It’s the final day of the festival! It has been such a success and a great joy to be a part of! I’ve learnt a lot from watching the plays performed (via staged readings), particularly in this work-in-progress fashion: style, structure, when to reveal, when to conceal, creating a solid ending and engrossing an audience. It’s been lovely chatting with the playwrights about their process and the work that they may do to further finesse their pieces. I’ve been trying to work on my play but feel that I am at a point where I need an outside eye – I think I’m just muddling the whole thing up now!
Today’s Schedule
11.30am - Departure Lounge 4: Radio Writing Now
1pm - Destination: Melbourne 1967/2012
3pm - The Sun and the Other Stars (Destination: Australia)
7pm - Faces Look Ugly (Destination: Australia)
11pm - Triangle (MKA Presents the Red Eye Special)
9pm - Every Second (Destination: Australia)
Catch Vanessa Bates, playwright of Every Second as she chats about her hilarious yet quite profound play about the desperate rush to beat the ticking time bomb that is the biological clock and the use of everything and anything – IVF, herbal medicine, fertility dolls – to produce the pitter patter of tiny feet. Every second counts!
I am a Sydney-based actor and writer who graduated with Distinction from a Bachelor of Theatre Arts – Acting degree from the University of Southern Queensland. Since graduating, I have worked across Australia in both theatre and film and have worked internationally as a teacher and drama facilitator. This year, I produced and performed in my play, 'The Day the Galaxy Inevitably Exploded and Died' for the Sydney Fringe Festival (**Nominated for BEST OF THEATRE AWARD**). In 2013, I will be touring with Bell Shakespeare Company as part of their Education Programme, The Players.
This year I participated in Griffin Theatre’s Story Lab creative development program. I have completed a theatre-making internship with Version 1.0 on their projects The Major/Minor Party and The Tender Age, a co-production with ATYP. I have also undergone a marketing internship at Playwriting Australia for their National Play Festival 2012 in Melbourne and a rehearsal room internship for their first National Script Workshop in 2012. I write reviews for Artshub and am a guest blogger on the Griffin Artist Blog. I have also live-tweeted events such as the ATYP/Fresh Ink The Voices Project film premiere.
My playwriting work has been shortlisted in Queensland Theatre Company’s Young Playwright’s Program and has played at the Brisbane Powerhouse for the Backbone Youth Arts 2high Festival 2009. I am a proud member of MEAA.
