creative resume
While software engineering provides plenty of entertainment at work, I spend my non-working hours moonlighting as a Music Director, Technical Director, Stage Manager, and all-round theatre handyman. Alongside my degrees in science and engineering, I studied a Diploma in Music at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Bassoon.
My previous music direction credits include Spring Awakening (twice), Little Shop of Horrors (twice again!), Sunset Boulevard, The Drowsy Chaperone, In The Heights, Heathers, and the Lyrebird Awards Ceremony. I have worked as a Music Supervisor and Conductor on a number of smaller shows and concerts, as well as spending two years as the Choral Director of the Ormond Choir.
I truly enjoy learning instruments, to the extent that my home is reminiscent of a high school music room. My strengths are bassoon, piano, and saxophone, though I am also proficient on bass, clarinet, oboe, and guitar, and am always trying to expand my skills further.
As a theatre tech, my speciality is in sound design/engineering, complimented by experience in stage management, set construction, and lighting. I have a particular interest in keyboard programming, where sound design and music direction intersect.
Listed below is a selection of my creative and theatrical experience.
accreditation
MD Professional Development Workshop
ABODA
Diploma in Music (Practical)
The University of Melbourne
Studied under tuition of Hugh Ponnuthurai
A.Mus.A. (Bassoon)
AMEB
music direction
Music Director
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, OSMaD
Victorian Premiere, December 2023
Band Director/Assistant Music Director
In The Heights, OCPAC
Conductor/Keys 1
Awarded: Best Music Direction, Music Theatre Guild of Victoria
Awarded: Best Music Direction, Lyrebird Awards
Music Director
Richard Beveridge Memorial Concert, OSMaD
Music Director
All Together Now!, OSMaD
Music Director
Little Shop of Horrors, RMIT
Music Director
Lyrebird Awards Ceremony, OSMaD
Music Director
Spring Awakening, RMIT
Music Supervisor/Conductor
The Sitzprobe, UMMTA
Music Director
The Drowsy Chaperone, UMMTA
Awarded: Most Outstanding Music Director/Band, UHT Awards
Assistant Music Director
Heathers, UMMTA
Conductor/Orchestrator
The Sitzprobe, UMMTA
Music Director
Little Shop of Horrors, ICAC
Music Director
Sunset Boulevard, Ormond College
Music Director
Spring Awakening, Ormond College
Conductor
Scotch College Orchestra
technical
Sound Designer
World of Musicals for Kids, Windmill Theatre Company
Stage Manager
The Scarlet Pimpernel, OSMaD
Sound Designer
Urinetown (dir. Mark Taylor), Soundworks Productions
Sound Designer
Matilda, Mount Lilydale Mercy College
Stage Manager
Jersey Boys, Windmill Theatre Company
Sound Designer
We Will Rock You, Slams MTC
Stage Manager
Miss Saigon, OSMaD
Awarded: Best Production (Musical), Lyrebird Awards
Sound Designer
Dogfight, Lightbox Productions
Sound Design Mentor
Parade, UMMTA
Sound Designer
Spring Awakening, RMIT
Assistant Stage Manager
Les Misérables, OSMaD
Awarded: Best Production (Musical), Lyrebird Awards
Technical Director
The Witches of Eastwick, UMMTA
Theatre Technician
Union House Theatre
Sound design specialisation
Set Construction Manager
Heathers, UMMTA
Sound Designer
The Coven, Ringtail Theatre
Technical Director
10 Out Of 12, Ormond College
Technical Director
Assassins, Ormond College
Set Construction
Joseph K, Ormond College
AV Coordinator
Ormond College
Technical Director
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ormond College
Head of Lighting and Sound
Ormond College
Stage Manager
Metamorphoses, Ormond College
Technical Director
After Liverpool, Ormond College
instrumental
Keys/Reeds Dep
Various
Bassoon
West Side Story, Scotch College
Keys
13, Soundworks Productions
Keys, Bass, Guitar, Reeds
Little Shop of Horrors, RMIT
Keys
Spring Awakening, RMIT
Bassoon
Into the Woods, ICAC
Reeds (Oboe, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Bari Sax)
Heathers, UMMTA
Reeds (Bassoon, Clarinet, Alto Sax)
Assassins, Ormond College
Reeds (Bassoon, Clarinet, Alto Sax)
Company, ICAC
Alto Sax
Ormond Big Band
(Principal) Bassoon
The University of Melbourne Orchestra
Bassoon
Anything Goes, ICAC
Bassoon
Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra
Bassoon
Sound of Music, Scotch College
Bassoon
Australian Ballet Conservatoire Orchestra
Bassoon
West Side Story, Scotch College
Bassoon
Into the Woods, Scotch College
choral
Choral Director
Ormond Choir
Vocalist
Concordis Chamber Choir
Vocalist
The Cardinals
Vocalist
Scotch College Chamber Choir
other
Secretary
OSMaD
Producer
Ormond Ball
Director
Ormond Shorts, Ormond College
Producer
Ormond Shorts, Ormond College
Director
Ormond Shorts, Ormond College
Cast (Grand Mikado)
The Mikado, Scotch College