ABOUT me
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Bridget trained as a director at the VCA and Australian National University and works primarily with new Australian writing. From 2020 to 2023 they were Director in Residence at the Malthouse in Melbourne. For Malthouse, Bridget has directed Nosferatu by Keziah Warner, K-Box by Ra Chapman and Stay Woke by Aran Thangaratnam. For the Malthouse Bridget was Assistant Director on the large-scale immersive work, Because The Night , and directed the digital productions of The Lockdown Monologues and Hello, World!
Other directing credits include Fast Food (Red Stitch), HYDRA (Darebin Arts), She is Vigilante (Theatre Works), MORAL PANIC (Darebin Arts), Desert, 6.29pm (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre/Wuhzen Theatre Festival), GROUND CONTROL (Next Wave/Brisbane Festival), Mormon girl (Melbourne fringe), Jurassica (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre/Critical Stages), and Kids Killing Kids (Next Wave and sipat lawin). Bridget was Assistant Director on The Dream (Bell Shakespeare) and The Histrionic (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company).
In 2015 and 2016 they lived in New York, where he worked with downtown legends Elevator Repair Service and for Wooster Group alumna, Anna Kohler. Bridget was a part of the inaugural Melbourne Theatre Company’s ‘Women’ Director’s program in 2014 and has been the recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Award, Mike Walsh Fellowship, and Dame Joan Sutherland Awar.