Directory – Contemporary Asian Australian Performance

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CAAP Artist Directory

Our Artist Directory is a platform designed for creatives to discover Asian Australian collaborators. Use the “more filters” function to search for artists via a range of set filters, or the free search function to find artists by key words on their profile and bio.

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In putting together this directory, we’re mindful there are many thoughtful directories and resources out there. Each serves a different purpose, community, or way of working. To support your search for artists and collaborators, feel free to check out the following resources!

Japan Foundation, Sydney
Directory of Japanese Arts and Culture in Australia
A directory of artists practising Japanese arts and culture across artforms in Australia. Artists can request to be included.

Theatre Network Australia
Producers Database
A database of independent performing arts producers supporting independent artists, collectives and companies. Artists can submit their details to be included.

Designers Database
A response to gender inequity in technical design in the performing arts. This directory features female, non-binary and trans designers, supporting more diverse hiring across the sector. Artists can submit their details to be included.

Directory of Malay and Malaysian Creatives and Arts Workers in Australia
Created and run by Haneen Marhood Martin, this is a community network of Malay and Malaysian artists, arts workers and creatives. Since launching in 2023, it has grown into a network of over 70 creatives supporting collaboration and solidarity. Artists can join via this form.

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ABOUT BELOW THE NECK

Late at night in a rundown skatepark, Jett and Kai meet for an arrangement: Kai will get $500 if he allows Jett to beat him up for 5 minutes. With violence hanging over them, the two young men must decide whether they’ll go through with it, or if they can give each other something more. Below The Neck explores how men of colour connect to their bodies, to violence, and to each other.

“I am writing this play for the men of colour in my life, the people who raise me and taught me what it means to be a man, and, hopefully, for future generations , to redefine that meaning for themselves.”

ABOUT GOLDEN BLOOD 黄金血液

Two orphans find their own way into adulthood in this moving, high-octane, and often hilarious coming-of-age drama, set amongst the steamy, tropical backstreets of Singapore’s criminal underworld.

In a once-grand apartment, two estranged siblings – 14-year-old Girland 21-year-old Boy – are thrown back together after the unexpected death of their mother. The naive but headstrong Girl elects Boy as her legal guardian. The only problem is that Boy is a fledgling gangster. The audience watches rapt as this unconventional family grows up, gets entangled in a darkly glamorous world of crime and luxury, and comes to confront the ghosts of their past.

Past Seasons
Griffin Theatre Co (2022) *world premiere
Sydney Theatre Company (2024)
Melbourne Theatre Company (2024)

★★★★★ “Bringing with it a strong sense of self, pace, and culture… it’s a remarkable work.”
– Time Out

★★★★ “Effortlessly funny and wonderfully twisty”
– The Age

★★★★
– Cultural Binge

About Azadi

1947 is known to be a pivotal year in Indian history. It is the year that some may say India gains Azadi from the British Rule and is divided in two nations, one for the Hindu majority, i.e., India and one for the Muslim majority, i.e., Pakistan. It’s a violent affair. No one talks about it.

Qala, born in an Indian Hindu household is taught one thing: she cannot marry a Muslim man. Amir, born in a Pakistani Muslim household is taught the opposite: no Hindu women. Their fated love demands Qala to search for answers from her history where she meets her great-grandmother, Sarasvati, a survivor of Partition.

“I am writing this work for the people who belong to the future, especially the people of India and Pakistan. In many ways we are one and the same, but there are great barriers that stop us from realizing this. I want Azadi to be one story, among many, to be a space where those barriers are questioned and hopefully broken.”

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