in development..
NO PINK DICKS
FORM:
Play | Limited Television
CREATOR | WRITER
A comedic anthology taking an incisive look at the space between the personal and the political within the interracial relationships of Black women and White men. From first-timers, serial offenders and should-just-go-to-therapy couples, the work offers no answers, respite or resolutions.
Development & production support from Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Australia Council, Australian Theatre for Young People, Sydney Theatre Company & Playwriting Australia
⭐️ Finalist | Bruntwood International Prize for Playwriting (2022)
⭐️ Finalist | Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting (2022)
⭐️ Finalist | Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award (2022)
Team:
Creators: Afro Sistahs Collective Writers: Moreblessing Maturure + Rebekah Robertson | Producers: Safi Amadou + Mumbi Hinga| Director: Hawanatu Bangura | Executive Producer: Rosie Lourde | Script Editor: Louise Gough
AFRO SISTAHS
FORM:
Digital Series | Feature Film
Co Creator | Writer | actor
A dramedy digital series that follows the lives of 4 Afro Australian women as they navigate everything from friendship, nosey Aunties, woke baes and their hair.
Development support from Screen Australia & Information and Cultural Exchange
PHOTO | TENIOLA KOMOLAFE
Team:
Producer: Naomi Velaphi | Sound Designer & Composer: Ben Pierpoint | Projection Artist: Nema Adel | Production Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam | Cast: Daniel Gabriel
MILK & HONEY & LEMONS
FORM:
Play | Immersive Audio installation
Creator | Director
An immersive 60min work performed in a domestic house in Melbourne’s western suburbs that follows a young Black boy grappling with what it means to come of age when society’s been taught to fear who he’s becoming.
Commissioned by Next Wave Festival and Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Additional funding and support from Sydney Theatre Company, Create NSW, Australia Council & Multicultural Vic
3 Covid cancellations + 1 flooding cancellation and counting…
PHOTO | BILL STEPHENSON: STREETS IN THE SKY
Writer/Directors: Madeleine Gottlieb, Hyun Lee, Laura Nagy, Imogen McCluskey, Renee Petropoulos, Shari Sebbens + Cloudy Rhodes
MASC.
FORM:
Anthology Feature
Writer | Director
It's a man's world. Eight women tell stories about men. A searing, multi-disciplinary examination of what it means to be a man today, through women's eyes.
Development support from Screen Australia
team
Creators: Madeleine Gottlieb + Laura Nagy | Producers: Yingna Lu, Rachel Argall + Georgia Gilbert | Executive Producers: Martha Coleman (Revlover), Rob Gibson (Easy Tiger)
Wingin’ it
FORM:
Feature
AMANI and KABIR touch down at the Gold Coast for a destination “White wedding” having just lost their plus ones. They now face the challenge of replacing their dates within 48 hours or risk provoking the ultimate Bridezilla. Stuck with each other, they hit the sweaty Surfers nightclubs as wingmates– with one rule: don’t fall for your wingman.
TEAM
Writer/Creators: Arka Das, Gemma Bird Matheson, Moreblessing Maturure + Mansoor Noor
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*Results may vary
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