UMBER productions

Elaine Acworth // Writer and Co-Director
Acworth's plays have been produced locally (Queensland Theatre Company, Metro Arts); nationally (Sydney Theatre Company, La Mama, and Darwin Theatre Company), and internationally (Vieux Colombier, Paris, La Didascalie, Paris, Radio France, and the Hackney Empire Studio, London). She is the recipient of several awards, including the George Landon Dann Award (Composing Venus), and a Matilda Award (Solitary Animals); and has been short-listed for the ANPC/New Dramatists Award. Recently, she was unanimously elected to the prestigious French repertoire of L’Association Théâtrales. Her work has been published in Australia and France.

Fraser Corfield // Co-Director
Fraser Corfield has been the artistic director of Backbone Youth Arts in Brisbane since 2005. Over the past fifteen years he has worked as a director, actor, writer, workshop facilitator and artistic director. From July 1997 to December 2000 Fraser was the artistic associate of La Boite Theatre. From 2001 to 2003 he was artistic director of Riverland Youth Theatre in South Australia and in 2004 was appointed as the regional touring officer for the Arts Regional Touring Service with the Queensland Arts Council. Fraser has been a company associate of Queensland Theatre Company (2006-08), chair of the selection panel for the Youth Arts Mentoring Program (2006-08) and is a member of the selection panel for Queensland’s theatre industry awards, The Matildas.

Nicholas O’Donnell // Producer
O'Donnell has more than 12 years project management experience for local and federal government agencies, NGOs, theatre companies, musicians, bands, and arts, cultural and community festivals and organisations. He is currently the Creative Director of one of Australia's most popular and successful community and lifestyle websites.

Greg Clarke // Designer
Greg Clarke is one of Queensland’s most accomplished designers. He has worked extensively with many of Brisbane’s leading performing arts companies, including QTC, La Boite and Expressions Dance Company. He has also designed for the Brisbane Festival, Stage X, Playbox, Handspan and the Melbourne Workers Theatre. He currently teaches visual theatre at QUT.

Krista Berga // Sculptor/corpse creator
Berga works across sculpture, drawing, painting, text and installation. She has won or been short-listed for multiple prestigious national awards, including the Archibald Portrait Prize and the Kedumba National Drawing Award. She has undertaken numerous notable commissions, including Un for Burley Katon Halliday’s Republic Building in Darlinghurst, Sydney; Milky Way for Arc Biennial 07; and more recently her work has been installed and exhibited at Brisbane Powerhouse, the State Library of Queensland and QUT.

Christopher (Tolli) Tollefson // Lighting Design
Tolli is the Senior Lighting Technician at Queensland Performaing Arts Centre (QPAC). In addition to his responsibilities at QPAC he has designed lighting for a diverse range of productions in Sydney, Melbourne and North Queensland.

Kathryn Kelly // Dramaturg
Currently Executive Director of Playlab, Kelly has dramturged shows for LaBoite, Zen Zen Zo, QPAC, Out of the Box Festival, Osmosis (Brisbane), Playbox (Melbourne), Cahoots Theatre Projects and the Theatre Factory (Toronto), ANPC Playwright’s Conference, World Interplay and JUTE Enter Stage Write Program.

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS
Brisbane Powehouse
Kruger Enterprises
Ernst & Young
Phorm Interiors
Nelson Molloy