Digital Theatre Festival 2020 _ Lunacy

DIGITAL THEATRE FESTIVAL AUGUST 2020 nida.edu.au/digital-theatre-festival

WELCOME DIGITAL THEATRE FESTIVAL AUGUST 2020

I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the many lands on which we perform and present these projects. Here at NIDA, in Kensington NSW, we learn and tell stories on Bidjigal and Gadigal land and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging.

I am very excited to welcome you to NIDA’s Digital Theatre Festival.

Neither streamed theatre, nor film, this festival is unlike any other: the six projects have been created entirely from the ground up, specifically for audiences in the digital space, resulting in uniquely immersive, interactive and unusual experiences.

Collaborating with an exciting line up of directors, NIDA’s actors, designers, stage managers, theatre technicians, costumiers, props-makers and scenery-makers – among some of Australia’s brightest young imaginations – have applied incredible innovation and out-of-thebox thinking at every moment to create six rich and complex shows.

They have bravely pushed the boundaries of storytelling and learnt to make the most of the whole gamut of online platforms to engage audiences. Along the way, they have further developed their creative and agile thinking; attributes that I know our industry will be hungry for once they graduate from NIDA. Thank you for joining us on this ambitious journey. Together we might just be witnessing the invention of another future for the performing arts.

I would like to thank David Berthold, NIDA’s Director Centre for Creative Practices and Curator of the Digital Theatre Festival, for all his work and creative inspiration.

To finish, allow me to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank all our sponsors and donors, as well as the Australian Government via the Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, for their continuing support of NIDA and excellence in performing arts education.

Happy Digital Theatre Festival to all!

– Liz Hughes, CEO

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Written and directed by Pierce Wilcox 4, 6, 7 August, 9pm AEST 8 August, 1pm, 7pm AEST 9 August, 11am AEST Indicative running time 90 minutes The main problem with theatre is that there are never enough laser guns.

This is one of my guiding principles. The other is that everything is better in space.

Not solely for the aesthetics, although everyone deserves to witness the astonishing. Genre fiction can push ideas to their extremes and see what they look like under intense pressure, see if they break. It can test our notions of death, and desire, and gender, and ask if maybe we like laser guns too much and haven’t stopped to ask if conquest is the only way to meet something new.

Maybe there’s another way. Another future.

If there is a future, we need to build it together, and this process has been an example of how we might begin. Lunacy is a story of wild, brilliant people expanding the limits of the possible, and in that regard the entire team has far exceeded their fictional counterparts, displaying astronaut-level courage to step beyond their conventional roles and weave a medium-spanning universe. They possess all the genius and ambition of the crew of Eclipse Fourteen. Hopefully without the part where they go a trifle mad.

– Pierce Wilcox, Director & Writer

Lynsey Brown Presented by NIDA BFA Costume, BFA Properties and Objects, BFA Scenic Construction and Technologies, BFA Technical Theatre and Stage Management, BFA and MFA Design for Performance, MFA Writing and final year BFA Acting students.

Company

Sam Fairweather Dr Daniel Harbridge Jack Archer Violet West

Jason Jefferies Brodie Masini Ryan Panizza Alex Stamell

Writer/Director Pierce Wilcox** Set & Props Designer Adrienne Andrews Costume & Character Props Designer Monique Langford Technical Director/Swing SM/LX Designer/ Tom Houghton HLX/ VX & SND System Des & Sup/Human Counterweight/Archive Content Designer/ Assistant Archive Content Writer/ Website Development

Sound Designer/Broadcast Audio Mixer Anastasia Mowen

Project Manager/Technical Swing Cameron Smith

Stage Manager Filip Wyker

Assistant Stage Manager Philippa Morey

Sound Designer/Composer/ Kaitlyn Crocker

Boom OP 1/Mic Tech

Lead Visual Content Designer/ Trillian Vieira Director of Photography/Editor/Camera Call and Mix/Pre-Rec LX Designer

Visual Content Designer/Editor Tim McNaught

Construction Manager Nicholas Day**

Costume Supervisor Georgia Attewell-Moore

Properties Supervisor Daniel Druery

Camera Operators Pierce Wilcox** Tim McNaught Scott Cleggett

Voice Coach Robert Maxwell*

Voice Support Adam Lyon

Design Assistants Hailley Hunt Ruby Jenkins Kathleen Kershaw

Costume Assistants Lily Mateljan Tamsyn Balogh-Caristo

Properties Assistant Tallulah Baran

Construction Assistant Angus Nott *Guest artist

Technical Assisstant Scott Cleggett **NIDA staff

Special thanks to: Ryan Drum, Deano the Dino, Andy Ankylosaurus, Susie Henderson, Hannah Cox, Tansy Gardam, Priscilla Jackman, Chloe Paul, Sean Stewart, Sam Warner, Chameleon Touring Systems and Network Presence.

Graduating students 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)

Reb e cc a At t ana sio

Ayla B eaufils

A nna Clark

Leinad C oulthur s t

Philip D’A mbrosio

Mic aela Ellis

Charlot te G rimmer

T hom a s Hughe s

Ja s on Jef ferie s

L achlan Kent

Nathaniel L angwor thy

T hom a s Loveluck

Patrick Mandziy

Brodie Ma sini

A lb er t Mwangi

R yan Paniz za

Zo e Re snick

B randon S c ane

A lexandra St amell

A lana Stewar t

L uke V is entin

A lan Zhu

Je s sic a S pie s

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Costume)

G e orgia At tewell-Mo ore

Av ril B radbur yHoath

A llo quois C allaway

Te s s Healy

S arah Murdo ch

Emily Pire s

Iz Sperling

S idney Tulau

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)

Meret te B ou tros

Te s s B urg

O liv ia Hu tley

Jordan Leah

Ruru Zhu

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Properties and Objects)

A lexandra A llans on

Daniel D ruer y

L uc a s G uillemin

A m anda Torrisi

Bachelor of Fine Arts ( Technical Theatre and Stage Management)

T hom a s B ensley

T hom a s Houghton

Mali Tauro Cesca

A mellia B ruderlin

K hyam C ox

Je s s e G reig

L ucia Haddad

Fiona Harding

Daniel Her ten

Jennifer Jackson

Morgan Moroney

A na s t a sia Mowen

Ros e Mulc are

C ameron S mith

L achlan Ste el

Monique L angford

Rit a Naidu

Ella Van Dam

Mellit a Ver tigan

Master of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)

Adrienne A ndrews

S om a G arner

A ngus Kons ti

Claudia K r ys zk iew ic z

LEADERSHIP TEAM Chief Executive Officer Liz Hughes General Manager Alistair Graham Chief Financial Officer Sujeet Jena Executive Director Pathways and Partnerships Mark Gaal Head of Business Transformation Priscilla Hunt Director Student Engagement, Learning and Quality Assurance Kylie Black Director Centre for Acting John Bashford Director Centre for Technology, Production and Management Graham Henstock Director Centre for Creative Practices David Berthold Director Centre for Design Practices Dr Julie Lynch Director Public Programs Tricia Ryan Director NIDA Corporate Vanessa White Head of Development and Alumni Lisa Hamilton Head of Marketing and Communications Laetitia Shepherd Company Secretary Julia Mant ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF Producer Diane Misirdjieff Operations Manager Charlene Griffiths → CENTRE FOR ACTING Head of Movement, Senior Lecturer Gavin Robins

Property Services Principal Partner

Head of Music, Senior Lecturer Andrew Ross Head of Voice, Course Leader (MFA Voice) Katerina Moraitis Project and Administration Coordinator Mahsa Foroughi → CENTRE FOR CREATIVE PRACTICES Senior Lecturer and Course Leader Common Subjects Dr Suzanne Osmond Lecturer Common Subjects Priscilla Jackman Lecturer Common Subjects Pierce Wilcox Lecturer Design and Common Subjects Tobhiyah Stone-Feller Course Leader Cultural Leadership Karilyn Brown Head of Directing, Course Leader Dr Benjamin Schostakowski Head of Writing for Performance, Course Leader Dr Stephen Sewell Project and Administration Coordinator Elizabeth Shearer → CENTRE FOR DESIGN PRACTICES Costume Head of Costume, Course Leader Annette Ribbons Lecturer Costume Marcia Lidden Associate Lecturer Costume Daniela Viola

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