News
January 2020

MIKE WALSH FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT  - December 2019
This month Shondelle was awarded the Mike Walsh Fellowship and will be travelling to the UK in January 2020 to work with Christopher Davies and the team at Bamboozle Theatre Company in Leicester. Their work explores the creation of immersive theatrical experiences for young neurodiverse and neuronormative audiences. You can read about her upcoming experiences in January. 
DIRECTING SHOWCASE: VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, MELBOURNE - October 2019
Shondelle's new children's show Wombats Wild Weekend will be debuting this month. It is an immersive, multi-sensory musical for neurodiverse children aged 2-5 years old and their carers. The show has been adapted from the play of the same name by Wayne Tunks and originally produced by Em's Entertainment. It will debut as part of a 6month residency into inclusive, accessible theatre practice with Aurora School for Deaf and Deaf Blind children in Blackburn South, Victoria. 
SEASON TWO TABLE READ BENT 101, FUNDING FROM SCREEN AUSTRALIA  - August 2019
Brilliant news as Shondelle and Jane Eakin sat down this week thanks to a grant from Screen Australia to do the table read for Bent 101 - Season 2!!! Lots of familiar faces and incredible actors to spend the day with.
DIRECTING INTERNSHIP: NEIL GOODING- August 2019
​Shondelle will be interning with director Neil Gooding on the children's musical The Red Tree (based on the Shaun Tan book) for the National Theatre of Parramatta in Melbourne.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR OF BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL- MELBOURNE SEASON - July 2019
​Shondelle will be the Resident Director for the Melbourne season of Bring It On, The Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt & Amanda Green for David Venn Enterprises in Melbourne.
ACCESSIBILITY CO-ORDINATOR: CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN - July 2019
​Shondelle will be working alongside director Claudia Barrie again as an Accessibility Co-Ordinator for The Cripple of Inishmaan at The Old Fitz.
DIRECTING INTERNSHIP WITH MICHAEL KANTOR - May 2019
​Shondelle will be interning with director Michael Kantor on The David Bowie music theatre work, Lazarus for The Production Company in Melbourne.
INTIMACY DIRECTING FOR GIRL IN THE MACHINE - May 2019
This month Shondelle is working with director Claudia Barrie and The National Theatre of Parramatta as an Intimacy Co-Ordinator for Stef Smith's scifi drama Girl in the Machine.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMBATS WILD WEEKEND - April 2019
​Shondelle will begin a creative development on an adapted, immersive, multi-sensory musical for young children 2-5 years old and their carers. Based on the play  Wombat's Wild Weekend by Wayne Tunks and produced by Em's Entertainment, Shondelle has been given permission to adapt the show and write new compositions by Shondelle and Composer Daniele Buatti.
DIRECTING OBSERVERSHIP WITH JENN THOMPSON - March-April 2019
​Shondelle has been in East Haddam, CT, USA completing a Directing Observership with Goodspeed Musicals & director Jenn Thompson , choreographer Patti Wilcox and Musical Director Michael O'Flaherty on their latest production, The Music Man.
CHOREOGRAPHER FOR FAT MUSICALS - February 2019
​This February Shondelle will join forces with director Anthea Williams and internationally award winning cabaret artists Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood as they explore body politics in the hilarious Australian premiere of a new show Fat Musicals . .Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as part of the line up for Comedy Kiki. 
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR : METAMORPHOSIS- January-February 2019
​This month Shondelle is working as Movement Director on Clock and Spiels production of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis adapted by David Farr and Gisli Gardarsson. Directed by Amanda Stephens-Lee with designs by Lucy McCougllough and mask work by Luke D'Alessandro. Seen at The Chippen St theatre in Sydney.  ​
INTIMACY DIRECTOR IN TRAINING WITH ITA O'BRIEN - December 2018
​This December, Shondelle was chosen as one of only four directors to attend the Equity Foundation workshops & seminars in Adelaide with the world's leading Intimacy Co-Ordinator, Ita O'Brien.
DIRECTING INTERNSHIP WITH ROSE MEYERS - November-December 2018
​This month Shondelle is traveling to Adelaide to spend time as an intern at Windmill Theatre Company on their award winning production of Rumpelstiltskin. Directed and co-written by Rosemary Meyers, written by Julianne O'Brien with Original compositions by Jethro Woodward.
DIRECTING FELLOWSHIP WITH PING CHONG - September-October 2018
​Shondelle was touring with the internationally award-winning, New York based Ping Chong and Company throughout Alaska, USA as a Directing Fellow on their touring productions of Alaxsxa | Alaska and Beyond Sacred : Voices of Muslim Identity.
INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHER FOR VCA DIRECTORS SHOWCASE - September 2018
Shondelle is currently working in Melbourne as a choreographer with talented director Sara Biglariafshar in her Masters of Directing graduation showcase of the absurdist tragic farce, The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco. Performances will be in October at The Victorian College of The Arts (VCA).
MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHER FOR YOU GOT OLDER - February 2018
This month Shondelle had an amazing experience working with Mad March Hare Theatre Company in Clare Barron's 2015 Obie Award winning play You got Older directed by Claudia Barrie.

"★★★★ An impressively high level of craft"
-- The Sydney Morning Herald
​"★★★★ Pitch perfect performances"
-- The Audrey Journal
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR FOR THE EFFECT - February 2018
Shondelle has been working with director Andrew Henry and Redline Productions on The Effect, a play by Lucy Prebble starring Emilie Cocquerel, Firass Dirani, Emma Jackson and Johnny Nasser.
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE AT IPAY IN PHILADELPHIA  January 2018
Off the back of their recent National tour of Jackie French's Children's Book Diary of a Wombat, Monkey Baa Theatre Company has been invited to perform at the international Performing Arts for Youth conference in Philadelphia, USA. Shondelle will be leaving in January to perform in the show. 

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