The Phoenix Team
Creative Director - Steen
While studying in Europe, Steen attended many performances and workshops where he noticed the attitude to performance was totally different from the one in Australia. This was strange because the attitudes of Multiculturalism, resourcefulness and partnership are ideals held dear to most Australians and even considered by us as the Australian way of living. So why do we not see these ideals carried over into our performance culture?
Australians are the creative backbone of many performance groups overseas, we do it better than anyone else because of the way we live and the way we think. Our theatre workers are leaving home to find what they need to express themselves. Again why? Where is the source of the problem? When productions that have a more global perspective have happened they have been very successful, for example, the Lion King or Cirque du Soleil. Steen believes the biggest problem is support, and The Phoenix Theatre is going to try to address the lack of support for performers who want to take a more global approach to performance.
The Phoenix Board
Nick Kilpatrick, Business Manager
Nathan Corris, Public Officer
Trevor Slattery, Secretary
Elysia Viles, Treasurer
Janys Hayes
Kevin Caucher
Will Worthington