Deborah Leiser-Moore
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                       schedule

2023 

COMING SOON

2022 

November 1st - 12th     Day After Terrible Day - performer /devisor with Danger Ensemble at Theatre Works 

October 9th                 Director of performed reading of 'Bayonet' by Alex Borovenskiy, performed by Dan Vynohradov, as part of Ukraine.War.Texts.3.0 at       Les Kurbas Centre, Kyiv 

September 28th          Showing of Peta Coy's development - Theatre Works Artistic Associate - at Explosives Factory

June 28th - Jul7 2nd    All the Rage by Dan Harris - director at Theatre Works 

May 20th - 27th            Residency: Bellingen - development of a new work

All year  ongoing          Leading regular performance workshops at JMC

2021

December       Stage 1 development of new work, HEAVY METTLE, with the unHOWsed Ensemble
                         ADSA conference: unHOWsed: Hidden Voices of Older Homeless Women

September      Medea: Kaddish For The Children and unHOWsed at SerformanceP Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil

August             unHOWsed at Drum Theatre, Dandenong, Australia (followed by Q&A

July                  Workshops at La Trobe University and SAE

June                 PSI Conference unHOWsed and St Kilda: Performance and Place

2020 

September:       unHOWsed (prerecorded) at Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre (CIFET) 

August:             Short film 'Pause' as part of The Centre for the Less Good Ideas (founded by William Kentridge)

July:                   Online discussion as part of Uncut - the COVID lockdown series curated and hosted by Joe Sidek (Penang, Malaysia)

Cancellations and Postponements due to Covid-19
But hopefully coming up in 2021:
* Sri Lanka for part 2 of the Suzuki Workshop at UVPA - and start working on the  production
* PSI conference in Rijeka, Croatia (now in 2021)
* unHOWsed performances - various locations
* Development of I.D.Puss with Israel Aloni (IlDance, Sweden) at Temperance Hall

2019

Nov 18th -26th                      First stage development of I.D Puss (working title) with Israel Aloni - residency at Brunswick Mechanics Institute

Oct 24th - Nov 3rd               unHOWsed at Theatre Works, St Kilda (director)

June 26th - 3rd July             Suzuki workshop/Present Performer at UVPA Colombo, Sri Lanka (workshop leader)

Feb 28th - March 9th           Premier season of Medea: Kaddish For The Children at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne (co-writer/performer)

2018


Continuing as Artist in Residence at Footscray Arts Centre

November                                Thank G-d - short film premieres at JIFF Sydney, Melbourne, canberra and Brisbane (performer/writer)         
                                                  Directed by Richard Moore

October 15-27                          Present Performer/Andante (Younes Bachir) Brisbane How Soon is Now Festival, Backbone Theatre

August 20-26                           KaBooM: Stories From Distant Frontlines at George Town Festival, Penang 

​June 12-13                                 Fitting - short film by Emily Avila at Sydney Film Festival (lead role, Dianne) - Lexus Short Film Award
June 20                                     Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 
August 25                                 Cinefestoz Film Festival, Western Australia
​October 14/18                           BFI London Film Festival

March 18-25                              Unknown Neighbours as part of Festival Of Live Arts at Theatre Works (and surrounds) -
                                                   (working with Ranters Theatre in the collaboration with South Korean company Creative VaQi)

Jan 26-31                                  Filming of Fitting (main role) - a new short film by Emily Avila. To be screened at Sydney Film Festival in June

2107

All year as Company/Artist in Residence at Footscray Arts Centre - development of I:MEDEA for presentation in 2018

​December 4th/5th and Jan '18     Creative Development of Subletting at 50 at Northcote Town Hall 

August 27 -September 3rd           The Dead Twin at George Town Festival, Penang, Malaysia 
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May 26th                                         My Body, My Country - Queer Zagreb, Croatia

​May 25th                                         Teaching The Present Performer workshop at Queer Zagreb Festival (Domino Arts at Plesni Dance Centre)
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April 10 - May7th                             Unknown Neighbour with Ranters Theatre (Australia) and VaQi (Korea) at Ansan Festival, South Korea


March 28th - 31st                            The Present Performer/Andante Workshop with Younes Bachir at FCAC
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2016

All year as Company/Artist in Residence at Footscray Arts Centre
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December 12th -30th                     Working with Ranters Theatre Company - development of a work to be performed at Ansan Arts Festival, Korea, in 2017

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December 3rd - 10th                       Eleanor and Mary Alice at Perth Centre for Contemporary Photography 

November 7th-8th                           Teaching The Present Performer workshop at Sounded Bodies Festival (Domino Arts at Plesni Dance Centre)

October 22nd - November 13th:     I: Medea residency at Domino (Zagreb, Croatia) 

September 27th - 29th                     Plays for Australia at Art Centre Melbourne 

September 8th - 11th:                        Leah Goldberg Variations at The Butterfly Club

July 8th:                                             The Procrastination Project at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, for PSI#22 

June 25th:                                          Leah Goldberg Variations extract at Limmud Oz Gala

June 17th/18th:                                  The Dead Twin at Showcase Victoria

May 30th - June 3rd:                        Mermaid Terrorist creative development at Footscray Arts Centre
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February 24th/25th:                         The Dead Twin pitch at Metro Arts APAM

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  • NEWS
  • SCHEDULE
  • PERFORMANCE WORKS
    • Medea: Kaddish For The Children
    • KaBooM: Stories From Distant Frontlines
    • My Body, My Country
    • Cordelia, Mein Kind
    • Leah Goldberg Variations
    • The Procrastination Project
    • a room with no air
    • Hungry
    • Here and There - Then and Now
    • In Development >
      • APRES SAVAGE
  • DIRECTION
    • unHOWsed
    • The Dead Twin
    • Eleanor and Mary Alice
    • The Cool Room
    • Wasted Underground
    • HazChem!
    • DeKlein of Pigs and Men
  • WORK WITH OTHER ARTISTS/COMPANIES
  • SHORT WORKS
    • Thank G-d
    • Eve'n'So
  • Film
  • WORKSHOPS
  • ABOUT ME
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