SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR YELLAMUNDIE QUEER BLAK WRITING INTENSIVE
Off the back of the success of the 2019 drag creative development workshops, in 2020 Moogahlin will offer five emerging LGBQTI+ blak artists a one week writing intensive with internationally renowned queer playwright Victor Rodger and Moogahlin Co-Artistic Director Liza-Mare Syron. The focus of the writing workshops will be for performance, exploring the 2020 SGLMG theme WHAT MATTERS.
Participants will be paid a stipend for their time and the works developed will be presented as public readings at Seymour Centre. Expressions of Interest must be accompanied by a short example of writing.
Workshops: 10am – 3pm, Monday 17 – Saturday 22 February at Carriageworks
Public readings: 3pm, Saturday 22 February at Seymour Centre
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST DUE FRIDAY 10 JANUARY 2020
Above L-R: Graham Simms, Colin Kinchela, and Jayla Shae Davey, Koori Gras 2019. Image: Jamie James.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Victor Rodger is a Journalist, actor and award-winning playwright of Samoan and Pākehā heritage. He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari New Zealand’s National Drama School and best is known for his play about Queer subcultures and religious intolerance in Black Faggot, and Cunning Stunts. Rodger’s has received the Most Outstanding New New Zealand Play award 2001, the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New Writer 1998, and he won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. He gained the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency in 2006 based at the University of Hawaii', and has studied film writing at the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam.
Liza-Mare Syron’s clan is Biripi. She is a director, dramaturge, producer, teacher and academic. Liza-Mare is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Moogahlin Performing Arts. Liza-Mare is the creative producer of Koori Gras - a blak event in partnership with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She has worked as a director on The Fox and the Freedom Fighters (2015), Winyanboga Yurringa (2016), Broken Glass (2018), The Weekend (2019), Rainbows End (2019) and as a reading director for the Yellamundie National Indigenous Playwriting Festival (2015-2017). She has worked as a dramaturge on Capricornia and Blood Wedding performed by second year acting students at NIDA. Liza-Mare was Head of Theatre at The Eora College for over ten years.