Caroline Stacey was recently appointed the Artistic Director of The Street Theatre in the ACT and is the current Artistic Director of the Castlemaine State Festival. She has directed a diverse portfolio of theatre, opera and music and lectures in drama and stagecraft at the Victorian College of the Arts Opera School. The Tender Land for Operalive, and Mozart's The Magic Flute for Opera Melbourne were both nominated for Victoria's Green Room Awards in 2004. For Stopera Caroline directed Il filosofo di campagna (The Country Philosopher) in 2003 and Jane Eyre in 2005, both recipients of a Canberra Critics Circle Award.
in 2006 Caroline will direct the Australian Premiere of Nigredo Hotel.
Caroline Stacey Director Caroline is a Melbourne- based director who completed her Master of Theatre Arts (Directing) at the University of Newcastle. Since 1996, she has lectured in drama and stagecraft at the Victorian College of the Arts Opera School. She is currently Artistic Director of the Castlemaine State Festival, one of Australia’s major regional multi-arts festivals, and responsible for two highly successful box-office breaking festivals. Caroline directed Il filosofo di campagna (The Country Philosopher) for Stopera in 2003 and Jane Eyre in 2005, both recipients of a Canberra Critics Circle Award. Other opera and music credits include: Pimpinone (West Australian Opera); The English Eccentrics, L’enfant et les sortilèges (Melbourne International Festival of the Arts); Lakme (Canterbury Opera); Madame Butterfly, The Magic Flute (Melbourne Opera); Medea (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra); The Tender Land, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Albert Herring (Operalive); Love of Three Oranges, Rusalka (Victorian College of the Arts); Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Geminiani Orchestra); La Bohème (EMO); Carmen (Hunter Opera); The Mikado (Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan Society) and Chess (Ballarat Light Opera Company).
Caroline has been nominated for Victorian Green Room Awards many times and is currently a Committee member of the Australian Puccini Foundation Award and the German-Australian Operatic Grant. Caroline also has an extensive career as a stage director and in 1999 worked as Artistic Director of Outback Youth Theatre in central NSW. She is best known for her hugely successful productions of The Vagina Monologues and Late Nite Catechism directed in Australia and New Zealand. Community arts projects include: Stories from Stone (Melbourne Cemetery), Keeping the Flame Alive (Western Riverina Olympic Torch Relay Event featuring over 1500 performers), Westmead & All That Jazz (Western Sydney Area Health Service), Simply the West (Westmead Hospital) and A Drink for the Dinosaur Girl (Newcastle Museum). In 2004 Caroline worked as an arts consultant for Knox City Council managing its community music, performing arts, and heritage programs together with arts policy development. Caroline has sat on artistic panels for Arts Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria and is currently working for the Festnet New Directions Project as a mentor to the National Celtic Festival and the Stitched Up Textile Festival.
last update; 2005
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