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Penny Harpham

(Australia)

Penny Harpham is an actor, director and performance artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked across Australia, South Korea, Germany and the UK on projects that range from dance-theatre, text-based plays, durational performance artworks, film and television, sound installations and site-specific participatory live artworks. Her interest in media, story, Australia’s arts ecology, audience engagement and theatrical form have led her to study at the University of Queensland (Journalism/ Drama), University of Melbourne (Post Grad in Arts and Cultural Management) and most recently the Victorian College of the Arts (Post Grad in Directing). She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of She Said Theatre, an ensemble of artists working out of Melbourne to create new performances ensuring women, Indigenous Australians, migrant communities and a plethora of other ‘other’ voices can have their ideas explored and histories re-imagined.