • Producer and ensemble member of five.point.one, 2012 to 2015

  • Adelaide Fringe Festival Theatre Judge, 2010, 2012 and 2013

  • Project Coordinator and Facilitator of SuperCOO-EEfragilisticexpialiCRIKEY and Pimp My Organ, 2011

  • Direction of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 2011

  • Professional Development with Snuff Puppets, 2013

  • Professional Development with Barking Spider Visual Theatre, 2012

  • Professional Development with Punchdrunk, 2018

  • Co-founder and Producer of independent theatre company Three to a Room, 2006-2010 (www.threetoaroom.com)

  • Co-founder of Amiable Productions (New Zealand), 1998

  • Project Manager for On Invisible Wings, 2008-2009

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