Caroline Stacey

Director

Completed her Master of Theatre Arts (Directing) at the University of Newcastle. Since 1996, she has lectured in drama and stagecraft at the Victorian College of the Arts Opera School. She is currently Artistic Director of the Castlemaine State Festival, one of Australia’s major regional multi-arts festivals, and responsible for two highly successful box-office breaking festivals. .

Opera and music credits include: Jane Eyre, Il filosofo di campagna (Stopera); Pimpinone (West Australian Opera); The English Eccentrics, L’enfant et les sortilèges (Melbourne International Festival of the Arts); Lakme (Canterbury Opera); Madame Butterfly, The Magic Flute (Melbourne Opera); Medea (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra); The Tender Land, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Albert Herring (Operalive); Love of Three Oranges, Rusalka (Victorian College of the Arts); Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Geminiani Orchestra); La Boheme (EMO); Carmen (Hunter Opera); The Mikado (Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan Society) and Chess (Ballarat Light Opera Company). Caroline has been nominated for Green Room Awards many times and is the recipient of Canberra Critics Circle, Victorian Music Theatre and Newcastle Drama Awards. She is currently a Rotary Acclaim Awards Board member.

Caroline also has an extensive career as a stage director and in 1999 worked as Artistic Director of Outback Youth Theatre in central NSW. She is best known for her hugely successful productions of The Vagina Monologues and Late Nite Catechism directed in Australia and New Zealand. Community arts projects include: Stories from Stone (Melbourne Cemetery Federation Project), Keeping the Flame Alive (Western Riverina Olympic Torch Relay Event), Westmead & All That Jazz (Western Sydney Area Health Service), Simply the West (Westmead Hospital) and A Drink for the Dinosaur Girl (Newcastle Museum). Caroline works as an arts consultant for Knox City Council managing community music, performing arts, and heritage programs.