Panel Discussion: International Exchange

Facilitated by Jeremy Cohen
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Playwrights' Center
Cost: 
Free; no reservation necessary

A conversation about international exchange with two visiting theater artists from Australia, playwright Angus Cameron and Artistic Director of Playwriting Australia, Tim Roseman.

Angus Cameron is a Melbourne based theatre maker and academic. He received a Masters of Writing for Performance from the VCA, is an Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) Fresh Ink mentee, and is a Malthouse ‘provocateur’. He works as a writer, director, dramaturge, and when the opportunity arises, as an actor. He has performed, and/or had his work performed, around Melbourne and Australia. In addition, he has been a reviewer and written a number of critical essays on theatre. He has a particular interest in new Australian work, depictions of Australia, and the potential for theatre to engage with the public sphere – both in the forms of entertainment and education. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the University of Melbourne (09-12) where he was involved in student theatre, and worked with a number of different companies while on campus. Currently, he works at Trinity College as head of their well-being program and continues to research the intersection of performance and philosophy.

Tim Roseman is a director, dramaturg and producer. From 2007-2012 he was Joint Artistic Director of multi-award-winning new writing venue Theatre503 in London, where his productions included Life for BeginnersThe Girl in the Yellow DressBreed, Trolls, Peter and Vandy, This Much Is True, Natural Selection, The Final Shot and Decade. His other UK theatre directing credits include: Overspill (Soho Theatre, Churchill Theatre, Bromley), The Arab–Israeli Cookbook (Gate/Tricycle), Don Juan Comes Home from the War (National Theatre Studio), The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Salisbury Playhouse), Skittles are a Reason to Live (BAC), revival of Journey’s End (New Ambassadors, West End and national tour), A Number (Dailes Theatre, Latvia), You Might As Well Live (New End), To My Man (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford/Haugesund Teater, Norway), Lovers (New End), Così (New End), What Didn’t Happen (Old Vic), 90 Minutes (Southwark Playhouse), Blackrock (Young Vic), Recruitment (King’s Head), Our Town (Warwick Arts Centre), On Cigarette Papers (Old Vic/RADA), Kingdom on Earth (Landor), Nearly All Sondheim (Greenwich Playhouse). He has been invited on three occasions to direct the Old Vic’s Celebrity 24-Hour Plays. He has worked extensively in new writing and has developed plays with the Old Vic, Young Vic, Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Pleasance, Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh), Caird Company and RADA. He was Joint Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s New Directions season. Other productions include: The Winter’s Tale, Road, The Plough And The Stars, Good, Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, The Good Hope, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Love For Love, The Good Person Of Szechwan, The Women Of Troy.