Leading names to star in QTC's Creative Development Series

Some of Queensland's leading stars of the stage have been announced as part of Queensland Theatre Company's Creative Development Series, the incubator program of new ideas, art, performance and exploration presented in The GreenHouse (Bille Brown Studio). Performers like the critically acclaimed Christen O'Leary, fresh from her incredible run as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow and Hugh Parker, star of QTC's Season 2013 opener The Pitch, join forces with Matilda-Award-winners Eugene Gilfedder, Melanie Zanetti, and Kathryn Marquet, and O'Leary's End of the Rainbow co-star Anthony Standish.

QTC Artistic Director Wesley Enoch said having these incredible actors lead from centrestage was a great coup for the Creative Development Series.

Enoch explained "creative development is how we cultivate and nurture the next generation of projects we invite everyone to come along and experience this program, it's important we have great audiences."

Eugene Gilfedder, Hugh Parker and Melanie Zanetti will take the lead in the Play Reading and Development Showing of Matthew Ryan's Bull on 19th April (Matthew Ryan wrote the award-winning Kelly which QTC premiered in season 2012).

The next evening in The GreenHouse will see Kathryn Marquet, Christen O'Leary and Anthony Standish in the Play Reading of Gloria by Elaine Acworth on 20th April. The Creative Development Series projects use a mix of physical theatre and clown, new writing, music and dance, design and animation, sexy new ideas and heated conversations. Each project has a short intensive period to invent, play, explore and build their performance ideas culminating in a show and tell' for the public. It is the chance for the public to witness and be part of new works at their very beginning.

The Creative Development Series begins on Wednesday 27th March with the Development Showing of Candy Bowers' Twelve, with musical direction by Busty Beatz.

The Creative Development Series program includes:

Twelve at the Bille Brown Studio 27th March

Written, directed and conceived by Candy Bowers

Twelve is a piece of soulful music theatre based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and set in the aftermath of a major natural disaster. This showing is the result of a two-week creative development and the audience's chance to glimpse the next big thing from the creators of festival hit Australian Booty.

Black Queen Black King at the Bille Brown Studio 28th March

Play Reading & Development Showing

When Kaiden discovers his closest friend, an indigenous drag queen called Rachael Discrimination, is not who he thinks she is, his world finally fractures. Told through song, comedy and with a drag aesthetic, Black Queen Black King is the high energy musical of three indigenous gay men that explores the importance of identity, the meaning of family and the need for honesty.

*Please note Black Queen Black King contains coarse language and adult themes.

Total Dik, a QTC project 11th April

An exploration of the dictator, the corruptive influence of power and the male obsessive compulsion to dominate others. A design-led creative development process involving artists Matthew Delbridge, Todd MacDonald, Nathan Sibthorpe, Chris Kohn and Lee McGowan.

*Please note Total Dik contains coarse language and adult themes.

Trollop at the Bille Brown Studio 12th April

Winner of the Queensland Premier's Drama Award 2012-13, Maxine Mellor will lock herself in a room with QTC's Artistic Director Wesley Enoch to sharpen the teeth of her new play Trollop. We invite you to join us for a reading of the latest draft and contribute your feedback. Following the reading, the creative team give a sneak preview of how they plan to bring floods, wild boars, and a troll to the Bille Brown Studio stage.

*Please note Trollop contains coarse language and adult themes.

Bull at the Bille Brown Studio 19th April

Play Reading & Development Sh

http://www.queenslandtheatre.com.au