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Merissa Tang

Merissa is a technical theatre practitioner from Singapore, with a myriad of skills ranging from Stage/Production Management to Lighting/Projection systems and design. Her works include: Citizen X (Singapore) by The Finger Players (2021), #THEATRE (Singapore) by IN:DEX (2021), SURGE (Melbourne) by Anouk Van Dijk (2020), NAK DARA (Singapore) by P7:1SMA (2020), Shared Fictions (Melbourne) by Jo Lloyd (2019), AMOK>>>>HALT (Vietnam) by VCA/USM (2019), and Guilty Landscapes (Germany) by Singapore International Festival of Arts (2017).

Recipient of the National Arts Council (NAC) Scholarship (Singapore) in 2018, Merissa recently graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design and Production) from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. She continuously expands her theatrical knowledge in hopes of becoming a well-rounded production/technical manager.

Oliver Pool

Oliver Pool specialises in technical lighting and strives to combine cutting edge lighting technology with technical methodologies to create exceptional lighting solutions for artists and performers. Oliver has worked on a range of shows while attending the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with show design credits including Wunderschön Stark choreographed by Michelle Heaven, and MTAFU choreographed by Prue Lang. His technical credits include Head Electrician and Programmer roles on various shows at the VCA. Oliver continues his passion for performance lighting outside of the VCA, pursuing work opportunities with multiple Australian production companies and has a key interest in specialising in live music events.

PJ Reed

PJ is a sound graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), who spent his time developing sound systems and putting them onto the VCA stages.

PJ began as an actor in high school, performing in multiple volunteer shows. PJ really enjoyed bringing smiles to people's faces when he did pantomimes like Peter Pan and Aladdin. However, one day he stood in the spotlight and decided, "I want to help these actors be heard and understood." PJ's father has also been into sound mixing for his local church for quite a long time. This gave him the prior knowledge to study at the VCA.

So PJ decided to start venturing into the world of sound, working on the same shows in different ways like composing and helping to construct the sound system. From then on he attended the VCA to find out what makes Tech behind the scenes work.

Through the VCA, PJ learnt the vastness that shows can reach in terms of complexity. Thus leading his passion into musical theatre and large scale shows. PJ is looking forward to his future work and intends on working his hardest to provide a system that will suit your event.

Baccarat

Strap in – got a show for ya. It’s a gamble: could be a shitshow, could be the best thing you’ve ever seen. Time for a game of…Baccarat.

Don’t hate the house: they’re just doing their job. In fact, come and see them in action: the cashiers, the cleaners, the croupiers and the morticia–

Oops, never mind about that one.

And if you don’t like what you see, don’t worry: the PR team can cut you – I mean, cut it up for you…

Baccarat premiered online in November 2020. To watch edited highlights from this production, please view the video above.

Earthquakes in London

An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

It’s Cabaret, we’ve got our heads down and we’re dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn’t have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone....

Earthquakes in London includes burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. It is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe.

Our House

Camden lad Joe Casey on the night of his 16th birthday, makes a decision that will change his life. Trying to impress Sarah, the girl of his dreams, Joe breaks into a building development overlooking his home on Casey Street. But things take a turn for the worse as the police turn up. Joe's life splits into two; the Good Joe who stays and gives himself up and Bad Joe who flees and leaves Sarah to run from the police.

Our House follows the two paths that Joe's life could take after that fateful night; one path means a criminal record and social exclusion, while the other will lose him the girl that he loves. Over a period of seven years and two alternative lives Joe deals with the consequences of that night. Whilst one Joe fights to keep Sarah, the other is marrying her in a glitzy Vegas wedding and, ultimately, while Good Joe fights to save his house on Casey Street, Bad Joe is determined to demolish it with tragic consequences.

pool (no water)

A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious home and new swimming pool. For one night only, the group is back together, pretending to be bohemian and carefree even though they’re all older now and the rest of them don’t have pools. But a horrific accident puts an end to the nostalgia, and puts their host into a coma.

None of them is sure who was first to take out a camera. And before too long her suffering is being claimed, exploited, delighted in, because it makes wonderful art.

Simulacrum

Who are you and where do you belong? Can you let go of the character you’ve been playing? Lose the facade and dive deep into the wild west of Simulacrum.

Peel back the curtain on the private lives of five creators, as they traverse the frontier worlds of the internet to construct the ultimate alter egos.

Experimental collective 'Neurochemical Bliss' are unafraid to bare all for your entertainment.

Simulacrum premiered online in November 2020. To watch edited highlights of this production, please view the video above.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

A dark comedy by Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan links to the real life filming of the documentary, Man of Aran.

The play is set on the small Aran Islands community of Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) off the Western Coast of Ireland in 1934, where the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inishmore (Inis Mór) to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel. Written by Rupert Holmes, the show was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings. The musical won five Tony Awards out of eleven nominations, including Best Musical.

The World That Was

Collect your ration pack, take off your gas mask, and tune into the world’s last radio broadcast.

In 2035, a normal transmission is interrupted by the end of the world, and we hear the station’s crew as they respond to the news. Cycling through anger, despair, hilarity and surprise dance sequences, listen to these people say goodbye to The World That Was.

Darcy Wischer

Deputy Stage Manager Our House - Technical Rehearsal

Dominic Brown-Downes

Technical Project - Art Finishing

Emily Crosato

Independent Technical Project

Holly Anderson

Stage Manager The Will to Be - Technical Rehearsal

Merissa Tang

Technical Manager Our House

Tom O'Sullivan

Costume Manager Earthquakes in London - Technical rehearsal

Baccarat - Theatre Production

Earthquakes in London - Theatre Production

pool (no water) - Theatre Production

Simulacrum - Theatre Production

The Cripple of Inishmaan - Theatre Production

The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Music Theatre Production