Our People
Artistic Director: Sally Richardson
Productions of her work have been seen nationally and internationally.
Her work has been a winner/finalist for Helpmann Awards, Green Room Awards, Equity Guild Awards, Ausdance Awards, Dance Australia Critics Choice Award amongst others. Projects range from theatre, dance, circus, puppetry, to corporate events, community projects and consultancy.
She was a recipient of an Australia Council Dramaturgy fellowship in 2006, and a Creative Fellowship from the Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts in 2008. She was a member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council (2001-5), and is currently artistic director of Steamworks Arts Productions (since 2001). Sally is a current board member of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, and on the Artistic advisory for Deckchair Theatre. Sally was the Australian representative dramaturg for the New Visions, New Voices International Festival held in May 2010 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
Successes include the tour of The Drover's Wives to Shanghai and Beijing International Festivals, writing/directing new works for NICA and The Promise for The Flying Fruitfly Circus (Sydney Festival 2009) which won the 2009 Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children. Recent projects include directing the Western Australian premiere of The Danger Age by Kate Mulvaney for Deckchair Theatre, presented in association with Steamworks. Sally is currently undertaking the creative development of The Lost Boys with Pinstripe Circus and The Ghost's Child with Performing LinesWA.
Sally was the creative director of Live@Woodside 2010:Living Energy. A creative partnership of Steamworks with Woodside, now in it's third year. She is also acting as Special Projects Manager for Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company and is the dramaturg/producer for Waltzing the Wilarra which will premiere at the 2011 Perth International Arts Festival.
Writing Credits:
The Drover's Wives, H20, Splat!, The Magic Garden, The Promise, Rhapsody, Rare Earth, I am Nijinksy, Five Fingers, Kamarade, Picasso and Francoise, So is it a lover?, Rites, Eliza
(Adaptations) The Ghost's Child, Medea 05, Antigone, Miss Julie, 3 Sisters, Virginia Who?
I am very proud of the Steamworks commitment to it's people at every level. We are both a family and a creative community. 2010 sees us enter our tenth year of operation working with individuals and organisations on projects across Australia.