Tamara Searle CV

QUALIFICATIONS (Selected)

Master of Arts. Theatre Practice. Monash University. Melbourne. 2011. 

Graduate Diploma. Theatre Practice. Monash University. Melbourne. 2008.

Bachelor of Health Science. Charles Sturt University. 2000.

Diploma of Dance. The Australian Ballet School. Melbourne. 1994.

ARTISTIC WORKS (Selected)

2026               

if you ask us | Director and creator | National Youth Theatre, Finnish National Theatre  

2025               

Multiple Bad Things | Director and creator | Back to Back Theatre and Sydney Festival and Sydney Opera House, Kyoto Experiment, Wuzhen Festival. 

My Mind is a Beast | Director and creator | National Youth Theatre, Finnish National Theatre

The Dig | Director and creator | Finnish National Theatre

2024                 

Multiple Bad Things | Director and creator | Back to Back Theatre and Geelong Playhouse, Geelong; Theatre du Wallonie, Bruxelles; Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. 

Territorial Business | Co -director and facilitator | CIFAS Brussels  

2023               

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes | Season Director | Back to Back Theatre

and Theatre De La Bastille, Paris; Theatre Du Bretagne, Rennes; Mousonturm Kunstlerhaus, Frankfurt; Theatre Garonne; Toulouse. 

Territorial Business | Co - director and facilitator | Back to Back Theatre and Theatre Du Bretagne, Rennes

Portrait | Lead Artist | Geelong Gallery and Back to Back Theatre

2022               

Whatever Scares You | Writer Director | Back to Back Theatre and SBS & Screen Australia              

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes | Season Director | Back to Back Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, London; Leeds Playhouse, Leeds; ACCA Brighton UK 

Single Channel Video | Co-director | Back to Back Theatre & Rising Melbourne Festival

Anything and Everything | Dramaturg | Platform Arts & Rising Melbourne Festival

Radial Bleach | Co-director | Back to Back Theatre and Bleach Festival Goldcoast

2021               

Paradise Road | Dramaturg | Victorian College of the Arts | Homegrown New Works         

Food Court | Associate Director | Back to Back Theatre | Melbourne Festival   

2020                  

LEAF | Dramaturg | Victorian College of the Arts | Homegrown New Works Program

When the Trees Spoke | Dramaturg | Playwritng Australia | Writer Christopher Harley

2019               

The Democratic Set | Director | Back to Back Theatre | Inbetween Time, Bristol, UK

Road to Victory | Co-Director | Future Echoes | Arts Centre Melbourne

Grimm Tales | Director | Federation University, Ballarat  

Ladies in Black | Director | Federation University, Ballarat 

2018               

Lady Eats Apple | Dramaturg | Back to Back Theatre | The Barbican, London.

FutureProof | Co-Director | Back to Back Theatre | National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow, UK National Theatre of Scotland, BBC Scotland, and Segal Centre, New York

The Democratic Set |Director | Back to Back Theatre | Milton Keynes International Festival, UK

Society | Director | Theatre of Speed and Back to Back Theatre, Geelong  

2017                

Lauffen Springen Werfen Co-Director|Back to Back Theatre | Theatre Thikwa, Berlin

The Democratic Set | Director | Back to Back Theatre | Festival Tweetakt, Stadsshouwburg Utrecht, Netherlands

Lady Eats Apple | Dramaturg | Back to Back Theatre | Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth; Carriageworks, Sydney; Theatre Der Welt, K6 Kampnagel, Hamburg; Theatre an der Wein, Vienna, Vienna Festival; Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, Holland Festival

Agamemnon | Director | Federation University | PO Box Theatre, Federation University, Ballarat 

2016               

Lady Eats Apple | Dramaturg | Back to Back Theatre | Melbourne International Festival

Radial | Co - director | Back to Back Theatre | Official Selection LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2019

GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH | Show Director | Back to Back Theatre | SECS, Sao Paulo, Brazil

PRICE | Concept and Director | Back to Back Theatre

10 short documentary films in which Scott Price interviews artists about provocation

2015               

SUCKER | Director | Back to Back Theatre | Back to Back Theatre, Geelong, Victoria  

The Democratic Set | Director | Back to Back Theatre | Fairfax Festival, Swan Hill, Victoria & Lucas Arts Centre, Ballarat, Victoria

AWARDS AND GRANTS (Selected)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Back to Back Theatre. 2024. 

International Ibsen Award for Body of Work. Norwegian Government. 2022.

Australia Council International Residency - Helsinki International Artist Programme. 2018. 

Anne Bogart and SITI Company USA. Scholarship for SITI Training. 2012.

Australian Postgraduate Award. Postgraduate study. 2009 - 11.

Asialink. Performing Arts Residency Grant. 2007.

Green Room Award. Best Production. Perdita (lead). The Winter’s Tale. Eleventh Hour Theatre. 2006. 

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Burning the Bull. Searle, T. Performance Studies Reader 4th Ed. Routledge. 2024.

Burning the Bull. Searle, T. Performance Research. 2019.

An Imagined Theatre. Searle, T and Teuben, S. Imagined Theatres Online. 2018. ed. Eckersall, Grehan, Gunn. 

On Depth of Field. Dance Massive Critical Writers Forum. dancemassive.com.au 2015.

From Where I Stand. Price, S and Searle T. Australia Council for the Arts. 2014. 

Aesopic Dramaturgy in Community Development and Intercultural Art in Thailand. Aesopic Voices: Re-framing Truth through Concealed Ways of presentation in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Searle,T and Colman,X. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2011.  

Performing Resistance in Burma. Searle,T and Colman,X. TDR|The Drama Review. 53:1. 2009.