TERM ONE 2009

MICHAEL PIGOTT

B.A. (Hons) Performance Studies, Dip.Ed. (Drama)

Michael Pigott is a director, teacher and writer. His directing work includes: La La Land (Darlinghurst Theatre); Pugilist Specialist (Darlinghurst Theatre); The Forgotten Tide, The Space Between, A Midsummer Night's Dream & Roberto Zucco (Sydney Theatre School); The Golden Ass (B Sharp); The Young Tycoons (Darlinghurst Theatre); Dahling You Were Marvellous (NIDA Studio); Meet the Candidates (Darlinghurst Theatre); King Lear (Harlos Productions); The Doglogs (National Tour); Crescent Moon, Yellow Star (Belvoir Downstairs); Backpacker (Darlinghurst Theatre); Barnsey the Harbour and You (Darlinghurst Theatre); Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Harlos Producations).

As a writer his work includes: Between the Seabed and the Sky (VCA / Darlinghurst Theatre); Walking on Eggshells which premiered in Slovenia and toured to Germany.

MALCOLM FRAWLEY

Malcolm Frawley is a writer/director/teacher and actor with over 30 years of professional experience. His plays and/or productions have been performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay and Darwin.

One Of The Girls, Malcolm’s AWGIE-nominated theatre-in-education play about peer pressure, was published in 1995.

Malcolm worked for some years in serial television, writing and script-editing series including Neighbours and E Street.

More recently, he moved into screen-writing and worked as script editor with young film-maker Christopher Weekes on his feature film Bitter And Twisted that was recently screened, to great reviews, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

He was also commissioned to write First Lady, a first fleet screenplay, with acclaimed novelist Alan Gold (Jezebel, Boadicea, The Pirate Queen etc).

Malcolm played Knife, one of a club of serial killers, in the low budget horror feature The Seventh Hunt, now in post-production and major supporting roles in the low-budget features Rollover and Sum Of Existence (broadcast on Channel 9) and a cameo in I Wish I Was Stephanie V. He played the title role in the short film Reubens and major roles in Product, Rose and Faith.

Malcolm was co-director of NIDA’s screen acting programme for Third Years from 2000-2003 (inclusive). He has taught screen acting, audition technique, stage-craft, text analysis, improvisation and characterisation at Sydney Theatre School, Screenwise, Actors College of Theatre and Television, Theatre Nepean, Screen Actors Workshop, The Actor’s Lounge, Ed5, Kick Performance Group and Keane Kids /Gala Studios. He regularly leads screen writing workshops for teenagers at St Aloysius College and play writing at The Studio, MLC Burwood. He has directed six productions for Darlo Drama.

Malcolm is the artistic director of Ferknerkle Productions (www.ferknerkle.com) and directed both plays in its most recent double header Gone Bush and Sniper.

CRISTABEL SVED

Training: NIDA (post graduate, Directing), BA Hons.(Performance Studies) UWS, Theatre Nepean (BA Performance). Directing credits include:  Spin (Short play Griffin Theatre Co.); The Call (Ass. Director, Griffin Theatre Co); The Overwhelming (Back Stage, Sydney Theatre Co); Ysp@c3, Twelfth Night (Sydney Theatre School); Buy Guns (rehearsed read, Company B and Theatreworks), The Serpent’s Teeth (Assistant Director, Sydney Theatre Co.); Undertaker’s Bride and The Book of Job –‘Writers Onstage’ (Everest, Seymour Centre); For NIDA:  Attempts on Her Life, Julius Caesar (Assistant Director), The Telling, The Stronger, The Curing (Director/Dramaturge); Jack Rabbit (Short & Sweet,The Arts Centre Melbourne); The House of Bernarda Alba ( Red Stitch Actors Theatre);  The Woolgatherer (Inaugural production, Darlinghurst Theatre Co.); The Golden Mullet (Stables Launch Pad Season, Darlinghurst Theatre Co, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Adelaide & The Melbourne Comedy Festivals); The Contents of Your Suitcase (Short & Sweet, Newtown Theatre); Better Homes & Gardens TV; Love Life & Lounge Singing (Open Season, Upstairs Belvoir St); Rorschark, The Unveiling, Find Me, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Death Comes to Us All, Mary Agnes (Darlinghurst Drama, Wayside Theatre). The Treasure’s Launch Exhibition (Melbourne Museum), The Bounty, Subgrub (Australian National Maritime Museum); Observatory Mansions, The Sandcastle (Theatre Nepean,University UWS). She has run workshops and taught at Sydney Theatre School; Griffin; NIDA Open Program; Darlinghurst Theatre; The National Theatre, Melbourne. Positions: Affiliate Director, Griffin Theatre Co (2009); Bsharp Artistic Committee member (2008-); Company Manager (1998-02) and founding member of Darlinghurst Theatre.

KERREEN ELY-HARPER

Diploma of Dramatic Arts (Acting) - VCA; Diploma of Education (Drama);

B.A. (English Lit, Creative Writing,History); Grad. Dip (Film and Television) - VCA

Kerreen is a VCA graduate of the Drama and Film & Television Schools. She has worked extensively as an actor, writer, director and tutor in performing arts education, theatre, film and television. She received an Atom Award for her documentary In Her Own Words.  She directed Parts Of a Horse, a recipient of Film Victoria's Short Film Fund and received development funding for her documentary Even Girls Play Footy from Film Victoria and the AFC. Even Girls is currently listed on the Documentary Australia website. In 2006 she co-wrote and directed Cargo: The True Adventures of Mary Bryant for the Malthouse theatre. In 2008 she directed the VDay Vagina Monologues at NIDA starring Pamela Rabe, Noni Hazlehurst, Jacki Weaver and Amanda Keller. She is currently a teaching artist for Bell Shakespeare. Kerreen received funding from the Australia Council’s Literature Board and the New Media Consortium (NMC) in the USA to build a virtual world in Second Life. Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters is based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and was launched in October, 2008. In 2009 Kerreen will take up an artist residency at Bundanon Trust to begin a creative development on her next theatre project based on the writings of William Dawes, Dawes Point: Cosmology, Astronomy, Mythical Beings.

OTHER DIRECTORS 2009:

LUKE ROGERS - Eyes to the Floor (Term 2)

KATE GAUL - Attempts on Her Life (Term 2)

DAVID RITCHIE - Twelfth Night (Term 3)

NICHOLAS PAPADEMETRIOU - Measure for Measure (Term 3)

JEROME PRIDE - Macbeth (Term 3)