Workshop Facilitator - Maisie Crosdale

Graduating from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) with Distinction, Maisie Crosdale is an emerging Independent Theatre-Maker, Producer and Performer. Maisie has a background in classical ballet and contemporary dance and is now reconnecting how movement and theatre can work collaboratively —namely through Physical Theatre and Visual Theatre. Maisie is currently training with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company, working as a facilitator with Zen Zen Zo's Teaching Team and in 2022 completed the company’s internationally renowned Creative Internship Programme. In 2022, Maisie produced and performed a new work in Brisbane and Moreton Bay’s Anywhere Festival, titled A Matter of Material – a non-verbal Puppetry and Object Theatre work focusing on sustainability and environmental conservation, which received the 2022 Queensland Communify Award. Maisie also worked with Dead Puppet Society in their 2022 Academy, Lab Programme - working with BLAT Productions as Movement Director and Puppeteer to curate a work titled Ta-Da!, which debuted at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Maisie has also explored the world of academic research, working across two projects with QUT and Dr David Megarrity as a Research Assistant. Firstly on a project titled Sideshow where she researched the importance of authentic, young people's voices in playwriting and research, through a series of interviews with Empire Theatre Youth Arts in Dalby. Secondly, with David Megarrity’s Bear With Me by Tyrone and Lesley. A project at Metro Arts, where Maisie interviewed children, aged 3-8, and their beloved teddy bears - empowering children to be experts of their own imagination’s and articulate their identities through the form of plush toys.

Maisie’s recent credits include: 

2022 Rebirth as Performer and Devisor (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Dir. Gina Tay Limpus), Ta- Da! As Movement Director and Puppeteer (BLAT Productions & Dead Puppet’s Society, Dir. Victoria Barnes), Romeo & Juliet Queensland School Tour as Juliet (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, School Tour, Dir. Drew Der Kinderen), Club Extimacy as Swing Performer (The Black Box Collective & Backdock Arts, Dir. Chelsea August), Global Eco-Scenography Design Project as Concept Designer (Global Network Learning, Climate Change Theatre Action with Griffith University and York University), A Matter of Material as Producer and Puppeteer (Brisbane and Moreton Bay Anywhere Festival 2022 & Potentia Festival, QUT, 2021)

2021 Mr. Burns, a post-electric play & Gloria as Student Producer (QUT), Icarus as Puppeteer (Milne Productions & Anywhere Festival) and A Bed of Roses as Actor (Arbour Theatre Company & Anywhere Festival)