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LAURA JACKSON
Nationality: Australian
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Laura Jackson is a writer, actor and singer, who completed her Bachelor of Performance at the University of Wollongong in 2009, and has gone on to complete further studies at UOW, including a Masters in Creative Arts in Creative Writing and a Graduate Diploma of Education. Laura is an emerging playwright and actor, who has written and performed the one woman play Handle It - a feminist examination of Gen Y women in the world of the internet and social media. Handle It has had several successful seasons in Sydney, Wollongong, Adelaide and Canberra including, as well as a fundraiser for the UN Women performing alongside guest speakers Tracey Spicer and Augusta Supple, and comes back to the Sydney Fringe in 2015, and heads to Hobart in December. Handle It has been recommended to be shown in schools because of it's topical themes, and is also adaptable for a senior school drama level study because of it's monologue style format. Laura is also the writer of several other emerging works, and is bringing another brand new play to the Sydney Fringe in 2015, entitled The Culture, a funny, pithy, topical work for two actors, tackling contemporary issues of domestic violence, street harassment, assault and homophobia. Laura has a great passion for theatre and musical theatre, both as a teacher and performer herself having recently founded the Aspiring Musical Theatre Company, for which she also serves as resident Director. This was an initiative created for performers aged between 18 - 35yrs, encouraging the process of working together to develop skills, and collaborating on these to develop showcases and productions. This is further enhanced by her invitation to professionals to run masterclasses in performance and in recent times these guest coaches have included renowned Voice teacher Karen Cummings, and American Composer John Bucchino.
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Culture, The Handle ItCulture, The
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Two friends Katie and Will who is gay. Their struggle in a world that is homophobic and misogynist. Katie always takes precautions when going out to keep herself safe. Will has set up a wall with his acerbic wit and emotional distance.
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Gay full length
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Handle It is a feminist one woman play which was both written and performed by Laura Jackson. The play addresses critical and topical themes and concerns of social media, online privacy, victim blaming and sexual assault, and is made up of seven characters, six of whom have an eight to ten minute monologue. Handle It tells the story of Kelsey Armitage who has compromising pictures put up on Facebook without her permission, which go viral and end up on a pornography site: spiralling out of control. While Kelsey is the protagonist, she is essentially absent throughout the play, and the story is told in these monologues by those who surround around her, the guy who put the pictures up, her sister, a "pro-internet sexologist", a police officer, a lawyer and finally her step sister. The monologues are interspersed with digital media projections, which demonstrate the "once it's out there, it's gone forever", out-of-your-control nature of material online. While the play is intended as a one woman show, there is also potential for each of the characters to be played by a different actor, to be a cast of 6 women and 1 man, or 7 women, as well as potential for the use of the six monologues as stand alone pieces.
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Dramatic, Comedic, Monologues, Feminist 60 min
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