Arts industry Get Together in Adelaide

Host(s)

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  Julie Crabtree

  As an experienced psychologist, Julie has worked extensively with creative people. Also through her doctoral research into creativity and mental health, she is at the forefront of our understanding of how to be both healthy and creative. Her work encompasses both private practice and consultancy. In her practice, she regularly sees creative artists and their partners who are experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship and related issues. From this experience, she has developed the successful Building Mental Resilience group program for Creative Artists. Through Zebra consultancy, she trains, advises and mentors creative organisations and organisations that want to attract the creative, on how to retain and foster a healthy creative environment.
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  Jamila Main

  Since graduating from Acting at Adelaide College of the Arts (2018), Jamila has become a prolific and respected actor and playwright working across Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne. Jamila has starred in works across stage and screen, including Butterfly Kicks (RUMPUS 2021), the acclaimed Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence (Adelaide Festival, 2020), and is a regular at Vitalstatistix (How Long Can This Last?; Set Piece). An advocate for disabled inclusion, Jamila was commissioned for the ground-breaking article ‘On the Precipice: Theatre for the Isolated Audience’ (ArtsHub, 2020). Jamila is currently a Carclew Fellow and Artist-in-Residence, Co-Chair of the Equity Diversity Committee, an Advisor on the National Advisory Panel for Australian Plays Transform, a teaching artist with True Ability, a disability consultant, and the Access Coordinator at RUMPUS.
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  Kate Croser

  Kate Croser is the Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Film Corporation. Formerly an award-winning film and television producer, Kate's work has been nominated for and won Australian Academy Awards and screened at the world’s most prestigious international film festivals. Kate has established successful independent production and distribution companies including Hedone Productions, nominated for Australian Screen Business of the Year at the 2015 Screen Producers Australia awards. Kate is a member of the board of the South Australian Film Corporation and previously served for five years as a Councillor for Screen Producers Australia, the peak industry body for independent screen production in Australia.
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  Rachel Burke

  Rachel graduated from Flinders University Drama Centre with First Class Honours and a University Medal in a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) in 2015. Since graduating Rachel has performed in Bluey’s Big Play (Windmill/HVK), Macbeth, A Doll’s House, In the Club, Sense and Sensibility (STCSA Ensemble), Jasper Jones and Decameron 2.0 (STCSA), Angelique (isthisyours?), Cranky Bear, The Lighthouse (Patch), Limit, Red Sky Morning (STCSA Umbrella), Tartuffe (STCSA/Brink), The Wolves (RUMPUS), Speak Out (ActNow), Foolz (Flinders University), My Beautiful Radio Station (Expressway Arts) and This Storm (The Unrest Cure). She was an Intimacy Consultant on Requiem (Adelaide Festival) and was assistant director on As One (Tiny Bricks) and Love and Information (Flinders Drama Centre).
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  Shabana Azeez

  Shabana Azeez is an actor whose credits include TV guest roles in ABC’s The Letdown and Why Are You Like This?, and SBS’s The Hunting. She co-won Best Female Actor at Tropfest in 2019 and has been nominated for Best Performance at Stellar Film Festival (2020), the South Australian Screen Awards (2019, 2020), and WIFT V-FEST (2021). She made her theatre debut in RUMPUS’s production of The Wolves in 2019 and has since worked with South Australian theatre companies including State Theatre Company South Australia and ActNow Theatre. Upcoming projects include lead roles in Network 9’s Metrosexual and Fax Machine Films’ new feature film Birdeater. Passionate about telling stories that push the envelope, Shabana has worked with a number of female directors, queer creatives, and culturally diverse teams of storytellers.
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  Bettina Hamilton

  Bettina Hamilton has worked as a Production Manager, Coordinator and Accountant in SA for the last fifteen years and most notably was the first production manager back in production in Adelaide post COVID with ABC and Closer Productions' series "Aftertaste", currently available to watch on iView. Bettina was also the production manager of upcoming feature film "Gold" (Stan) starring Zac Efron,  kid's factual series "Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?" (ABC) and the award winning teenage drama "The Hunting" (SBS).  A strong believer in cast and crew safety and wellbeing, Bettina has an interest in exploring alternative production methodologies to enhance screen production work life balance.