Experience

Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VET Co-ordinator and Compliance Manager

  • Jan 2018 - Present

• Director -Those who fall in love like anchors dropped upon the ocean floor - by Finegan Kruckemeyer

  • Feb 2018 - Mar 2018



Freelance Operator

• Freelance Director and Theatre professional

  • Dec 1993 - Present



Perform Australia

• VET Compliance Manager

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  Oversee and manage the compliance issues for the RTO. Responsible to the CEO.

• Teacher

  • Feb 2014 - Nov 2018

  As a Director I have directed 1 act plays, cabarets, musicals and scene work for various units within the Advanced Diploma of Acting course and the certificate 4 in Acting for Stage and Screen course. I have conducted Musical Theatre masterclasses as well as the Musical Theatre History component in the Diploma of Musical Theatre course. I have sorted and catalogued the CADA library for the purposes of better manageability and easier resourcing. One of the main units I deliver as a trained assessor is The Actor's Process unit, which details the techniques needed to refine character development from page to stage. I have developed curriculum for the Stage Craft unit in the Advanced Diploma course as well as refine other units of learning within the different course that are offered at CADA.

• Director - Ruthless The Musical! - by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird

  • Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

  Directed, co-choreographed, sound design, set design, costume design for this production

• Director - The Blood on Helmut Lange - By Gerry Greenland

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

• Director - The Gallery - By Judy Bierwirth

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

  Director, set design, lighting design. sound design, video design, costume design



Freelance

• Theatre Director

  • Jan 1986 - Present

  Oversee the preparation, rehearsal and production elements of various theatre and musical theatre productions. Also have performed in theatre and musical theatre productions. Oversee the preparation, rehearsal and production elements of various theatre and musical theatre productions. Also have performed in theatre and musical theatre productions.



Throwing Shade Theatre Company

• Sound Designer - The Caretaker - By Harold Pinter

  • Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

  Designed sound plot for show on Qlab software Designed sound plot for show on Qlab software



Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - United States of Mind - 20th Century American scenes

  • Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

• Director - N.Y Love - 20th Century American scenes

  • Feb 2017 - Apr 2017



Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - 100 Reasons for War - by Tom Hollaway

  • Jul 2016 - Nov 2016

• Director - Brothers, Sisters and Lovers - Cabaret

  • Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

• Director - You Still Here? - by Patricia Cornelius

  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

  Designed and Directed the production as part of the Certificate 3 in Performance course. Studied and utilised QLAB cueing software for the multi media aspect of the production. Used video projection as well as video mapping. Utilised audio recording as well as video recording. Editing of sound with the use of AUDACITY software. Choreographed movement pieces.

• Director - Great American Dreaming - Various playwrights

  • Feb 2016 - Apr 2016

  Director and designer for the Advanced Diploma in acting course. Selected and edited scenes from 20th Century American writer including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman,David Mamet and Tony Kushner. This particular performance unit had a research component attached, so I was required to develop a summary of 20th Century American playwright history and the history of Broadway to delivered to the students.



Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - See Rock City and other destinations -Music by Brad Alexander, Book and lyrics by Adam Ma

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  Director and designer of the Diploma of Musical Theatre end of year Major production. Director and designer of the Diploma of Musical Theatre end of year Major production.



Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - Saints and Sinners - Cabaret

  • Feb 2015 - Apr 2015



Perform Australia - RTO 40859

• Australia
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director/Writer - The Sound of Musicals - by Elizabeth Avery-Scott and Glenn Braithwaite

  • Aug 2014 - Nov 2014

  Devised, wrote, directed, set, sound, light, video and costume design. Performed by the graduating Diploma of musical theatre students.

• Director - Snapshots from Home - by Marjery Forde

  • Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  Co-Directed with Stephen Barker. Choreography as well as lighting and sound design.



Buckingham Bowls Club

• Bar Manager

  • 1995 - 2012

  Provide service and staff training. Manage stock and cellar. Stocktaking. Supervise and co-ordinate Bingo and other functions. Kitchen management as well as cooking for functions. Menu planning. Secretarial duties. Provide service and staff training. Manage stock and cellar. Stocktaking. Supervise and co-ordinate Bingo and other functions. Kitchen management as well as cooking for functions. Menu planning. Secretarial duties.



Old Nick Company

• Director - Beautiful Thing - by Johnathan Harvey

  • Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  Jonathan Harvey the writer of the hit B.B.C. series “Beautiful People” and “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme” received an Olivier nomination for “Beautiful Thing” as well as the John Whiting Award. After a sell out season on West End the play was turned into a screenplay in 1996 with Hettie Macdonald directing the film for Channel 4. This production of “Beautiful Thing“ was the Tasmanian premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s play. Produced by the Old Nick Company, the production was directed by V.C.A graduate Glenn Braithwaite with Set design by Carolyn Whamond. The cast includes actors; Clare Gray, Jessica Davies, Rowan Harris, Campbell McKenzie and Benjamin Winckle. “Beautiful Thing” was staged at the Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre. The show opened for a limited season on Friday 16th July 2010. The season ran until Saturday the 24th July 2010.