Australia Council backs our emerging Indigenous producers in the performing arts

16 August 2011

The Australia Council for the Arts is delighted to announce the establishment of four mentorships for emerging Indigenous producers

Queensland Performing Arts Centre is looking to fill their Indigenous Producer position as part of EIPM. For more information about the position please see http://www.qpac.com.au/careers/jobs/information/?n=39315.

 

Upcoming Indigenous performing arts producers Lara Croydon, Alison Murphy-Oates and Rosealee Pearson will team up with some of Australia’s leading arts organisations, as part of the Australia Council’s Emerging Indigenous Producers Mentorships (EIPM), a new program designed to assist Indigenous producers develop their professional skills, expertise and knowledge in the performing arts sector. As a key initiative of the Australia Council's Indigenous Market Development Strategy, the producers will be employed and mentored over an 18-month period starting in 2011.

 

EIMP and mentors

2011 recipients of the 2011 Emerging Indigenous Producers Mentorships and their mentors - (From left) Beck Dean (mentor);
Alison Murphy-Oates; Deb Murphy (mentor); Todd MacDonald (mentor); Joshua Bond; Rosealee Pearson; Brenna Hobson (mentor);
Michelle Kotevski (mentor); Lara Croydon; Merindah Donnelly (Indigenous Program Officer, Market Development).

 

EIPM 2011 recipients

Recipient Biography
Lara Croydon, Emerging Indigenous Producers Mentorships recipient

Lara Croydon
Lara is currently undertaking an honours degree in Fine Arts (Drama) in Indigenous theatre at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her focus is on applying intercultural communication theory to Indigenous work. Lara’s experience includes working as a stage manager for the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts’ Season Black, on Vena Cava’s production of “Oh the Humanity” and as director for "Seating Arrangements", a 2010 QUT production.

Lara will undertake her mentorship with Queensland Theatre Company (QTC).
Alison Murphy-Oates, Emerging Indigenous Producers Mentorships recipient

Alison Murphy-Oates
Alison is a Darkinjung woman from the Central Coast of New South Wales, and descendant of the Wiradjuri nation from Warren in the Central West of New South Wales. Since graduating from the BA (Design for Theatre and Television) at Charles Sturt University in 2009, Alison’s experience has included working as a production assistant on Message Sticks and the Luminous Festival through the Indigenous Traineeship Program at the Sydney Opera House, as well as Project Manager of IndigeLab 2009 for Performance Space.

Alison joins Performance Space again after a year and a half with Arts NSW as Administrative Officer in Capacity and Development, an Aboriginal identified position supported by the NSW Government’s Elsa Dixon Employment Program. Alison has a passion for performance making and volunteers her time to stage manage independent productions around Sydney. She is currently studying for a Masters in Arts Management at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Alison will work with Performance Space, in conjunction with Producer Marguerite Pepper, during her mentorship.
Rosealee Pearson, Emerging Indigenous Producers Mentorships recipient

Rosealee Pearson
Rosealee is a Yolngu woman from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land. She graduated from NAISDA Dance College in 2005 and in 2011 was the recipient of the Indigenous Technical Theatre Production Initiative. Rosealee’s production experience includes working as the Company Manager and Assistant Stage Manager for Ngurrumilmarrmirw, (Wrong Skin) with Director Nigel Jamieson, as a Cultural Consultant Fight or Flight and Briwyant with choreographer Vicki Van Hout, and as a Production Assistant on Windmill Baby for Belvoir St Theatre.

Rosealee will be completing her mentorship and training with Urban Theatre Projects and Belvoir.

 

 

More information

For further information please see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, www.australiacouncil.gov.au/artforms/aboriginal_and_torres_strait_islander_arts.

 

 

Credits—Group photo: Tracey Warnecke. Image courtesy of the photographer.

Tagged: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts

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