Slashies: How to build and sustain a creative career with Monica Main and Libby Klysz

Host(s)

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  Monica Main

  Monica is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Broadcasting from WAAPA.She has worked extensively across theatre, film, TV and radio, as an award- winning Actor & Voiceover Artist, Writer, Puppeteer, Director, Producer, Theatre-maker, Film-maker, MC, Corporate Performer, Radio Host and a multi artform Audio Describer for the blind and vision impaired with DADAA Fremantle.She's had 5 writing commissions for the WA Museum and her community work includes residencies in WA schools and WA Prisons. She is the narrator for AudioWalks WA, presenting numerous historical walks around the Perth metro area and she produces and presents a weekly radio show Suburban Farm Yarns on RTRFM. 
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  Libby Klysz

  Libby Klysz is a producer, director, teacher and performer. She has worked for many companies over twenty years, like Perth Festival, The Last Great Hunt, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Barking Gecko Theatre, WAAPA and The Blue Room Theatre. She is a current board member of Chamber of Arts & Culture, and CircuitWest. Libby produces independent projects, recently including JULIA (Steamworks Arts, 2021) The Golem, and The Apparatus (Humphrey Bower, 2020 & 2019), Wonder Woman (Laura Boynes, 2019). She directed Feminah (2019) and is Associate Director on The Tempest (Black Swan, 2021). Libby spearheads Variegated Productions, with award-winning shows such as Frankie’s (2018), and The Man and The Moon (2016); and an original performer with The Big HOO-HAA! Libby teaches in schools and universities, and also creates community engagement programs.