EDUCATION / TRAINING:
2007 to 2013 Recommenced classical ballet training
1995 to 2013 Suzuki
Actor Training Method
1993 to 2013 Astanga Yoga
1998 to 2000 Suzuki Actor Training Method - Suzuki Company
of Toga - Japan
1991 to 1992 Queensland University of Technology - Academy
of the Arts, Associate Degree of Arts (Dance)
1989 to 1990 Queensland Dance School of Excellence
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS/ADVISORIES
2010 to 2013 SOUTHBANK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Course director & coordinator of the Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting) course
2008 to 2013 Selected artist for the QLD MAPS for Artists (Managing and Producing Services) Program
2001 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS , Peer Panel Assessor, Dance Board - for the Australian Fedral Government
COMPANIES / COLLECTIVES:
2018 ROBERT THE CAT
010 to 2013 RRAMP HOUSE - Christine Johnston, Lisa O'Neill, Peter Nelson and Lelia Maraun
2002 to 2010 THE
BRIDES OF FRANK
1998 to 2009 TRANSMUTE
COLLECTIVE – Director Keith Armstrong
1995 to 2007 FRANK
THEATRE – Directors Jacqui Carroll
and John Nobbs
1996 to 1997 THE
CHERRY HERRING (Independent artist run space)
1993 to 1994 DARC SWAN DANCE COMPANY, Sydney
PERFORMANCE
WORK: (selected shows)
RRAMP - the Collector, the Archivist & the Electrocrat (Music/Theatre - RRAMP HOUSE)
- 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
- 2012 Brisbane Powerhouse
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2012 Carriage Works, Sydney
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2012 Salamnca Arts Centre, Hobart
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2012 Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
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2012 Artshouse, Melbourne
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2011 World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
FLUFF (Music/Theatre - RRAMP HOUSE)
- 2013 IPAY (International Performing Arts for Youth) Philadelphia, USA
- 2011 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
- 2009 The Sydney Festival
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2009 The Auckland Festival, New Zealand
- 2009 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
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2009 Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
- 2008 ASSITEJ international conference for young people, Adelaide
- 2008 The Arts Centre, Melbourne
- 2006 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
- 2004 Sydney Opera House
- 2004 Windmill Performing Arts, Adelaide Festival Centre
- 2002 Out of the Box Festival, QPAT
THE PIPE MANAGER (Dance/Theatre - Lisa O'Neill)
- 2011 Solo Dance Festival, Expressions Dance Company
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2010 The Pipe Manager Graphic Novel, Published by Playlab
- 2009 Brisbane Powerhouse premiere
- 2008 Brisbane Powerhouse - creative development showing
- 2007 The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts - creative dvelopment showing
PINEAPPLE
QUEEN (Theatre - Norman
Price & Lisa O'Neill, directed by Ian Lawson)
- 2009 La Boite Theatre premiere
- 2006/2007 Metro Arts - Creative development showings
- 2005 DA DA Cabaret Series, The Zoo, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
- 2005 Frank Summer Expo, Brisbane Powerhouse
INTIMATE
TRANSACTIONS (Interactive performance
installation - Transmute Collective)
- 2009 Australian regional tour
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2008 Synthetic Times, media Arts China 2008, Beijing, China
- 2006 The Performance Space and Arts Space
- 2006 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
- 2006 Bios Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 2005 The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2005 Australian Centre for the Moving Image and QUT Creative Personnel Industries Precinct
- 2005 Prix Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
- 2005 B.Tween Festival, Doncaster, England, 2005
MANGA ULYSSES (Frank Theatre and Southbank Institute of Tafe)
- 2006 Brisbane Powerhouse
TIL DEATH DO US PART (Theatre - The
Brides of Frank)
- 2009 Metro Arts
- 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival
- 2005/2007 Brisbane Powerhouse
SWEET YETI (Dance - Lisa O'Neill))
- 2006 Velocity, QUT Creative Personnel Industries Precinct
- 2000 New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2000 Three Frank Women, Metro Arts
- 2000 Australian Dance Week, Queensland Art Gallery
- 2000 Brisbane City Gallery
PIANISSIMO (Music/Theatre - Lisa O’Neill and Christine Johnston)
- 2004 Sydney Opera House
- 2003 Magdalena International Women’s Festival, QPAT
MACBETH (Frank
Theatre)
- 2005 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
- 2004 The Sabana Foundation Adana Theatre Festival, Turkey
- 2003 European Regions Festival, Czech Republic
- 1998 Australian Shakespeare Festival
- 1997 Karnak Playhouse
- 1995 Metro Arts
FUGU SAN (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 2005 The Click, The Institute of Modern Art
- 2002 Asia Contemporary Dance Festival, Osaka, Japan
- 2002 New Territories Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2002 Bodyworks, Dancehouse
- 2001 Scope, The Performance Space
- 2000 L’attitude 27.5, Brisbane Powerhouse
GROUNDED
LIGHT (Performance Installation - Lisa O’Neill, Keith
Armstrong and
Ben Marks)
- 2003 The Floating Land Festival, Noosa
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S ROMEOS (Frank
Theatre)
- 2003 Brisbane Powerhouse
THE LOVE THAT WE KNEW (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
2003 - The Click, The Institute of modern Art
OEDIPUS REX (Frank
Theatre)
- 2003 MKFm International Youth Theatre Festival, Pula, Croatia
- 2004 Brisbane Powerhouse
DOLL SEVENTEEN (Frank
Theatre)
- 2004 Karnak Playhouse
- 2003 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
- 2002 The Brisbane Festival
RASHOMON (Frank
Theatre)
- 2004 The Brisbane Festival
- 2001 Brisbane Powerhouse
MYRRHA (Theatre - Directed by Diane Cilento)
- 2002 Brisbane Powerhouse
FRANK EXPO (Frank
Theatre)
2001-2005 - Brisbane Powerhouse
GHOSTING (Performance installation - Jeremy Hynes & Lisa O'Neill)
- 2007/2001 The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
RODIN’S KISS (Dance/Theatre - Lisa O’Neill & Caroline Dunphy)
- 2001 L’attitude 27.5, Brisbane Powerhouse
TAIKOZ (Frank
Theatre and Taikoz)
- 2001 Brisbane Powerhouse
DOUBLE VISION (Theatre - Directed by Maryanne Lynch)
-2001 Queensland Performing Arts Trust
LIQUID
GOLD (Performance installation - Transmute Collective)
- 2001 Brisbane Powerhouse and Site Gallery, England
HEAVY METAL HAMLET (Frank
Theatre)
- 2000 Shizuoka International Arts Festival, Japan
- 1998 Olympic Sea Change Festival
TOKYO VOGUE (Frank
Theatre)
- 1999 Brisbane City Gallery
GLOBAL ARTS LINK OPENING (Frank
Theatre)
- 1999 Global Arts Link Gallery
TRANSIT
LOUNGE (Performnace installation - Transmute
Collective)
- 1999 Metro Arts
TEARDROP
EXPLODES (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 1991 Cityscapes, Australian Dance Week
SALOME (Frank Theatre)
- 1998 Toga International Arts Festival, Japan
- 1999 Karnak Playhouse
- 1998 Price Theatre
- 1997 Princess Theatre
YETI
IN E MINOR (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 1998 Options Dance Festival
- 1996 Cherry Herring
MARBLE (Dance/Theatre - Lisa O’Neill and Christina Koch)
- 1997 Brisbane Stage X Festival, Metro Arts
ELECTRIC
HERRING (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 1997 Brisbane Fringe Festival
THE TRAGEDY OF OEDIPUS (Frank
Theatre)
- 1997 Woodward Theatre
- 1995 Riverstage Botanical Gardens
- 1995 Princess Theatre
PROJECT
#14 (Performance installation - Directed by Keith Arnstrong)
- 1996 Brisbane Festival
ROMEO AND JULIET (Frank
Theatre)
- 1996 Karnak Playhouse
- 1996 Princess Theatre
MUSIC THAT PAINTS PICTURES (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 1996 Queensland Performing Arts Centre
ROMANCE OF ORPHEUS (Frank
Theatre)
- 1996 Bunya Mountains
KAMIKAZE BUSKERS
-1995 Warana Brisbane Festival
SWEET
YETI (Dance - Lisa O'Neill)
- 1995 Brisbane Fringe Festival, Crab Room
RED CAR WHITE HOUSE (Darc Swan Dance Company - Choreographed by Lisa O'Neill)
- 1994 Sydney Fringe Festival
- 1994 Dance Collections, The Performance Space
- 1995 Byron Bay Arts festival
- 1995 University of New England
- 1994 Taylor Square Arts Festival
DIRECTING WORK:
Southbank Institute of Technology;
- 2013 A MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS by Caryl Churchhill
- 2013 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 7, Show Your Tongue by Gunter grass
- 2012 THE BED BUG by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- 2012 WHO'S AFRAID OF THE WORKING CLASS by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas & Melissa Reeves
-2012 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 6, The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
- 2011 A SWEET LIFE by Norman Price
- 2011 THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller
- 2011 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 5, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 2010 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL by Nikolai Gogol
- 2010 LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes
- 2010 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 4, The Waste Land by T.S Eliot
- 2009 THE MARAT SADE by Peter weiss
- 2009 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 3
- 2009 TARTUFFE by Moliere
- 2008 THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PROJECT
- 2008 A SWEET LIFE by Norman Price
- 2008 BOOTCAMP ROYALE 2
- 2007 HAND LUGGAGE by Norman Price
- 2007 BOOTCAMP ROYALE
- 2006 THE TROJAN WOMAN by Euripides
- 2006 LIEBESTREU
- 2005 KABARET
- 2005 THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA by Lorca
- 2004 TRAPPED IN DREAMS
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK:
-2005 WOMEN IN VOICE 14 , Queensland Performing Arts Centre
-2004 URBAN DINGOES, La
Boite Theatre
-1999/2001 DECENT SPINSTER by Christine Johnston
-2001 THE FALL, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-2000 IN TRANSIT, Hungry Hill Dance Project
-1998/1999 WOMEN & ADDICTION by Caroline Dunphy & Christina Koch
-1999 THE PEACOCK, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-1998/1999 BLUE NARCISSUS By Kamal Krishna BEMAC
-1998 BRITTLE, Brink Visual Theatre Company
-1997 THE CATERPILLAR, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-1997 ANNIE LEE PROJECT
-1997 VIOLENCE FREE ZONE PROJECT, East Brisbane Primary School - Artist in Residence
-1996 THE STROLL, The Queensland Ballet
-1994 RED CAR WHITE HOUSE, Darc Swan Dance Company
MENTORSHIP PROJECTS:
-2004 PORTAL by Ann Fuata, Backbone Youth Theatre
-2001 AGONY IN THE GARDEN by Kamal Krishna, Stage X Festival
-2001 MODEL WEARS DEATH by Leah Shelton, Stage X Festival
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:
-2005 UP JUMPED THE DEVIL, Frank Theatre - actor
-2000/2001 BAD MOTHERS, Maryanne Lynch - Performer/Choreographer
COMMISSIONED WORK:
-2011/2012 RRAMP - the Collector, the Archivist & the Electrocrat, Brisbane Powerhouse
-2009 THE PINEAPPLE QUEEN, Southbank Institute of Technology
-2003 PIANISSIMO, Queensland Performing Arts Centre
-2003 THE LOVE THAT WE KNEW, The Click, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
-2000 FUGU SAN, Brisbane Powerhouse
-2001 GHOSTING, Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts
-2001 THE FALL, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-1999 THE PEACOCK, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-1999 TEADROP EXPLODES, Australian Dance Week, Ausdance QLD
-1997 THE CATERPILLAR, Queensland Dance School of Excellence
-1997 MARBLE, Brisbane Stage X Festival, QPAT
-1996 THE STROLL, The Queensland Ballet
MAJOR GRANTS:
-2011 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - New Work- RRAMP
-2011 ARTS QUEENSLAND - New Work - RRAMP
-2009 ARTS QUEENSLAND - Production & Presentation- The Pipe Manager
-2008 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - New Work - The Pipe Manager
-2007 ARTS QUEENSLAND - New Work - Pineapple Queen Merde
-2007 ARTS QUEENSLAND - New Work - The Pipe Manager
-2007 ARTS QUEENSLAND - New Work - Til Death do us Part - The Brides of Frank
-2005 BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL SPARKS PROGRAM - Creative Development
Project – The Brides
of Frank
-2005 ARTS QUEENSLAND - To attend The National Review of Live Art -
Glasgow, Scotland
-2002 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS – To attend the Asia Contemporary
Dance Festival – Osaka, Japan
-2002 ARTS QUEENSLAND - To attend New Territories Festival - Glasgow,
Scotland
-2001 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - New Work ‘Rodin’s Kiss’
-2000 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - To attend New Moves festival
- Glasgow, Scotland
-1999 ARTS QUEENSLAND - Individual Professional Development Programme - Travel
to Japan to attend theTheatre Olympics -1998 ARTS QUEENSLAND - Creative Development
Project - Women & Addiction
-1998 ARTS QUEENSLAND - Development - Marble 45 Minute Dance Film
-1997 ARTS QUEENSLAND - New Work - Marble - Brisbane Stage X Festival
RESIDENCIES:
-2007 THE BELL TOWER CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP - Ausdance, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
-2006 THE PERFORMANCE SPACE, Sydney - The Transmute Collective
-2001 8th AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND CHOREOGRAPHIC COURSE
-2001/2002 BRISBANE POWERHOUSE LIVE ARTS INCUBATOR PROGRAMME - Transmute Collective
AWARDS:
-2013 GREEN ROOM AWARDS NOMINATIONS - 'Cabaret Artiste' & 'Innovation' for Rramp: the Collector, the Archivist & the Electrocrat
-2009 QLD MATILDA AWARD NOMINATION - The Pineapple Queen by Lisa O'Neill & Norman Price
-2000 QLD MATILDA AWARD COMMENDATION - for Performances in ‘Rashomon’by Frank Theatre and ‘Sweet Yeti’ by Lisa O'Neill
TEACHING:
-2007 to 2013 SOUTHBANK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Director/Course Coordinator & Teacher of the Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting) course - (0.9 & 0.6 appointments) subjects: Movements Studies & Production Theatre
-2001 to 2006 SOUTHBANK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Teacher (casual) subjects: Movement & Performance Projects
-2002 to 2013 QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Guest Teacher & Lecturer, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
-2006 QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Teacher (casual), Bachelor of Fine Arts (Performance Studies) subject: Movement Studies
-2002 QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Teacher (casual), Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) subject: Movement Studies
-2000 GOLDSMITH UNIVERSITY, London England - conducted physical actor training workshops
-2000 YELLOW EARTH THEATRE COMPANY, London England - conducted physical actor training workshops
-2000 QUEENSLAND CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC - Teacher (casual) - conducted physical training workshops
-2001/2004 YOUTH ARTS QUEENSLAND - Youth Arts Mentoring Program - Supervised performance projects
-1999/2000 BRISBANE SECONDARY SCHOOLS - conducted physical training workshops
-1996 to 1999 QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Employed as Outside Examiner, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
-1999/2000 QUEENSLAND DANCE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - Employed as part-time contemporary dance teacher
-1999 EXPRESSIONS DANCE COMPANY - Conducted Company Classes
-1996 HOUSE IS LIVE THEATRE GROUP - Conducted Movement Workshops
-1993/1994 DARC SWAN DANCE COMPANY - Devised and Conducted Movement Workshops for Primary and Secondary Students
