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Artwork for Creative Speed Dating (Strictly Professional)
Artwork for Creative Speed Dating (Strictly Professional)
Creative Speed Dating (Strictly Professional)

Saturday 8 August, 4.30PM

Southbank Theatre, The Lounge

A networking event to make new professional connections and meet likeminded theatre creatives.

Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes

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Are you a writer looking for a director? A producer looking for a stage manager? A lighting artist in search of a sound collaborator? A curator looking for devisors? A playwright in search of a dramaturg?

Whatever your role, and however you make theatre, Creative Speed Dating is the place to make new professional connections. Hosted by Mark Wilson (Melbourne Theatre Company Associate Artist), the event will be a relaxed, fun and easy way to meet likeminded theatre creatives.

Featuring a mix of structured activities and unstructured time to chat and swap details, Creative Speed Dating is ideal for anyone who's on the lookout for new collaborators, curious about others' practice, or looking to build a new theatre team.

Who knows, it might be the beginning of a beautiful creative partnership!

PLEASE NOTE: This is event is about theatre-makers finding other theatre-makers with a view to making theatre together. The reference to "speed dating" is about the format, not the intention of meeting people to date.

 

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  • Wheelchair Accessible

MEET THE HOST

Artwork for Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson
Artwork for Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson is Associate Artist at Melbourne Theatre Company. He has an established practice as a director, dramaturg, devisor, performer and writer. Recent directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Jacky (Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir) and Bighouse Dreaming (Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brisbane Festival, Darwin Festival); Code of Conduct (Midsumma Festival); World Problems (Theatre Oostblok, Amsterdam) and Sweet Phoebe (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre). He has a long-term collaboration with Brian Lipson, Alice Will Caroline and Triage Live Art Collective, and as dramaturg on Emily Godard’s This is Eden. Before COVID, he also created and performed three radical Shakespeare adaptations: Unsex Me, Richard II and Anti-Hamlet, which were seen across the country. He trained at Monash University, Victorian College of the Arts and Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He teaches and directs regularly at VCA. His shows have won awards at Melbourne Fringe and at Melbourne's Green Room Awards.

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Southbank Theatre, The Lounge

140 Southbank Boulevard

Southbank, Victoria 3006