Friends

People Involved

Little Ones Theatre is a collaborative effort depending on but not limited to some of the following people.

Friends / Links

Theatre Alive
Theatreworks
45 Downstairs
Stuck Pigs Squealing
Sisters Grimm
Pipedream
Sit Up Front Theatre
The Act-O Matic 3000
Theatre Notes - Allison Croggon
Theatreargh - Chris Summers
Stagework
Patrick Campbell
Little Ones Facebook Group

Ricci-Jane Adams

Ricci-Jane Adams has won the St Martins Youth Theatre Company Playwrighting Competition and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Young Writer in Residence award, as well as an award from the Monash National Playwrights competition for A Slow and Steady Darkening Towards Light. Her play, The Not Yet Beautiful Girl received an award from the Australian Theatre for Young People, and an Australia Council Grant for production in 2005 by Aubergine Theatre. Ricci-Jane was invited to attend the 2003 World Interplay Youth Playwrighting Festival as well as the Aotearoa National Playwrights Conference in 2004.

Emma Kingsbury

Emma is currently completing a bachelor of Creative Arts. In 2007 Emma undertook the Union House Theatre mentorship in costume design for Max Frisch’s The Fire Raisers. Following this Emma joined Pipedream as their costume and make-up designer. For Pipedream she has designed King Turd: The Great for which she won the MudFest ’08 ‘Off Beat’ award for her design, and Steven Berkoff’s Harry’s Christmas. In the last year she has also designed for original works from independent theatre companies White Whale Theatre Convict 002, Sparklemotion Cabaret L’Australie, The Little Ones Theatre Collective Brightside.She is currently set and costume designing with Anna Cordingly for Tiny Dynamite Theatre, a Theatreworks company initiative production, The Lonesome West, and is part of a 2008 collaboration with Gert Reifarth and IOpera, Melbourne’s innovative new opera company. During 2008 Emma is also undertaking a secondment with Malthouse Resident Designer, Anna Tregloan.

Stephen Nicolazzo

Stephen is a theatre director, having produced and directed Patrick Marber’s Closer at The Store Room in 2005, world premiere productions of Playground & Brightside and Jonathan Larson’s Tick…Tick Boom at Theatreworks in 2007. He is also the founder of Little Ones Theatre. Stephen also directed Top 30 play, Perfect by Aaron Scully for the Arts Centre’s “Short & Sweet” at the Fairfax Studio. In 2008, Stephen will be working with Chris Kohn and Lally Katz on Say Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd for Malthouse Theatre and is the assistant director of Chambermade Opera’s The Children’s Bach by Glenn Perry and Andrew Schultz after the novel by Helen Garner.

Kathryn Kelly

Kathryn is currently the Executive Director of Playlab. Trained as a dramaturg at the University of Queensland, BA (Hons), her credits include shows with LaBoite, Zen Zen Zo, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, the Out of the Box Festival and Osmosis in Brisbane; Cahoots Theatre Projects and the Factory Theatre in Toronto and Playbox in Melbourne. She has also dramaturged with the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the World Interplay Festival and the JUTE Enter Stage Write Program. Her arts administration work includes consultancies with the Public Art Agency in 2002 and Arts Queensland in 1999, reviewing the Regional Arts Development Fund. She has published in Ignite, Australasian Drama Studies, Playwrights Union of Canada Journal and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs' Association of the America's Journal. She is also an Artistic Associate of the Queensland Theatre Company, Performing Lines and Critical Stages.