Postgraduate Diploma in Production

Production Management
Aleks Radovic - Producer of The Tragedy of Hamlet - Prince of Denmark - Malthouse Theatre March

Design
Naomi Wong - Assistant to Designer - Floats Moomba Festival
Set Design - Romeo and Juliet - Eagle's Nest Theatre Company
Set and Costume Design - Three Dog Night - Forty Five Downstairs

Christina Logan Bell - Costume Design - Disjointed Story - Chapel off Chapel - March
Set and Costume Design - The Betty Booke, War Rooms - August
Wardrobe - Dressing for Opera Australia autumn season
Design and Conceptual work - The Bucket Women by Suze Smith - workshopping a short play - April

Dayna Morrisey - Set Design - Dimboola - La Mama
Set and costume for Death in White Linen @ La Mama, opens 23rd April.
Solo performance written and performed by Michael Dally, Directed by Anne Microssin-Owen  
Set design for West Side Story @ Melbourne High School, opens May 14
Set and Costume for Wanderlands @ Randall Theatre St Martins Youth Arts Centre, May 14 - May 24
Set and Costume for grant application Clickety Tock @ Fitzroy Town Hall, opens 28th May.
Performance instillation directed by Alex Desbrock.

Emily Collett - Set Design - INKY By Rinne Groff - Theatreworks

Sound
Ben Watts - Technical Manager Spotlight Theatre Edinburgh

Rafi Dean - Production Coordinator,- Republic Polytechnic Singapore
Rina Morinaga - Composer Don't Stop It (2007)
Sound Designer - Konjaku monogatari: The new edition (2007)

Puppetry
Conor Fox, Tamara Rewse, Leonie Van Eyck -  Puppeteers - Coop - 45 Downstairs

Jacob Boehme - Puppeteer - Birrarung project (" Birrarung Stories " - stories from the indigenous people of Birrarung Marr. )
3 minute piece  commissioned by Next Wave
ASSITEJ Interational Festival in Adelaide May (ASSITEJ is the International Association of Theatre for Young People)

Penelope Bartlau - Puppeteer - Dispatch will be  presented as part of the ASSITEJ Festival (Adelaide) in May 2008
http://barkingspidertheatre.com.au/

Lighting
Lisa Mibus - Lighting Design
Three Dog Night - Forty Five Downstairs
Big Sky Town – St Martins Youth Theatre
Szentpaly –  St Martins Youth Theatre
Ill Re Pastore – Lyric Opera
Oasis Oasis – Forty Five Downstairs
A Sympathetic Ear – Way Out West

Bachelor of Production

Matthew Kneale  - Producing and Artistic Director - Next Wave Festival- KIDS CAN GET LOST

Esther Hayes - Costume Design - Next Wave Festival- KIDS CAN GET LOST

Evan Granger - Set Design - Platonov - the Hayloft Project
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Monique Aucher - Technical Theatre Lecturer/Technician - VCA Production

Angie Grant - Sound Assistant - ABC Radio
Sound Design - Wanderlands @ Randall Theatre St Martins Youth Arts Centre, May 14 - May 24

Adam Gardnir - Designer - The Tragedy of Hamlet - Prince of Denmark

Rob Stewart - Sound Designer - X:machine and Hamlet - Malthouse Theatre (& Arlo Mountford)
Soud Design - Next Wave Festival- KIDS CAN GET LOST

Emma Mildern - Venue Coordinator -Footscray Community Arts Centre

Darren Kowacki - Stage Management - Venus and Adonis - Malthouse Theatre

Jemila MacEwan - Puppet sculptor/maker - Garry Ginnivan Productions - Possum Magic

Lauren Redpath - Puppet sculptor/maker - Garry Ginnivan Productions - Possum Magic

Belinda Green - Production Manager - Polyglot Puppet Theatre

Whitney McNamara - Stage Manager - Disjointed Story - Chapel off Chapel - March
Assistant Stage Manager - 39 Steps - Melbourne Theatre Company

Eva Tandy - Assistant Stage Manager - 39 Steps - Melbourne Theatre Company

Wesley Portelli - Manager - 39 Steps - Melbourne Theatre Company

Jess Keepence - Props Assistant - Priscilla the Musical

Doyle Barrow- Costume Design - INKY By Rinne Groff - Theatreworks

BACHELOR OF PRODUCTION

Danny Pettingill - Lighting Design, Adam Gardnir - Design
Mercury Fur @ Theatreworks, Jes Keepence - Stage Manager

Jes Keepence - Production Manager - Living things Puppetry Show - VCA

Eva Tandy - Stage Manager Don's Party, Sydney Theatre Company

Dioni Butt - Children's Coordinator, Billy Elliott  Musical

Lucy Kennedy - Deputy Stage Manager - Walking with Dinosaurs, USA Tour

Philip Costello  -Stage Manager - 6 Dance Lessons in 6 weeks (WA)

Victoria Woolley - Assistant Stage Manager - The Australian Ballet

Fiona Boundy - Stage Manager - The Australian Ballet

Jemila McEwan - Prop maker - The Nutcacker - The Australian Ballet

Lucie Sprage - Prop maker - The Nutcacker - The Australian Ballet

John Hicks - Production Coordinator Palms Crown Casino

Robert Surace - Dresser/Wardrobe The Lion King UK

Edwina Guinness - Asstistant Stage Manager Orpheus and Eurydice, Victoria Opera

David Samuel - Design Assistant My Fair Lady, Opera Australia

Caitlin Kerry - Costume Designer Anything Goes, University of Ballarat

Sally Hitchcock - Assistant Stage Manager Miss Saigon tour to July 2008

PUPPETRY

Lyall Morris Puppet maker for the Australian Ballet's production of The Nutcracker Suite. Also puppet maker and performer for Lyric Opera's production of Cinderella at Chapel off Chapel. 

Sam Routledge Puppeteer-Operation at Arts Centre as part of Full Tilt program.

Hamish Fletcher  Assistant puppet director to Peter Wilson on the Citrawarna - Colours of Malaysia Festival.

Gretta Newall  Puppeteer Dreamer for Dream Puppets.

Lachlan Plain   Puppeteer "AboutFace Production's' The Legend of Ned Kelly - originally produced by Terrapin Theatre - which  toured to Adelaide Festival Centre and Victorian Arts Centre.
Designed the puppets for, and worked with the puppeteers on, the VCA's 3rd year drama school production, The Perjured City.

Shan Jayaweera Puppeter with his John Howard Puppet in The Comedy Festival - Once Upon a Coffee Cup.

Sam Routledge, Hamish Fletcher and Tamara Rewse
Puppeteers Men of Steel Edinburgh Festival
Nominated for a Green Room Award for Most Outstanding Ensemble of Performers
Men of Steel-Adelaide-Fringe Festival,Sydney-Big Laugh Comedy Festival,Melbourne Comedy Festival
On Holiday - Melbourne International Comedy Festival

SOUND DESIGN

Rafi Dean - 2006 Graduate of Postgraduate Diploma in Production (Sound Design)
Currently working as Technical Production Coordinator at The Republic Cultural Centre (Republic Polytechnic) in Singapore

Click here for newspaper article about Rafi published in Singapore

2006
Tamara Rewse won the Handspan Puppetry scholarship and is travelling in Europe, visiting puppetry schools and companies.

Sam Routledge has been performing with Terrapin Theatre, in The Legend of Ned Ned Kelly.

Lachlan Plain has just completed a season of his original puppetry work, Lament, at the Abbotsford Convent.

Gretta Newall is working with puppetry and young people through Artplay.

Andrew McDougall is about to begin rehearsals for Walking with Dinosaurs - large scale stadium show that opens in Sydney on Jan 10

Jenna Hann is working as a props maker on a project called Dream Masons, directed by Jessica Wislon and opening  for Salamanca Theatre Co. Hobart in 2007

Julie Renton - costume/set designer for 11th Hour Theatre Company for EndGame. Nick Pajanti - Lighting Designer, Emily O'Brien -Production Manager and Lindy Macauley - design assistant.

Yasuhiro Morinaga (Japanese Sound Design graduate) is going to Korea to attend the Pusan International Film Festival as a member of Asian Film Academy. This academy is a three week program to produce  a short film with members from  selected students in Asia.

Doyle Barrow is working on inflatable costumes for Walking with Dinosaurs.

Andrew Bell Chambers is a working as a designer at the Melbourne Theatre Company and recently designed their 2007 Subscription Launch

Tristan Bourke - Tech operator on Chunky Move tour

Daniel Holden is currently working as Production Manager on the VCA Philippe Genty project Landscapes Within

Dioni Butt - working as Casting Director for Billy Elliot the Musical

Wesley Portelli - Deputy Stage Manager at the Opening and Closing Ceremony Doha 2006 Asia Games with David Atkins Enterprises

Jared Lewis - Venue Technician for International Puppet Carnival
Sound Design and operation for International Puppetry Festival
Composer La Mama - The Jacaranda Tree (Nina Carol)

Julie Renton - nominated Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Costume Design for Canadian Pacific Scandal

Men of Steel (Melbourne Comedy Festival), performed by Sam Routledge, Tamara Rewse and Hamish Fletcher (graduates of the 2004 puppetry course) was awarded the Director's Award in the Comedy Festival Awards and also earned a Highly Commended by The Age Critics. Also performed at International Puppetry festival June 2006

Dioni Butt - Deputy Company Manager Dusty (the musical)

Michaela Deacon - Production Manager/Project Assistant International Youth Masterclass in percussion

Adam Gardnir - Set/Costume Design A View of Concrete – Malthouse Theatre
Design for film by writer Lally Katz: Ingrid Sits Holding a Knife ACMI

Leonie Goodwin - Project Manager Dusty (the musical)

Sally Hitchcock - Assistant Stage Manager It Just Stopped - Malthouse Theatre

Daniel  Holden - Production Manager - Whittlesea Arts Festival

Lucy Kennedy - Assistant Stage Manager - Dusty (the musical)

Matthew  Kneale - Set/Costume Design - Twenty Years of the Pants- Adelaide Festival

Emma  Mildern - Assistant Production Manager - Melbourne Comedy Festival

Martina Murray - Assistant Stage Manager - Ray’s Tempest - MTC

Darren  Kowacki - Technical Manager - Lano and Woodley Tour

Sam  Routledge - Co-Director and Puppeteer Operation - Next Wave Festival The Croft Institute

Govin Ruben - Lighting Designer Twenty Years of the Pants-Adelaide Festival

Andrew McDougall - Puppet Maker Operation - Next Wave Festival The Croft Institute

Ali  McNicol - Spatial Design Operation - Next Wave Festival The Croft Institute

Zoe Stuart - Design Operation - Next Wave Festival The Croft Institute

Eva Tandy - Stage Manager Operation - Next Wave Festival The Croft Institute

Alice Williams - Stage Manager Circus Tent – Cultural Festival Commonwealth Games

2005
Mark Lowry - Assistant Stage Manager - The Australian Ballet

Martina Murray - Assistant Stage Manager - Malthouse Ham Funeral

John Hicks - Assistant Stage Manager - Grease

Alexis George - Costume Designer - MIFA 2005 Bergasse 19

Natalie Boyle - Costume Supervisor - Dirty Dancing

Adam Gardnir - Designer - Ozopera The Beggar's Opera

Anna Tregloan - Designer - Malthouse The Ham Funeral and Journal of the Plague Year

Adam Gardnir - Designer-Storeroom The Yellow Paper

Jane Millett - Director - Ozopera The Beggar's Opera

Robert Surace - Dressing - Mamma Mia

Gareth Blaha - Head of Wardrobe - ABC Television Melbourne

Alicia Hevey - Lighting Designer - Ten Days on the Island

Leonie Goodwin - Production Manager - La Mama Billie

Naretha Williams - Production Manager - VCA - Wilin Week

Olivia Meehan - Project Manager - ACCA

Andrew Bailey - Set Designer - VCA School of Drama Three Sisters

Soncha Iacono - Sound Designer - La Mama Billie

Phillip Peck - Stage Manager - Circus Oz

Julie Wright - Stage Manager - VCA School of Drama The Maids

Lydia Teychenne - Stage Manager - Sydney Theatre Company
Old Times

Kelly Harrington - Stage Manager - Ten Days on the Island

Darren Kowacki - Technical Manager - St Martin's Theatre

Andrew Bailey - Design Assistant Opening/Closing Ceremony

Felicity  Barnett - Senior Segment Stage Manager Opening/Closing Ceremony

Nina  Bjorklund - Deputy Stage Manager Opening/Closing Ceremony

Anna  Cordingley - Design Assistant Opening/Closing Ceremony

Hamish Fletcher - Props builder Opening/Closing Ceremony

Adam Gardnir - CAD Design Draughtsman Opening/Closing Ceremony

Chloe Gestier - Secondment/volunteer Opening/Closing Ceremony

Greg Gowans - Production Manager Automation - Closing Ceremony

Meredith Grey - Production Assistant  - Cultural Festival

Alicia Hevey - MCG Senior Site Manager - Opening/Closing Ceremony 

Carly  Heard - Stage Manager Opening Ceremony

Diana Hume - Production Assistant Cultural Festival ;Deputy Stage Manager Opening Ceremony

Briony Leivers - Small Craft Coordinator Opening/Closing Ceremony 

Carolyn  Patamisi - Operations Director - Opening/Closing Ceremony

Wesley Portelli - Deputy Stage Manager Opening/Closing Ceremony

Alex Radovic - Secondment/volunteer Opening/Closing Ceremony

Jason  Read -Technical Coordinator Opening/Closing Ceremony

Sam Simpson - Production Assistant -Cultural Festival        

Eva Tandy - Production Management Cultural Festival

Maureen Thomas - Props Co-ordinator Opening/Closing Ceremony

Amy Wee - Assistant to Technical Director Opening/Closing Ceremony

Matthew Kneale
Bachelor of Production Graduate 2005

Matthew has helped establish a collaborative network called 'Collabo'.
The website is a forum where designers can discuss issues they are having or ask for advice. It cuts across multiple design disciplines such as architecture and graphic design.
Matthew's  folio is on this site: http://www.collabo.net/matthew/

Jacquie Lee
Graduate Diploma in Production ( Theatre Design) 2004

For the past ten years Jacqui has worked as a Melbourne based freelance artist and designer including 4 1/2 years as a professional scenic artist with Melbourne Theatre Company.

In 2004, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Production (Theatre Design) at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Click here to go to Jacquie's site

Adam Gardnir
Bachelor of Production 2003

Adam is a 2003 graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Adam's designs for the stage in 2006 include A View of Concrete and The Autobiography of Red for Malthouse Theatre in the Tower Theatre, Virgins for Echeleon Productions also in the Tower Theatre, Volcano for Stuck Pigs Squealing, Jet of Blood for TheatreWorks, The Judgment of Paris for Melbourne Conservatorium and the re-staging of The Yellow Wallpaper for Malthouse Theatre. In 2006 Adam will also design the feature length film of Hamlet and the short film currently titled Ingrid Sits Holding a Knife by Lally Katz. Last year Adam designed The Eisteddfod at Ontological and PS122 in New York, The Beggar's Opera for OzOpera, Drink Pepsi, Bitch! for Malthouse Theatre and The Sydney Opera House, the Breath of Life National Tour for Hit Productions, The Yellow Wallpaper for the Storeroom (Green Room Nomination - Best Design), The Belle, The Book, The Beast for The Bettybooke and Jet of Blood for Theatreworks. In 2004 Adam designed Beckett's Act Without Words II for the VCA, Nile Blue for Midsumma, the short film Phase for Gung Ho Films and the premier season of The Eisteddfod for Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre Co. (Green Room Nomination - Best Design). 2004 also saw Adam conduct a three month tour of European Arts Festivals as winner of the VCA Dr. Ron Rosenove Travelling Scholarship. Whilst at the VCA Adam designed The Little Sweep for OzOpera, Summerfolk, The Greeks and Pains of Youth for the School of Drama, Shocked and The Hollow Men for the School of Film and Lying for the School of Dance. In 2005 Adam was awarded a Besen Family Scholarship to attend Malthouse Theatre as an observing designer on the Melbourne Festival production of The Oddessy.

Click here to go to Adam's site