Tamara Searle

Tamara Searle is a performance maker and director. She makes live and digital performance with uncommon performers, and for uncommon sites, including shopping centres, rivers, mudflats, libraries, and forests. She is artistic associate with Back to Back Theatre and has collaborated to make work with InBetween Time - Bristol, National Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Thikwa Berlin, Festival Utrecht, and Milton Keynes International Festival. As an independent artist she has collaborated with Jackson Castiglione on Future Echoes (Arts Centre Melbourne), with composer Christopher Harley on his work for Homegrown (VCA) and with Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy on a sound work for the Royal Botanic Gardens. Her writing and directing for film include PRICE (2015 nominated for a multicultural media award), a series in which disabled artist Scott Price interviews people about provocation in art. She co-created collaborative filmmaking residency RADIAL, designed for vulnerable people to access performance and film making technology, which has been activated in Berlin, Scotland and Geelong. She has directed multiple iterations of The Democratic Set, including in Utrecht, Bristol, and Milton Keynes. Her work an actor included principal roles in Stiff for Channel 7 opposite David Wenham (2005), and as principal character in Working Dog's mockumentary All Aussie Adventures - a parody of adventure TV (2006).