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Shondelle
Pratt

Shondelle Pratt
Director / Choreographer / Intimacy Director / Artist
 
Shondelle is a theatre maker, intimacy director, choreographer, performer, teaching artist and award-winning web series writer.

She has worked with Australia's leading theatre companies including  Monkey Baa, CDP,  Ensemble Theatre, Force Majeure, Pacific Opera, The Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Squabbalogic,  Mad March Hare Theatre Company and Redline Productions. Most recently she worked as Resident Director for Bring It On The Musical for David Venn Productions - Melbourne season. Earlier this year Shondelle was in the UK working on a residency with Bamboozle Theatre Company thanks to the generosity of the Mike Walsh Fellowship. She is currently in training to become an Intimacy Coordinator through Ita O'Brien & Intimacy On Set.


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December 2020

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK  - October 2020
Shondelle did a number of choreography sessions with Director Sahn Millington  and the cast of Picnic at Hanging Rock. It's currently on at the New Theatre until December 19.

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CONSENT IN THE REHEARSAL ROOM WORKSHOP  - September 2020
Shondelle had a blast with the Pakemin Productions "We Will Rock You" cast as the facilitator for "Consent in the Rehearsal Space." A series of workshops designed around the Intimacy On Set principles of touch & consent. A special thank you is needed for Director & Producer Neil Gooding for his invitation. Also an enormous thank you to the "We Will Rock You" Director Wayne Scott Kermond, Choreographer Katie Kermond & Production Manager Jordan Vassallo.

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INTIMACY COORDINATOR IN TRAINING  - July 2020
Shondelle is currently in training with Ita O'Brien to become a certified Intimacy Coordinator with Intimacy On Set. She is looking for opportunities to work with filmmakers under the mentorship of Ita O'Brien. This is an exciting opportunity. You can find more information on Ita's latest projects here. You can also view the IOS Intimacy Guidelines

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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. 
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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. 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.  ​

Review by Lisa Hatcher
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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.

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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.

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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).
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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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