Creative Scholarship
In 2015 Intersticia began supporting writers and artists through a Writers in Residence programme with Australia’s Bell Shakespeare Company. Since that time we have expanded our partnerships to include Musica Viva Australia and 5 Eliza Street Newtown and continue to look for ways to support creative people around the world.
Creative Scholarship Fellows/ 2015 - 2020
Bell Shakespeare
The work of Shakespeare never ceases to amaze and inspire and it strikes at the heart of what it is to be human – vulnerable, dangerous, and yet so capable of creating beauty.
In 2015 Intersticia began supporting writers and artists through a Writers in Residence programme with Australia’s Bell Shakespeare Company. Since that time we have expanded our partnerships to include Musica Viva Australia and 5 Eliza Street Newtown and continue to look for ways to support creative people around the world.
Writers in Residence Programme 2015 - 2017
In 2015 Intersticia worked with Bell Shakespeare to support the Writers Fellowship. This project provided a mid-career Writing Fellow with two days a week of employment with the Company for up to two years, giving them the time to focus wholly on their writing and benefit from desk-space and the practical resources offered within a major performing arts organisation. It also created a mentoring environment as successive Fellows come on board over time.
In other words, it gives them the space to imagine.
Our first two Bell Shakespeare Writers were Kate Mulvany (2015 – 2016) and Jada Alberts (2016 – 2017) a young writer who won the Balnaves Indigenous Playwright Award at Belvoir. Jada is also an accomplished musician and painter of contemporary indigenous art.
Our third Bell Shakespeare Writing Fellow was Kylie Farmer (Bracknell) (2017 – 2019), an exciting Indigenous actress and writer, originally from Perth now based in Sydney. In 2012 Kylie was part of a group from Yirra Yaakin Theatre in WA who translated Shakespeare’s sonnets into Noongar language and performed them at the Globe in London, as well as having played the role of Juliet in Romeo And Juliet. She worked with Yirra Yaakin on a new production of Macbeth.
Education outreach programme 2017
In 2017 Intersticia deepened its partnership with Bell Shakespeare through supporting work to create a range of teaching and educational resources for students and teachers around Australia delivered in to remote area schools, Juvenile Justice and Prisons, indigenous communities, and places of disadvantage. Through this we supported Intersticia Fellow (2017) Teresa Jakovich and actor and director Huw McKinnon.
Assistant Directors programme 2018
In 2018 Intersticia supported two young directors to work on plays with Bell Shakespeare.
Penny Harpham (2018) is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of She Said Theatre. She has worked across Australia, South Korea, Germany and the UK as a director and performer. She studied at the University of Queensland (Journalism/ Drama), University of Melbourne (Post Grad in Arts and Cultural Management) and most recently she graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (Post Grad in Performance Creation – Directing) where she was awarded the Barbara Manning Scholarship for Excellence and the Global Atelier Scholarship for Overseas Travel. She co-directed Antony and Cleopatra with Peter Evans.
Nasim Khosravi (2018) is an Iranian artist based in Brisbane, who makes feminist work engaging with classic texts. She has founded her own company, Baran, in Brisbane, and has just finished an observership with Queensland Theatre on The 39 Steps. In 2008, her piece “No Swinging Allowed” was banned in Tehran after its first performance. Assistant Director for Julius Caesar.
The Voice programme
In 2019 Intersticia began working with our Creative Fellow Jess Chambers in supporting her as the Voice Coach with Bell Shakespeare. Since then Jess has worked with a range of theatre projects in Australia and works with Intersticia and our community.
