Ian Pidd is a freelance director of theatre and events. He is currently the Artistic Director
of Junction Festival in Launceston, after directing the festival for the first time as part of
the National Regional Arts Conference held in Launceston in August 2010. He was co-
Artistic Director of SAC 35 celebrating the anniversary of the Salamanca Arts Centre in
Hobart. He was for four years Artistic Director of the acclaimed Back to Back Theatre
with whom his productions included Boom Town, the Green Room nominated Minds Eye
and a number of award winning short films. Ian is currently involved in the creation of a
new work with Men Of Steel, premiering at the Malthouse in 2013.
Ian was Creative Director of the Moomba Festival in 1998. From then as Performance
Director of Snuff Puppets Ian created large-scale performances in Japan, Singapore,
Brazil, Europe and in many parts of Australia. His collaborative Snuff Puppet productions
Forest and The Cow Show toured throughout Europe and Asia. In January 2005 Ian
directed the Snuff Puppet opening performance for the World Social Forum in Brazil.
Nyet Net’s Picnic, a large performance with a group of senior indigenous artists, opened
the ASSITEJ festival in Adelaide.
Ian is Programming Artistic Director of The Village, a festival of gorgeous short works
which has an annual incarnation in Melbourne, and celebrated seasons in regional
Victoria and Tasmania, including as part of the last 7 Falls Festivals in Lorne (VIC) and
Marion Bay (TAS). Ian was Chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival from 1997 to 2002. In
1998 Ian was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to undertake work with theatre companies
and festivals in New York and Europe.
Ian has directed a number of large-scale CCD projects including Material World (an
installation for Fed Square made in collaboration with asylum seekers), The Bonegilla
Experience (a multi art form festival with mature migrants) and co-directed with Jessica
Wilson The Western Ring Cycle (a series of bus-theatre-works created with diverse
communities in Melbourne’s West.)
Ian was until recently a member of the Performing Arts Committee of Asialink, and has
undertaken a number of creative projects in the region. He has directed a series of
projects based in Yogyakarta, including events for the Yogya festival and a major project
with Indonesian Architect Eko Prawoto. He recently completed a post-graduate research
project at the Centre For Creative Arts at Melbourne University based on this work in
Yogyakarta.
Joey is an Australian freelance designer and inventor of
sets, structures, rigging and contraptions for theatre. His designs are always
an intrinsic part of the narrative. They are more than just a backdrop with
which the performers need to interact.
Prior to moving to Australia in 1996 he was key artist and
technical manager of Dogtroep, one of Europe’s renowned, site-specific theatre
companies.
In Australia Joey has designed and built for Stalker,
Marrugeku, Legs on the Wall, Gravity Feed, Kantanka and Urban Theatre
Productions.
Incidental productions for which he was co-writer and
designer/engineer are: ‘Dream Masons’ on the façade of Salamanca Arts Centre in
Hobart, Tasmania; he directed his own site specific show ‘Volta’, a designer
driven event in the foyer of ‘Carriage Works’, Sydney; he designed and directed
'the Lunchbox', an opera in Hobart for IHOS; and he co-wrote and designed
'FireWater', a large scale water spectacle in the harbour of Sydney as part of
the first Vivid festival.
In 2009 he received a Theatre board Fellowship. This year
Joey designed the Perth International Arts Festival's impressive new
contemporary music hub, the Festival Gardens, leading a team of WA visual
artists.
Joey also leads workshops in the designing and making of
performing objects and installations, and he teaches methodology to performance
makers for self-devised, site and community specific visual theatre.
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