Elizabeth had a passion for theatre and performing from her youth and was a keen contributor to the joint school musicals- mostly the Gilbert and Sullivan romps. Once she headed to university this passion dominated with a 4 year stint at UNE in Armidale encompassing both performance and directing as major components of her Double Major in Drama and Major in English Literature.
The year after graduation she found herself not only at the newly formed Actors’ Centre but also teaching high school drama. She is still there, teaching, directing, writing for high school Drama and on the side across the years has performed in small season productions at Q theatre and directed several productions for the Short & Sweet program being a part of the inaugural group.
Keenly she has represented other drama educators as committee member then President of Drama NSW also representing NSW on the National Committee at Drama Australia National Conferences. She completed her MA a century ago also with a focus on Drama & Theatre at UNSW. She is now a mum of two and recently directed her sixth Musical – perhaps now coming full circle in the scheme of things. She was contributing and consulting editor on a major Drama text for Cambridge Uni Press “Drama ReLoaded”.
More than anything she loves theatre and is very keen to share her experiences with this forum. Each year she directs secondary students in plays from Australia and across the globe, in productions large and small.
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This is a special celebratory re-launched production post-covid and built into the World Pride celebrations and as such it is a very short season. Marked also by Shaun himself announcing the new philanthropic partnerships, every dollar donated will …
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Hazem Shammas’ Macbeth reaches out to the audience like some homeless figure on the street, begging and speaking to us and to himself, repeating aloud the words addressed to the ghosts in his head. Macbeth is a tragic …
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Here we are inside the ATYP Rebel Theatre and we are told to turn our phones to airplane mode. We enter the theatre that is somehow a warehouse of action – ready to manufacture the emboldened rally cries …
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Here we are in a show within a show with meta narrative abounding. Our “Liz Kingsman” is the character and the driver. It is her show and she plans to film it to show others who couldn’t come …
“Thousands of teenagers perform an HSC monologue every year, written by an older writer reminiscing on what being a teenager felt like. The Monologue Collective puts teenagers at the forefront of telling their own stories.”
~ Laneikka Denne, creator of …
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Noel Hodda’s brand new play premiering in Sydney at the Flight Path Theatre takes us intimately into the lives of ten interwoven stories.
IN THIS LIGHT shines through two continents, ten lives and twenty years as secrets are …
A room, a very contemporary room. A meeting room. Where minds and even hearts may meet to tell a story. But who’s story is it? The team of young enthusiastic writers are collected to write the bible for an up …
Katie Pollock ever so gently takes us through her complex and slow reveal within her ‘part stand-up, part takedown of capitalism, part wannabe dancing dildo musical’ one-woman play.
A soft mist and gentle soundscape waft us into her insecure world …
Headliners couldn’t get more switched on than our host, then in glittering sparkle red tails Andrew Denton tumbled in. Seemed we were in for it. Presented as the night the stars come out to play, and proudly sponsoring and fundraising …
This is one of my favourite of all Shakespeare’s comedies. Mistaken identity, lost love and longing for love, search for purpose and a search for identity, hope and redemption all at once.
As a touring production what set there is, …