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

Saturday 19 OCTOBER, 4.30PM

Southbank Theatre, The Lounge

A networking event to find your people and get to know your theatre community.

Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes

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This is a free event, but bookings are required.

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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 (Fringe regular and 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.

 

 

 

 

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

MEET THE HOST

Artwork for Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson
Artwork for Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson works as a director, devisor, dramaturg, performer and writer. Directing credits include Declan Furber Gillick's Jacky (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Bighouse Dreaming (Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brisbane Festival, Darwin Festival),  Rory Godbold’s Code of Conduct (Midsumma Festival); Emma Hall’s World Problems (Theatre Oostblok, Amsterdam) and Michael Gow’s Sweet Phoebe (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre). As a maker and performer he has collaborated with Brian Lipson on The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus (Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne); Alice Will Caroline on Doors Shut (Melbourne Fringe/Temperance Hall); Triage Live Art Collective; and as dramaturg on Emily Godard’s This is Eden directed by Susie Dee. Before the pandemic, he created and performed three radical Shakespeare adaptations: Unsex Me, Richard II and Anti-Hamlet. 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 regularly at VCA. His shows have won awards at Melbourne Fringe and in the Independent Theatre and Dance categories at the Greenroom Awards.

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The Lounge

140 Southbank Boulevard

Southbank, Victoria 3006