Theatre & performance

My Shows

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  • Democracy Repair Services

    Democracy Repair Services is a play I wrote that premiered at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth in November 2023. It’s a play about four teenage climate activists, powerlessness, democracy and the bogong moth. Alongside the season, we also presented a program of community events including: workshops with Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the Climate Justice Union, a community library with the books that inspired the writing and banner-painting with Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action.

    Best Writing Award at Blue Room Theatre 2023 & Best Ensemble at Performing Arts WA awards 2023

    Project Credits

    Writer: Noemie Huttner-Koros
    Director: Andrew Sutherland
    Assistant Director: Makaela Rowe-Fox
    Producer: Briannah Davis
    Cast: Rali Maynard, Zoe Garciano, Phoebe Gabriel Critti-Shnaars
    Sound design: David Stewart
    AV design & photography: Edwin Sitt
    Lighting design: Jasmine Lifford
    Set and costume design: Molly Werner

  • The Lion Never Sleeps

    The Lion Never Sleeps is a walking performance about the queer history of Perth and the community response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. The audience listens to interviews I conducted with elders of Perth’s LGBTQIA+ community and visits the sites and remnants of these places. This project involved interviewing and connecting with LGBTQIA+ elders and community organisations and fostering intergenerational dialogue between younger and older queer people.

    Project credits:

    Creator & director: Noémie Huttner-Koros
    Sound recordist, composer and sound designer: Josten Myburgh
    Performers: Aisyah Aaqil Sumito, Ev Snook, Rhubarb Doneo & Noémie Huttner-Koros
    Music: Jameson Feakes & Djuna Lee
    Producer: Georgia Ivers
    Publicist: Kayla MacGillivray
    Interviewees: JC, Claire Bushby, Colin Young, Sandra Hayes, Mark Reid, Meredith Jackson, Carl Gopalkrishnan

    This project was developed as part of the LGBTQIA+ Still Here residency lab through Propel Youth Arts WA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Perth Festival. It then received further development and a premiere season at the Blue Room Theatre’s Winter Nights (July 24-27 2019). The Lion Never Sleeps had a sold-out season as part of the FRINGEWORLD and The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights program 28 January - 2 February 2020. We also held an evening of queer intergenerational storytelling at King Street Arts Centre in January 2020 called Unsung Heroes.

    Nominated for 4 Performing Arts WA awards 2020 & named in Australian Book Review’s Arts Highlights of 2019

    Season history:
    - Boorloo Heritage Festival, May 2023
    - The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights program, 28 January - 2 February 2020
    - The Blue Room Theatre’s Winter Nights program, July 24-27 2019
    -KickstART Youth Arts Festival 2019

    Reviews:
    Out in Perth, The Lion Never Sleeps is an Essential Work for this moment
    Isolated Nation

  • Participatory, joyful and tender. Mother of Compost invites audiences into creative and unexpected ways to create and nurture families in the face of the climate crisis. We live in an ecologically precarious time. Some of us don’t want to bring children into this world, others are worried their children won’t have a world to grow old into ... but we’ve still got a whole lot of love to give. Rethink what it means to give birth and be birthed, and dance along with us in this gooey, camp and interactive subversion of family portraits, birthing classes and evolutionary biology.

    Project credits:

    Writer & performer: Noemie Huttner-Koros
    Director: Andrew Sutherland
    Dramaturg: Sam Nerida
    Set & costume design: Molly Werner
    AV Design: Edwin Sitt
    Sound design: Lyndon Blue
    Stage manager: Catherine O’Donoghue

    Production History:
    - Melbourne Fringe 2023, Motley Bauhaus - Nominated for Best Theatre
    - M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023
    - Bunbury Fringe Festival 2023
    - The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights 2022

    Photo credits: Edwin Sitt & Dan McBride

    Reviews:
    SeeSaw Magazine
    Critics Circle Blog

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The Lion Never Sleeps

Democracy Repair Services

Photo credits: Edwin Sitt

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The Lion Never Sleeps at Boorloo Heritage Festival 2023, credit: City of Perth

  • I was the Graduate Dramaturg at Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2023 and worked on the Australian premiere of Shhh by Clare Barron, directed by Emma Valente.

    Shhhh is a fiercely provocative new play about empowerment, bodies, consent and how we might learn to listen to one another's complex desires. From the acclaimed writer of Dance Nation and You Got Older.

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Shhhh by Clare Barron, directed by Emma Valente at Red Stitch Actors Theatre

Photos by Jodie Hutchinson

Trash Pop Butterflies Dance Dance Paradise by Maki Morita, directed by Amelia Burke - at Theatreworks, Melbourne

Photo credits: Georgi Ivers

A person in a short-sleeved shirt and gloves stands with arms raised against a dark background.

Mother of Compost

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Person reclining in a pile of cables and debris, wearing sunglasses and gloves, with mushrooms on their lap.

Photo credits: Edwin Sitt

Dramaturgy

A man in a green sweater stands next to a woman lying on the floor, surrounded by colorful fabric and blankets, with a nature-themed backdrop featuring red and pink trees.
Two performers in costume, wearing helmets with antennae, in a dimly lit theatrical setting. The background features colorful graffiti and decorations.

Democracy Repair Services at The Blue Room Theatre, November 2023.

Film credit: Edwin Sitt

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