The Actor, Director and Producer - In Conversation with Joanna Werner, Emma Freeman and Nicole Nabout

Details

  • 3 July 2024
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Applications Open 14 June 2024 10:00 am
Applications Close 3 July 2024 10:00 am
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Synopsis

An opportunity to hear from to producer Joanna Werner, (The Newsreader, Secret City) and director Emma Freeman (The Newsreader, Glitch, Stateless) when they join Equity member Nicole Nabout (The Clearing, Return to Paradise) to discuss what goes on behind the scenes of a screen production before actors are cast, what is involved in the producing and directing side of things on a day to day basis, how they work with actors, the best ways to navigate the actor/producer and actor/director relationships, self taping, zoom auditions, rehearsing, protocols on set and much more. There will be plenty of time for audience questions. Please note: This is event is at 12pm AEST (Sydney/Melbourne time) and 2pm NZ time.

Host(s)

  • Joanna Werner

    Joanna Werner is the Company Director, Creative and Executive Producer of the Melbourne based production company Werner Film Productions, which she established in 2008 and was recently named the Production Business of the Year at the Screen Producers of Australia awards. Joanna’s work has been defined by consistent acclaim, with multiple AACTA awards and Logies and three Emmy nominations. Joanna has amassed production credits on an array of internationally acclaimed work – most recently on AACTA and Logie winning series The Newsreader for the ABC and Netflix global top 10 hits Surviving Summer and Clickbait. Other credits include Riot for the ABC, Secret City for Foxtel, Crazy Fun Park for the ABC, Emmy- nominated Ready For this, as well as the two-time Emmy-nominated Dance Academy, which ran for three seasons and spanned a Feature Film version – Dance Academy The Movie. Joanna recently completed a six-year term on the Board of Screen Australia and served as the Chair of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Task Force for six years.

  • Nicole Nabout

    Nicole is currently in rehearsals for The Australian Shakespeare 2025 production of Macbeth playing Lady Macbeth. Her recent TV credits include The Clearing (Disney+) and Return to Paradise (ABC and BBC). She performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing for the ASC 2023/2024 in Melbourne and Sydney. Nicole was in the Australian premier of Selling Kabul at Red Stitch in 2023 and Because the Night at The Malthouse. Career highlights include playing Evie Mansour in the final season of Jack Irish, Nada in three seasons of The Librarians and Kate in Rob Connolly's film Three Dollars with David Wenham. Other film and TV credits include Angel of Mine; Newton’s Law; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Nowhere Boys; The Time of our Lives; Offspring; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; Very Small Business; Blue Heelers and Last Man Standing. Theatre credits include Oil and Wakey Wakey, Red Stich; A Good Muslim Boy, Malthouse/QTC; Secret Bridesmaid’s Business, Playbox and Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Royal Shakespeare Company. She studied with Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

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