Roslyn Oades
Roslyn Oades is a Naarm-based theatremaker and dramaturg. As an artist, 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 Carrefour International de Theatre (Canada), Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and Bleach Festival. Her award-winning works have toured widely and I’m Your Man has been adapted into an online interactive documentary by SBS. A trilogy of Roslyn’s headphone-verbatim plays, titled Acts of Courage, is available through Currency Press. Roslyn is a member of VicScreen’s 2024 Frame Doc Lab artist cohort where she is developing a new-media audio installation concept, working title The Enormous Radio, in collaboration with writer/artist Sarah Walker. Alongside her own practice, Roslyn is passionate about supporting original artists to realise creatively ambitious new works. Her dramaturgical practice is responsive and focuses on the processes, conditions and questions that enable lead artists (and their teams) to thrive.
For Chamber Made, Roslyn is the host and producer of Audiosketch, a Chamber Made podcast dedicated to innovative artists working across performance, sound & music; has been involved in the iterations of Hi-Viz in 2019, 2020, and 2023, and was mentor for 2024 Little Operations.
