DRAMA WORKSHOPS
Backbone offers a variety of extracurricular drama workshops for Young Artists Aged 8-18. Held at our venue in Seven Hills, our term-based workshops offer a creative community, skills-building, and Personalized coaching from our team of teaching artists.
The Backbone Drama programs are divided into Primary (Ages 8-11) and Secondary (Ages 12 - 18) classes. Browse the workshop programs below for term dates, content outlines, and registration information.
YOUTH DRAMA TROUPE
Monday After School Workshops focused on acting and performance skills, readying young performers for stage and screen. Working with contemporary and traditional texts, students will develop acting and script-work skills.
For those looking for acting skills, script-work and performance preparation.
YOUNG CREATOR WORKSHOPS
Saturday Workshops that offer an energetic, curious, and supportive environment for young people to nurture and develop their imagination, creativity, and collaboration skills.
For those looking for creative experimentation, collaboration and playful imaginaton.
IN - SCHOOLS
Looking for something closer to home? We can come to you!
Our school programs can be tailored to your needs. Get in touch if you would like us to create a Backbone experience at your school!
You can reach Sean via email on Sean@backbone.org.au
MEET THE TEAM
FACILITATOR MARTELLE SIMON-GREEN
Martelle Simon-Green is a Meanjin-based theatre maker, who works primarily as a performer and director. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama & Literature) , she has gone on to create and perform work both locally and internationally. In 2022, Martelle was an Artist in Residence at Backbone, writing and directing a theatrical work titled Pierrot for Backbone Festival and Fringe Brisbane. Martelle has been a performer for physical theatre ensemble NDRNCE, completing a residency at Metro Arts in 2021 for their work Tangerine Hour. In 2018, Martelle and her collaborators developed the Matilda Award Winning piece of immersive theatre La Silhouette (winner: Best Independent Production 2019 Matilda Awards, Nominated: Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work). This work was not only presented in Australia (Backbone Festival 2018 and Brisbane Powerhouse Melt Festival 2019), La Silhouette was also presented in the UK at the Homegrown Festival 2019. More recently she has been a director and dramaturg for Dominoes and Rum (dir. Prince Brown) during its 2022 season. Martelle began as a teaching artist with Backbone Youth Arts Young Makers Program in 2021 and is developing a Youth Arts and education portfolio. Currently, Martelle is the Associate Producer and Lead Facilitator for Backbone Youth Arts.
Martelle’s creative credits include (as creator and performer unless otherwise stated): Obstacle (as Co-Director, Backbone Festival 2023), Bloom Girl (As Assistant Director, dir. Elise Lamb, Thomas Dixon Centre 2023), Pierrot (Director & Writer, Backbone Festival & Fringe Brisbane 2022) The Wilted Rose (As 2nd AD, Short Film, Dir. Elise Lamb, 2022), Dominoes and Rum (as Assistant Director, Dir. Prince Brown, 2021-22), An Intimate Evening with The Architects of Sound and Friends (as Producer, Metro Arts 2021), Tangerine Hour (Metro Arts 2021, dir. Gina Tay Limpus), La Silhouette (MELT Festival 2019, Battersea Arts Centre UK 2019, Backbone Festival 2018), STONEWALL (Metro Arts 2018), There’s No Sex ‘til the Third Act (as Director, Anywhere Festival 2018, QUT Showcase 2016), Hot Cult (Anywhere Festival 2017), Yowies! (Visual Bulk TAS 2017), AWFUL/BIG ADVENTURE (Anywhere Festival 2016, Winner of Anywhere Festival Award), 16 Days on a Sterile Hospital Floor (FAST 2016), The Moon Men (Anywhere Festival 2016, FAST 2015) and naïve. (as Writer and Director; QUT Create X 2016, Freshblood Festival 2016).