Roslyn Oades
Roslyn Oades is an award-winning Naarm-based theatremaker. She harbours an ongoing fascination with innovative forms of creative-nonfiction storytelling and received the 2019 Green Room Award for Technical Achievement in acknowledgement of pioneering body of audio-theatre works. Roslyn’s productions have been commissioned by RISING, Malthouse, Sydney Festival, Belvoir, Utp, Windmill, Vitalstatistix, Hothouse and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Her original works for stage include: Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday, I’m Your Man, Creation Creation, Stories of Love & Hate, Fast Cars & Tractor Engines, Cutaway–A Portrait and the immersive work for children, In a Deep Dark Forest. Her site-responsive audio installations include: Cell 26, an audio work for a prison bed, Sea Stories, an audio work for sunrise and The Nightline (co-created with Bob Scott) an underground club for insomniacs commissioned by RISING 2021 and presented at Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and Bleach Festival in 2022. Her productions have toured widely and I’m Your Man was adapted into an online interactive documentary by SBS. A trilogy of Roslyn’s headphone-verbatim plays, titled Acts of Courage, is published through Currency Press. Roslyn is the producer and host of Audiosketch Podcast (‘art dates with pioneering female/non-binary sound artists’) for Chamber Made and recently directed her first commercial audio-fiction podcast You Don’t Know Me for LiSTNR. Roslyn is a sought-after dramaturg, industry mentor and guest speaker in the field of contemporary documentary performance – and moonlights as a gun-for-hire voice artist on the side.
Roslyn was involved in both the 2020 and 2019 iterations of Hi-Viz.
