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Zsuzsi Soboslay (she/her)

Zsuzsi Soboslay is an artist, director, writer, mentor, performer and educator who has worked across Australia’s east coast and in the UK.  She has taught in performing and visual arts including immersive programs, and is currently an educator at Bundanon.  Her training includes work in the community arts and disabilities sectors, in ideokinesis, mindbody integration practices and Butoh.

She regularly works in collaboration with visual artists and musicians, creating new theatre works and activations in museums and galleries such as the NPG, NGA, ANCA, Tom Bass Sculpture Prize, Craft ACT, and Tidbinbilla.

Theatre credits, as an actor, dancer and movement director include:

  • 2024 – The Shoe-Horn Sonata, by John Misto, The Mill Theatre, ACT
  • 2022-4 – Four plays by Millicent Armstrong dir. Dianna Nixon for Music Theatre Projects, performed in SE regional tour
  • 2023 – The Trials by Dawn King, CYT @ CTC 
  • 2023 – And….Breathe, an award-winning dance-on-film love-letter to Canberra’s community and environment following the 2019-20 bushfires and Covid lockdowns
  • 2023 – White Rabbit Red Rabbit, a play about exile by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, for The Mill Theatre, ACT
  • 2022 – Handel’s Alcina for National Opera Canberra, Lewellyn Hall
  • 2022 – Doula by Emily Casey at The Street Theatre
  • 2022 – Victory Over the Sun by Justene Williams/Sydney Chamber Opera/ANU Chamber Choir, Gandel Hall, NGA 
  • 2020 – Director, The Story of the Oars, by Nigel Featherstone (online) for the Street Theatre, Friday May 18 2020 (during lockdown).
  • 2017 – Movement director, Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse (Street Theatre, Canberra. 
  • 2015 – The Chain Bridge by Tom Davis, Street Theatre Canberra 

Creator, writer, performer and producer of major works (incorporating deep community engagement and varying performance styles, including:

  • L’Optimisme, interactive performance first performed for the NGA Enlighten Festival (March 2013) 
  • The Compassion Plays, Gorman Arts Centre (2016) and Anthems and Angels, The Street Theatre, Canberra (2014-15). These were both immersive theatre works centred on the refugee experience involving actors, musicians, video artist and refugee communities. 
  • Her Moon Stories: The Day the World Changed, brought together First Nations elders, young high school students, older dancers and media students from UC to create live performance events at Tidbinbilla and Mount Stromlo. It won the National Trust: Heritage Award in 2019
  • The Culture Hub, created with the Canberra South Sudanese community, won Outstanding Excellence, ACT Multicultural Awards,  2018. 

Photo: Andrew Sikorski

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