Kim Schneiders - Executive Co-ordinator
Kim was Arts Co-ordinator at St Georges Special School working with students with intellectual disabilities for six years. Kim won a National Excellence in Teaching award, acknowledging the high standard of these programs. Kim also held the position of Senior Curriculum Officer for the Arts in the Esk District. Initially she conducted a state of the art survey for the Department and in the following 3 years was involved in a number of arts and community projects, most notably Streets Alive Youth Arts festival, Media Postcards, CarPark Cinema and the Musical Playground at St Georges School. At Launceston College she headed the media department. She has been an executive of each Streets Alive and is currently Youth Project Officer at the Queen Victoria Museum. Kim is interested in youth arts and is currently on Stompin Youth Dance Company's Board. Kim is president of Interweave and has worked on all three past Streets Alive festivals.
Angela Driver - Executive Co-ordinator
Angela gained her bachelor of Performing Arts from the University of Tasmania in 1999. She has worked with Tasdance as Administrative Manager since the beginning of 2002 and is currently studying at the University of South Australia's International Graduate School of Management to gain a Diploma of Business (Arts). Angela's theatre directing credits include The Return, Something to Declare, The Boys and Annette and Annette for Centrstage and Low Level Panic for Second Storey Theatre Company (2000-2004). She also directed The Vagina Monologues in 2002 and last year direct two shows for the infamous One Day project, where in 24 hours four plays were written, rehearsed and performed for a live audience. In 2003 Angela was the Artistic Coordinator for Streets Alive Youth Arts Festival. She has been a semi-finalist for the Tasmanian Young Achiever Award 2004 and 2005.
Stuart Loone - Executive Assistant
Stuart graduated from the University of Tasmania theatre degree in 1997 and is well known as a creator of innovative theatre. Stuart has been involved in the theatre and film industry in many capacities, as director, performer, dramaturg, community director and administrator. In administration he has worked as Administrator for Tasdance, Administrative Assistant for Second Storey Youth Theatre and Theatre North. He is currently the Artistic Director of the One Day Projects where new, short works are written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours. Directing credits include ionta for the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania, the Australian premiere of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens; Associate Director on Theatre North's Our Path, for Second Story The Coming of Stork, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and The Removalists; Underneath the Lintel, Little Murders and The Importance of Being Earnest for Three River Theatre; Footloose for Launceston College. Stuart has also directed the youth productions of Final Answer and Michael Gow's Away for make/shift theatre. He also appears regularly on stage and is currently studying his Masters of Contemporary Arts in Theatre.
Kellijayne Lynch - Production Manager
Kellijayne is a well respected stage and production manager. Starting her career in Tasmania co-ordinating entertainment progammes for festivals such as Festivale and stage managing theatre productions around Tasmania, Kellijayne worked extensively with Robert Jarman and the Theatre Royal. Moving to Melbourne in 2003, she has since worked with artists and groups such as Renee Geyer, Paul Capsis, Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Kransky Sisters and Melbourne Opera. Festivals include Melbourne Fringe, Big West and Melbourne International Arts Festival. Kellijayne regularly works at La Mama Theatre and St Martins Youth Arts Centre. After Streets Alive, Kellijayne is touring with Carolyn Connors' one woman show Material Mouth.