xanthe
beesley
movement director / theatre maker
Selected CV.
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QUALIFICATIONS
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Master of Theatre Practice (Animateuring) Victorian College of the Arts
Bachelor of Creative Industries (Hons) Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (Drama) Queensland University of Technology
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SELECT WORK HISTORY
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Current: Artistic Director, Union House Theatre @ Uni Melb Student Union (UMSU)
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2018 - 2020: Co Artistic Director with Petra Kalive, Union House Theatre @ Uni Melb Student Union (UMSU)
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2018 - 2020: Artistic Program Manager, La Mama Theatre
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2016 and 2017: Producer, Melbourne Fringe Festival (Independent Program)
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2014 - 2016: Artist Services Coordinator, Melbourne Fringe Festival
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Programming and Project Coordination: Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, State Library of Queensland.
Event and Venue Management: Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Garden of Unearthly Delights, Summersault Festival
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MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND CONSULTATION
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Happy Days (Melbourne Theatre Company); Let Bleeding Girls Lie and The Grief Trilogy (Voice in My Hands); Laurinda, (Melbourne Theatre Company); Touching the Void (Melbourne Theatre Company); Emilia, The Play (Essential Theatre /GPAC/ ACM); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Melbourne Theatre Company); My Brilliant Career (Monash Academy of Performing Arts); Ida (Union House Theatre); Oil Babies (Lab Kelpie Productions/Darebin Arts Speakeasy); Ricercar (Present Tense Ensemble/Theatre Works); The Yonder Project (Kite Theatre/QPAC).
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THEATRE MAKING: DIRECTING, FACILITATION, COLLABORATION
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Do Everything Now Before the World Ends (Union House Theatre) Nora: A Doll’s House (Union House Theatre); The Lonely Crowd (Union House Theatre); The Switch (Union House Theatre); between here and when i tell you (Union House Theatre); things we should talk about (Union House Theatre); Body Move Space (Footscray Community Arts Centre); In Plan (Performer/Collaborator - Michael Heave/Castlemaine Festival); Movement in Conversation (Fusion Theatre); Me, My Selfie & I (Signal Art Space/ACMI); ARTICLE 1, (Assistant Director/ Dramaturge Victorian College of the Arts); Shhhhh! (La Mama Theatre); Project X (La Mama Theatre)
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TEACHING / FACILITATION
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Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Theatre Company, Union House Theatre, Rawcus Ensemble, University of Melbourne, Arts Access Victoria, Footscray Community Arts Centre: Artlife Program, Fusion Theatre Dandenong, Contact Inc.,KITE theatre, Backbone Youth Arts, Griffith University, Queensland Theatre, Queensland University of Technology, University of Southern Queensland
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AWARDS, BOARD MEMBERSHIP
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Member - University of Melbourne Theatre Board
Women in Theatre Program - Melbourne Theatre Company 2019
Barbara Manning Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies
Co-chair / panel member - Green Room Awards Association (Independent Theatre) 2012 - 2017
Awards Judge Melbourne Fringe... too many years...
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