Convenors

Associate Professor Angela O'Brien

Associate Professor, Theatre Studies,
Creative Arts Program, School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne 3010
Phone: +61 3 8344 8216
Fax: +61 3 9344 8462
Room: A202
email: aob@unimelb.edu.au

Associate Professor Angela O'Brien is Discipline Chair of Creative Arts in the School of Culture and Communication and Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies at the University of Melbourne. Professor O'Brien is Chair of the Theatre Board at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the social impact of the arts and Australian theatre. She has published widely on both of these areas, particularly on the New Theatre movement in Australia. She has developed an online database of student theatre at the University of Melbourne: http://www.must.unimelb.edu.au/

Dr Kate Donelan

Senior Lecturer and Head of Drama,
Department of Language, Literacy and Arts Education
University of Melbourne 3010
Phone: +61 3 8344 8354
Fax: +61 3 9349 4290
Room: 404
email: kdonelan@unimelb.edu.au

Dr Kate Donelan is Head of Drama and Deputy Head of the Department of Language, Literacy and Arts Education at the University of Melbourne. She was the Vice President of IDEA and a former President of NADIE, Drama Australia.  Her doctoral research was an ethnographic study of intercultural education through drama and the performing arts. 
Her current research focuses on the arts in schools and community education. She teaches qulitative research methods to post-graduate arts educators. Kate Donelan has held leadership positions in arts education organisations and played an active role in policy development in Australia and internationally for the past 15 years. She is currently an executive member of Drama Australia and Drama Victoria. She co-edited Drama, Culture and Empowerment (O'Toole and Donelan, 1996), a highly acclaimed book with contributions from thirty of the world's foremost drama and theatre educators.

Paul Monaghan

Lecturer, Theatre Studies,
Creative Arts Program, School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne 3010
Ph: +61 3 8344 8289
Fax: +61 3 8344 8462
email: pmonag@unimelb.edu.au

Paul Monaghan lectures in the Creative Arts Program (Theatre Studies), School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His specialist research area is Greek and Roman Theatre in performance and he has directed a number of Greek and Roman plays over the years. Paul is co-convenor/co-editor of Double Dialogues conference and journal (http://www.doubledialogues.com), an ongoing project linking academic discourse with arts practice, and co-convenor of the Dramaturgies Project, which examines dramaturgical practices in contemporary Australian theatre. Paul was also co-convenor of Close Relations: the Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre, an international conference in Melbourne in September 2006 (http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close). Before joining Creative Arts, Paul worked in the professional theatre industry for 16 years, in a variety of roles including actor, director, lighting designer, production and stage manager, general manager and artistic director. From 1994 to late 1998 Paul was General Manager / Artistic Director of Theatreworks, a theatre company and venue in Melbourne. He has directed performances in four different languages (English, French, Indonesia & Latin), and toured to a number of countries including Japan, Bulgaria, Indonesia and Austria. He also continues to work as dramaturge for numerous emerging artists.

Susie Dee

Artistic Director, Union House Theatre
Melbourne University Student Union Ltd
Union House, University of Melbourne 3010
phone: +61 3 8344 6961
fax: +61 3 9347 7891
email: S.Dee@union.unimelb.edu.au

Susie Dee is currently the Artistic Director of the Melbourne University Student Union Theatre Department. She is also the Artistic Director of the Institute of Complex Entertainment (ICE), a company that produces large-scale site-specific work. She has been involved in creating and devising work for over 20 years and has worked extensively with ensembles as a director, co-devisor, actor, circus, cabaret and outdoor theatre performer. In 1999, ICE won the Green Room Award for most Innovative work for Tower of Light and in 2002, she received a number of nominations for ICE's production The Teratology Project. In 1995, she won the Ewa Czajor Memorial Award and in 1984 she received an Excellence in Cabaret award from the Adelaide Fringe. 

For more information or to contact all convenors please email: nw-symposium@unimelb.edu.au

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