xanthe
beesley
movement director / theatre maker
Selected CV.
QUALIFICATIONS
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
SELECT WORK HISTORY
Current: Artistic Director, Union House Theatre @ Uni Melb Student Union (UMSU)
2018 - 2020: Co Artistic Director with Petra Kalive, Union House Theatre @ Uni Melb Student Union (UMSU)
2018 - 2020: Artistic Program Manager, La Mama Theatre
2016 and 2017: Producer, Melbourne Fringe Festival (Independent Program)
2014 - 2016: Artist Services Coordinator, Melbourne Fringe Festival
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
MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND CONSULTATION
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).
THEATRE MAKING: DIRECTING, FACILITATION, COLLABORATION
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)
TEACHING / FACILITATION
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
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AWARDS, BOARD MEMBERSHIP
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...