Aviva Endean graduated from the VCA in 2007 and received the Lionel Gell Merit award which she used to pursue study in contemporary music performance and creative improvisation in Montreal and Vancouver. She has collaborated on projects with dancers, sound designers, 'world' and chamber music groups and theatre companies, A is for Atlas and Sanctum Theatre. She is a dedicated performer of new music and has commissioned and premiered both solo and chamber music work. In 2009 she formed Mamushka, a 5 piece band playing her original compositions and Quiver-new music group who present concerts of both obscure and classic contemporary chamber music. Last Updated (Monday, 17 August 2009 07:50)
Burke originally trained in Theatre and Theatre Design at Rusden, followed by studies in Fine Art and also Textile Design at RMIT. She has practiced as a teacher, visual artist, arts events producer, curator, actor, director, script-writer, puppeteer, designer/maker of: theatre sets, costumes, puppets and props. She has also designs and makes fashion, jewelery, furniture and textiles. Burke has worked with Melbourne Fringe, The L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Museum and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She has completed numerous public art projects working with students from Primary to Tertiary across Melbourne. Burke received an Arts Victoria Grant in 2008 to design and build a wooden ship and steel fish sculpture in the grounds of a school. They will be used as play equipment and as an outdoor classroom. In 2009 she received a grant through the Australia Thailand Institute to devise a production in Thailand on the theme of Mail Order Brides. Last Updated (Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:47)
Dave Houston has been creating theatre and performing since 1987. He is an actor, musician, writer and teacher who studied acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. He has toured 4 international shows incluidng his solo show Going My Way? to Edinburgh. His improvisational work has been on radio film and television. He tours with Zeal Theatre and comic percussion trio The Bongo Brothers. Recently he wrote and directed The Con for the Torch company. He is committed to Indigenous justice and quality performances. www.fullon.bizLast Updated (Wednesday, 03 June 2009 08:55)
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| Fleur Dean is a founding member of Big hART - one of Australia's highest producing and most critically acclaimed arts and social change organisations, creating new works with unusually inspiring communities and individuals. From Big ART’s inception1992, Fleur, with playwright Scott Rankin, facilitated and toured various shows throughout Australia til 1998, Fleur performed in Fringe Festival Award-winning shows such asThe Now Hour (2004) and Bremen (2005) in which she pulled out her puppet-construction, puppetry, hip-hop dancing, singing and ukulele skills as an offering to the cause. She has toured Theatre-in-Ed shows such as The Sustainables and Le Petit Prince throughout Victoria. Fleur lived in Africa and The Seychelles Islands earlier in her life wherein she experienced sufficiently riveting human-behaviour to provide subject matter for her animateuring teeth to chew on for possibly the rest of her working life. Her first foray into this subject matter occurred in last year’s Fringe Festival showPINNED, which she wrote, devised, produced and performed. Fleur has a background in dance, abseiling from buildings, stilt-walking, trained with the New York SITI Company in Suzuki/Viewpoints technique, Leisa Shelton in Corporeal Mime, John McManus and Dawn Langman in Checkhov improvisation and speech formation. |
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Greg has been involved in the arts for the last 26 years. Starting out at high school as the A.V operator for school films and dances.
Music, dance & theatre has seen him work in such places ranging from The Peoples Republic of Brunswick, Footscray, Europe & Asia.
His most recient production has been the strange world of Harrold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" for the Melb Theatre Co and a reciently shot tele drama to go to air latter this year.
Greg goes train spotting when he is not preforming.
Iris Radovic is a recent VCA graduate with a Post Graduate diploma in puppetry. She also completed a Bachelor in Applied Theatre at Griffith University. She has worked with Woodford Theatre Company on numerous productions including shadow puppet versions of Spurt of Blood and Jumping Mouse. Iris was more recently a member of the Cyclown Circus in South East Asia performing for children and adults in disadvantaged communities. Last Updated (Monday, 17 August 2009 07:49)
Jasmine Powell is currently studying Diploma in Holistic Therapy and Masters of Social Work. She is a youth worker and assists young people who have experienced psychosis. Her arts background is predominantly in administration having worked as Festival Coordinator, Kew Community Festival (2006 & 2007) and as Assistant Producer, Fringe Furniture & Spontaneous Construction, Melbourne Fringe Festival (2004). She is a Graduate of Bachelor of Creative Arts (2003) and volunteered as Co-producer, Crunch Productions, The University of Melbourne (2002) and Co-producer, Yemaraki Arts, Montsalvat (2000-2002). She has been involved in Sanctum Theatre since its inception largely in a behind-the-scenes capacity though you can sometimes meet her in character. Last Updated (Tuesday, 08 September 2009 13:45)
Jon Drews completed studies in Architecture, Music and Art History in 2007. He currently works in Melbourne as an Architect and freelance percussionist and has collaborated as both a sound artist and percussionist with members of Sanctum theatre since 1999. His work in sound design explores the nexus between place, memory and belonging, creating fictitious and intimate sound environments using found objects, percussion and Realtime sampling.
He has worked with a wide range of established and emerging performance artists, musicians, dancers and film makers in Melbourne, Berlin and Galway, including recent collaborations with Astra chamber music society, Plum ensemble, Johnny Saw Horses and Underpass (Berlin). Recent projects with Sanctum Theatre include an interactive sound installation for the exhibition, Silent Revolution (2007), a live 8-channel sound matrix performance for The Plains: a play (2008), live music for Wealth of Nations (2009) and Corpus Christi (2005) and acting and live music for Bower: family portrait (2009). Last Updated (Monday, 17 August 2009 07:50)
Kirri Buchler is a violinist and sound designer who has been freelancing in Melbourne since 2002. She is currently studying Sound Art at RMIT Universtity. Previous work in a theatrical field include:
Q 4 A Dog (2002) with Well Theatre; Poppies (2002) a Westside Circus Production; Madam ZuZu (2003) a Fringe Mock Russian Cabaret; The Cherry Orchard (2004) directed by Kate Wild; The Picture of Dorian Gray (2005) a Dancing with Strangers production; Holy Gash (2005)written by Sandra Durso performed as part of the Comedy Festival; Faust (2006) a silent film screening with a live score; The Maids (2006) an Alliance d' Francaise; The Lower Depths (2006) directed by John Bolton; Sad Bird Boy and Other Tales of the City (2006) a Theatre in Decay production; Beyond Sheep (2007) with RoundAngle Sensory Theatre; Four Rogues (2008) with Tar Pit Productions as part of the Next Wave Festival; Deceased Estate (2008) with RoundAngle Sensory Theatre Company; Other Smells (2008) with RoundAngle Sensory Theatre Company; and most recently a Wealth of Nations (2009) with Sanctum Theatre in which she improvised with a small band to an “avant garage” performance.
The rest of the time she plays with various bands in Melbourne, and occasionally outside of.. It has always been a recurring dream of hers to run away with the Circus. Or be hit by a Tsunami. Hopefully the latter doesn’t come true for a while. Last Updated (Wednesday, 03 June 2009 15:40)
As artistic director of Sanctum Theatre Lachlan has directed and designed Lament: candles & compost (2006) and The Plains: a play (2008). He has also puppeteered and performed in both The Legend of Ned Kelly, Festival Centre, Adelaide, and the Arts Centre Melb (2007); and also in The Human Layer, winner of the Melbourne Fringe Visionary Award (2005). Collaborated on design for The Now Hour, also winner of the visionary award (2004). Written two plays including Fish out of Water in collaboration with Fenn Bailey, selected for the Next Wave Young Playwrights’ Competition (1994) and Prospect, performed at La Mama (2003). Has exhibited in various group exhibitions and one solo, including paintings, installation and land art and completed several commercial murals. Completed a post-graduate diploma in puppetry at the VCA (2005) and has completed a Masters of Theatre Practice, also at the VCA.
Click here to visit his folio page. Last Updated (Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:41)
Louise initially studied at Swinburne’s performing arts and then went on to train in the Michael Chekhov technique for three years. Her theatre credits include Lady Muck; a one person show from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Bremen; an award-winning fringe festival show, All's Well; an adaptation of Shakespeare at fortyfivedownstairs, Bold Girls at Chapel off Chapel, Antigone with The Hoist Theatre Company at fortyfivedownstairs, This Distracted Globe; an adaptation of Hamlet at La Mama,The Passion Play and Medea. Film credits include Mortal, Hotel Sorrento, and FAME –a mocumentary. She has studied voice extensively with Dawn Langman, and also with Susan Banford-Caleo and Sharon Thompson. Louise is a singer-songwriter-guitarist, and has performed around Melbourne and in Spain. She has recently been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2009 Michael Chekhov festival (MICHA) in New York.
Melissa Osborne is a Melbourne based painter and inspired by Louise Hearman, David Lynch, Twilight, Tawny Port, 17th Century Dutch paintings, My backyard, The Situationists, Theatrical lighting, Noise Electronica, Sophie Calle, and the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. She has studied film and video at the University of Sydney, and Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology. She exhibited solo in Japan in 2005, and participated in a group show part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2007. During 2005 -2008 she experimented in ink and graphite mediums. Melissa studied calligraphy and ink techniques in Kyoto in the summer of 2007. Currently she is studying Chinese history and and painting at Deakin University, and is now working in photography, and acyrlic on canvas.
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michael chalk has recently performed with a couple of choirs including first chorus band of singers. Plenty of theatre way back in the past, including a show at la mama. Mostly works in Adult Community Education (ACE). Writes about local stuff at http://michalk.id.au/5x5/ Last Updated (Thursday, 24 September 2009 07:34)
I like to make things. Sometimes with papar and scissors, sometimes with a sound recorder and sometimes with my own body and voice. My mode of expression depends on my mood which fluctuates between extroversion (body and voice) and introversion (paper and scissors). I graduated from the VCA in 2008 with a Post Grad Diploma in Animateuring which is a fancy name for theatre making. I trained in acting in New York but decided that being a poor but passionate theatre maker was much more appealing. I'm particularly drawn to physical, surreal interpretations of human relationships. Last Updated (Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:03)
Sam Downing has spent many years educating young people in English as a second language and producing Pitchfork school garden projects. Sam most enjoys taking people out to experience and interact with new environments. Her new responsibilities as border agent are introducing her to the joys of absolute power. She likes that when she tells people what to do, they listen.
Some of Tim's recent work includes National Trust –WHE Performance Development, The Plains, - Sanctum Theatre and Plan B – Rock and a Hard Place. Tim founded Fenestra Theatre Productions in 1991 and has been concentrating on directing and mentoring work in Melbourne.and Regional Victoria. Recent collaborations with Sanctum theatre have been very fruitful and we shall see what lies ahead. http://
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Last Updated (Tuesday, 22 September 2009 07:51)
Zoe Deverick was hatched from an egg in Kiwi land where she ascended through the ranks of thesbianhood to become the crowned Queen Of All New Zealand. She quickly graduated to Mebourne, Australia, where, disqualified from the Supreme Goddess Of All Australia Competition for having a retarded accent, she found herself down on her luck and forced to serve soup at the Wealth of Nations kitchen for Sanctum Theatre. This really turned out the be the best thing ever and she has never looked back since.
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