Theatre & Festivals
Rose Scott Women Writers' Festival
The Rose Scott Women Writers' Festival is a literary festival run, owned and operated by women for women writers. It showcases the rich diversity of contemporary Australian women writers across fiction and non-fiction, in print, performance and digital media which explore personal, social and political issues. It has recently been described as 'one of the most significant literary festivals on Sydney's cultural calendar' (stella.org.au).
Australia’s international literary standing been elevated by the release of a raft of astounding debut authors and publications offering fresh perspectives from first nations communities and culturally and linguistically diverse peoples across the nation, with Australian women writers leading the charge on redefining representations of our culture on the national and international stage.
RSWWF celebrates its 10th anniversary in this context of booming cultural strength and unprecedented complexity and nuance.
This year’s festival will draw on the legacy of Rose Scott’s famously vibrant salons, while keeping at its core the values of The Women’s Club founders who were driven by their vision of a more equitable and inclusive society for all Australians.
Voices At The Market
A new multi-playwright project developed with the PWC Playwriting fellows and associates arriving in Minneapolis/ St Paul, Minnesota.
The Playwrights' Center was founded in 1971 by five writers seeking artistic and professional support, the Playwrights' Center today serves more playwrights in more ways than any other organization in the USA.
Our project is focused on two locally significant sites selected by the writers, offering them an opportunity to observe and connect with the community and place - it's history, its aspirations and its architecture in all its complexity, beauty and nuance
Creative Director: Augusta Supple Dramaturg: Lynde Rosario
Written by: L.Q. Xu, Johanna Keller Flores, Minghao Tu, Francisca Da Silveira, Tylie Shider
Singled Out
An inter-generational, multi-playwright project reflecting the rise of one-person households in Sydney. Created for The Reginald Season at The Seymour Centre, offers an insight into the lives of many, Singled Out is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits – colliding and intersecting – revealing flights of fancy, the gentle musings or the robust reflections on what it means to be living alone in a city.
Director/Creative Producer: Augusta Supple Producer: Saskia Vromans
Lighting Designer: Sian James Holland
Music composed by: Jessica Chapnik Kahn Sound Design: Leigh Perrett
Choreographer: Cloe Fournier Graphic Designer: Tom Christopherson
Written by: Vanessa Bates, Wayne Blair, Luke Carson, Sarah Carradine, Emma Magenta, Grace De Morgan, Alli Sebastian Wolf, Tim Spencer.
Cast: Paul Armstrong, Roland Baker, Josipa Draisma, Alex Bryant Smith, Richard Cox, The Dancing Accountant, Eloise Snape, Kate Fitzpatrick, Leof Kingsford Smith, Rosie Lourde, Amber McMahon, Bali Padda, Amanda Stephens Lee.
Mayday Playwrights' Festival
Mayday Playwrights' Festival
Three- weeks of new Australian plays, held at The Tap Gallery Theatre, Sydney. Featuring 15 writers, 10 directors, 19 actors, the Mayday Playwrights Festival co-produced/co-curated by Jeremy Waters and Augusta Supple.
Week 1: No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames
In celebration of 7-on's publication of the same name, No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames is a suite of self-contained monologues.
Director: Augusta Supple
Writers: 7-On: Hilary Bell, Noelle Janaczewska, Verity Laughton, Vanessa Bates, Donna Abela, Ned Manning
Cast: Kate Skinner, Stephen Wilkinson, Alice Ansara, Megan Drury, Suz Mawer, Jennifer White
Week 2: The Solitudes
A collection of monologues by some of Australia’s most exciting and dynamic writers, exploring love, loss and the universe.
Directors: Ngaire O’Leary, Mackenzie Steele, Fiona Hallenan-Barker, Augusta Supple, Anthony Skuse, Kai Raisbeck, Kate Gaul, Nick Atkins
Writers: Shannon Murdoch, Ava Karuso, Melita Rowston, Jonathan Gavin, Noelle Janaczewska, David Finnigan, Maxine Mellor, Julia-Rose Lewis,
Cast: Lauren Hamilton-Neill, Sonya Kerr, Ainsley McGlynn, Matthew Charleston, Catherine Terracini, Alex Bryant-Smith, Claudia Barrie and Aaron Glenane, Luke Carson, Tom Christopherson
Week 3: Little Gods
A new full-length play by Nicholas Hope. In “Little Gods”, three different men come face to face with their own shattering crisis. Their responses will shape the rest of their lives.
Writer and Director: Nicholas Hope
Cast: Jeremy Waters, Robert Alexander, Dominic McDonald
A View From Moving Windows
Harnessing the creative talents of Sydney’s most dynamic and prestigious playwrights, A View From Moving Windows is inspired by train travel to and from the thriving and vibrant geographical centre of Sydney, Parramatta. Created as a part of the True West season, Riverside theatre's Parramatta.
Director/Producer: Augusta Supple
Composer: Jeremy Silver Additional Music by: Jessica Chapnik & Nadav Kahn
Set Design: Marissa Dale Johnson Lighting Design: Sian James Holland
Written by: Donna Abela, Vanessa Bates, Jessica Bellamy, John AD Fraser, Noelle Janaczewska, Nicholas Parsons, Teik-Kim Pok, Emrys Quin, Alison Rooke
Cast: Valentino Del Toro, Helen O’Leary, Catherine Glavicic, Craig Meneaud, Corinne Marie, Bridgette Sneddon, Ildiko Susany, Shauntelle Benjamin, Peter Maple, Barton Williams, Alex Bryant Smith, Natalia Ladyko, Melinda Dransfield, Damian Sommerlad
I Contain Multitudes
I Contain Multitudes is a collection of seven short monologues from Australian playwright collective 7-on. Included in a playwright-led, curated and produced month of celebration, discussion and production under the title "NovemberISM." NovemberISM is an initiative of ISM - a playwright collective focused on practice and process between peers.
Director: Augusta Supple
Producer/ curators: 7-on & ISM (Tamara Asmar, Kit Brookman, Rebecca Clarke, Tahli Corin, Joanna Erskine & Glace Chase)
Composer Michael Imielski Stage manager: Oliver Rynn
Written by 7-on: Donna Abela, Vanessa Bates, Hilary Bell, Noelle Janaczewska, Verity Laughton, Ned Manning, Catherine Zimdahl.
Cast: Matt Charleston, Melinda Dransfield, Felix Jozeps, Stephen Wilkinson, Jennifer White, Madeleine Jones and Josipa Draisma.
Women, Power & Culture - Then and Now
Women, Power & Culture – Then and Now was a season of new works by women theatre makers - writers, directors, designers and crew - at New Theatre, Sydney.
Curated and commissioned by legendary Artistic Director Louise Fischer, "Women, Power and Culture then and now" was a two-week repertory festival of thought-provoking women-led theatre examining the role of women in contemporary Australia.
I was directed two works for the season: Vanessa Bates' "The Night We Lost Jenny" performed by Jane Phegan and "The Sex Act" written by Alana Valentine, performed by Bridgette Sneddon, Stephen Wilkinson, Luke Carson, Kate Skinner and Odile LeClezio.
Writers: Van Badham, Vanessa Bates, Zoe Hogan, Verity Laughton, Danielle Maas, Maxine Mellor, Suzie Miller, Katie Pollock, Gina Schien, Alana Valentine and Kathryn Yuen
Directors: Alice Livingstone, Carla Moore, Ngaire O’Leary, Annette Rowlison, Augusta Supple, Susannah Thompson
Season Director: Louise Fischer Set Designer: Jess Martin Lighting Designer: Jodi Speight Production Manager: Elly Goodman Stage Manager: Ruth Horsfall
Brand Spanking New
Brand Spanking New at the New Theatre, Sydney was a two-week celebration of new Australian writing by emerging and established playwrights held annually from 2008-2010.
As the Season Artistic Director, I commissioned, coordinated the festival team including open script callouts and actor auditions resulting in a kaleidoscopic showcase of new writing by Australia's leading (and soon to be leading) playwrights.
Brand Spanking New 2008
With work written by: Jessica Bellamy, Alex Broun, Jo-Anne Cahill, Alexandra Cullen, Joanna Erskine, Patrick Lenton, Augusta Supple, Van Badham, Hilary Bell, Suzanne Hauser, Tom Holloway, Noelle Janaczewska, Nick Parsons and Lachlan Philpott
Brand Spanking New 2009
With work written by: Tamara Asmar, Vanessa Bates, Jessica Bellamy, Jonathan Ari Lander, Phil Spencer, Jonathan Gavin, Ross Mueller, Glace Chase, Kit Brookman, Verity Laughton, Sonal Moore, Patrick Lenton, Timothy Daly, Maxine Mellor, Mary Rachel Brown
Brand Spanking New 2010
With work written by: Kate Mulvany, Ned Manning, Tim Spencer, Suzie Miller, Caleb Lewis, Donna Abela, Anna Lise Phillips, Joanna Erskine, Fleur Beaupert, Alison Rooke, Phil Spencer, Rebecca Clarke, Katie Pollock
Stories from the 428
Sixteen playwrights travel on the 428 buses from Sydney's Circular Quay - past a much-loved inner-west theatre on Addison Road - to the end of the line in Canterbury. The result is a multi-playwright project reflecting the beauty and the boredom of bus travel.
Director/Creative Producer: Augusta Supple Producer: Gavin Roach
Lighting Designer: Grant Moxom Music composed by: Rosie Chase
Written by: Vanessa Bates, Kit Brookman, Rebecca Clarke, Sime Knezevic, Ned Manning, Brooke Robinson, Alison Rooke,Phil Spencer, Donna Abela, Tahli Corin, Matt Edgerton, Joanna Erskine, Lexi Freiman, Noelle Janaczewska, Patrick Lenton and Jasper Marlow.
Directed by: Zoe Carides, Glenn Hazeldine, Augusta Supple, Ian Zammit, Louise Fischer, Anne-Maree Magi, Scott Selkirk, Ngaire O’Leary.
Cast: Anna Lise Phillips, Rob Jago, Stephen Peacocke, Emma Jones, Jan Langford-Penny, Brendan Hawke, Leo Domigan, Felix Jozeps, Bridgette Sneddon, Julian Ramundi, Suz Mawer, Amy Kersey, Jovana Miletic, Felix Gentle, Adam Demos, Helena Stamoulis, Mairead Berne, Eamon Bryant, Lib Campbell, Mark Dessaix, Luke Carson, Clare Blumer, Daniel Nemes, Mary Sherman, Felino Dolloso, Bruno Xavier, Nick Curnow, Carla Nirella, Will Snow, Jay Duncan, Lucy Goleby, John Keightley, Patrick Magee, Emma Harris, Sophie Hayden, Cheryl Ward, Matilda Ridgeway, Maggie Blinco, Phillip Hinton, Matthew Charleston, Josipa Draisma, Toby Villis and Alice Kheohavong
Meta.Mor/Phases
A program of new Australian works previously unperformed or in development presented at PACT Theatre, Erskineville, Sydney.
Creative Producer: Augusta Supple
Written by: Anne Maree Magi, Jessie Hoebeck, Adam Gelin, Nerida Woods, Helen Stuart, Augusta Supple, Emily Ayoub, Sally Evans, Penny Hall, Kate Worsely
Directed by: Anne Maree Magi, Skye, Kunstelj, Morgan Healy, Adam Gelin, Marcel Bracks, Felicity Nicol, Augusta Supple, Evin Donohoe, Shondelle Pratt, Irena Haze
Cast: Jessie Hoebeck, Adam Gelin, Helen Stuart, Jemma Zadkovich, Jacob Thomas, Greg Hatton, Edmund Iffland, Jessica Falkholt, Bel Delia, Will Snow, Ro Dempsey, Felicity Burke, Brooke Ryan, David Burdon, Leo Kim, Jonathan Coates, Emily Ayoub, Sally Evans, Penny Hall, Kate Worsely.