Queensland Theatre Company 2008

In 2008 Queensland Theatre Company Associate Director Jon Halpin will be keeping you up-to-date with all the latest insider info about the Company, the Brisbane arts scene, what life is like for one of our favourite directors.
As a bit of background, Jon started with Queensland Theatre Company as Intern Director in January 2001, becoming Associate Director in late 2002.
In his role he directs a few plays a year for the Company’s mainstage season, assists in running our Emerging Artists, Regional and Writing programs plus reads all the scripts that get submitted to Company from local playwrights, providing feedback to them.
He also assists Michael Gow with script selection and suggestions for our annual season of plays.

A word from Jon Halpin

Monday, 30 June 2008

The Queensland Premier's Drama Award and the Mutha of Divas

Well it’s been some time since I last blogged, mainly because it’s been difficult finding the time to do so. I’ve been working on two main projects - the second round of workshops for the three finalists of the Queensland Premiers Drama Award, and a show I came on board to work on outside of The Queensland Theatre Company, Carita Farrer is the Mutha of Divas. I’m also heading off to Canberra for two weeks (how much am I going to freeze?) to workshop a couple of plays at the Playwriting Australia Workshop series.

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Travelling South

Over the last couple of week’s I’ve been on a nice trip down south, catching up in Geelong with a show I directed called Heroes - which is currently on tour - then saw a couple of plays in Melbourne and a couple in Sydney before heading off to Albury-Wodonga for a creative development with HotHouse Theatre.

Thursday, 01 May 2008

Workshopping for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award

Last week here at Queensland Theatre Company we finished off the first round of workshops for the 2008-09 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. For anyone reading this who doesn’t have a clue what this award is, it’s basically a play writing award that the Queensland Theatre Company runs where winning first prize means you get your play produced and included in our mainstage season the following year. Heaps of entries get whittled down to three finalists which each undergo workshops and rewrites until we present them all as rehearsed readings for the public and judging panel, and one gets chosen as the winner. That play then gets a few more workshops until it goes into rehearsal, where of course, more rewriting gets done. It’s pretty cool and can be full on – for the writers at least.

Be swept up by Cyclone Larry

In a production exploring the boundaries of cutting-edge theatre, Queensland Theatre Company captures the destruction and personal debris of Cyclone Larry in The August Moon.

14 Jul – 9 Aug