Rocky

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Live on Stage

Ian is a New Zealand-born award winning actor, writer, director and producer for both stage and screen. Ian’s acting credits include 37 stage plays as well as short films, feature films, and TV commercials. He has written and directed nine stage plays and seven short films.

Ian's short films have been shown at festivals around Australia, the United States and Europe. More recently Ian has produced his first feature film, Lost & Found, which is due for release in April 2018.

Jess is an arts educator specialising in the field of drama. Her experiences include directing, playwriting, dramaturgy and facilitation of student theatre works. On occasion, Jess has been known to dabble in acting, describing herself as a 'passable' performer.

Jess is currently completing her masters degree in Applied Theatre Studies, focusing on engaging new voices in regional theatre making.

Jesse's a familiar face from a diverse mix of productions, from the Red Foot Cabaret's outings to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and original wartime musical The Home Front. Most recently, he took on the complex central role in Monsoon, an original play inspired by cyclone Marcia and performed on the beachfront in Yeppoon.

Stella is a rock of the local theatre community both on stage and behind the scenes. She;s an essential ingredient in a vast number of Little Theatre productions in both Rockhampton and Yeppoon, and one of the stars of feature Film Lost and Found, due for release in April 2018.

Jodie van de Wetering is a Rockhampton local and a writer, performer and community arts worker. She spent 15 years with the ABC as a reporter and broadcaster, and these days organises open-access community performances and is involved in theatre, comedy and improv. She's also the editor of Rocky Street Press, a fledgeling online arts and culture magazine covering the CQ region and rural and regional Australia more broadly.

One of her projects with ABC Wide Bay in Bundaberg was Upson Downs, a five-part serialised radio comedy produced in collaboration with a local theatre company. That, combined with nerdy comedy interests like I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, planted the seeds for what's now become Rocky Radio: Live on Stage.

Rod Ainsworth is a creative producer, writer and director working in Bundaberg. Impatient to make a difference in regional Queensland, he co-founded not-for-profit regional arts production company Creative Regions Limited in 2008.

Rod is a writer and producer and loves working beyond his comfort zone in new artforms and new collaborations. He wrote the libretto for an opera, The Crushing, and produced a feature documentary about the AFLOAT Creative Recovery Project in Bundaberg after the 2013 floods. He's no stranger to CQ - after cyclone Marcia he worked with Capricorn Coast communities and schools to document locals' experiences and feelings, and the results became Monsoon, a play with music that debuted on the Yeppoon foreshore in November 2017.

Rod has worked with our local playwrights to refine and polish their scripts, and provided guidance around structuring our show and making Rocky Radio: Live on Stage a reality. Thank you Rod!