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Announcing our next four cast members for Dark Arcadia!
We are delighted to be announcing our fabulous cast for Dark Arcadia – continuing with this fabulous bunch of humans! Introducing, in alphabetical order … Otim Arima as “Don Pedro” Otim Arima has been building his acting CV for the past few years with credits in short film, theatre and music video, including playing “Kemo” in Mwangaza Theatre’s Do Black Boys Go To Heaven, “Zane” in John Sheedy’s short film Tarniet and “Narrator” for the short film The Echo, which was an official selection for the 2020 Melbourne International Film Festival, among others. He has also undertaken training at The Melbourne Actors’ Lab, 16th Street and Melbourne Theatre Company. Andrew-Dean…
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Announcing our first four cast members for Dark Arcadia!
We are delighted to begin announcing our fabulous cast for Dark Arcadia – beginning with our superb “Wyrd Sisters” and “Hero”! Introducing, in alphabetical order … Ag Johnson as “Cassandra” Ag Johnson is an Actress and Musician from Melbourne, Australia. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Contemporary Music, she’s had experience working on TV commercials, short films, live musicals and has performed at various music festivals and city council events. Ag is currently undertaking the Advanced Program in Musical Theatre at Apo Arts Academy and in January 2023 she had the privilege to perform her original song, “Beauty Within” at the Sidney Myer Bowl…
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164% FUNDED!!
We are so incredibly humbled, grateful and so, so very thankful to all our amazing donors who gave to our “Dark Arcadia” Australian Cultural Fund campaign, who not only brought us to our stretch goal, but punched through it to bring us to 164% FUNDED with ONE DAY LEFT ON THE CAMPAIGN!! YOU ALL ROCK!! Words truly cannot express how grateful we all are for your generosity. And the global nature of your generosity, with donors from Australia, the UK, NZ and the USA! A huge thank you must also go out to everyone who shared our posts and put up with our AI generated campaign post experiments and our regular…
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Sally McLean interviewed on My88FM Breakfast in Sydney
Hear Dark Arcadia Creator/Director, Sally McLean’s chat with My88FM Breakfast presenter Wayne Tunks from April during the week of Shakespeare’s Birthday, where she talks about our parent series, Shakespeare Republic and hints about what’s happening with Dark Arcadia.
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Dark Arcadia now 51% funded in our crowdfunding campaign in just over 48 hours!!
We opened up our Dark Arcadia campaign dashboard late last night and were gobsmacked to see that we are now 51% FUNDED IN JUST OVER 48 HOURS!!! You people are AMAZING! We’re going to have to name names now, because everyone who has donated is just the best and we are so grateful and want to publicly thank you. So … HUGE THANKS go to: Kim, Harry, Emily, Allan, Michelle, Stephen and the group of anonymous donors who have chosen to keep themselves hidden from public view (but we know who you are and we love you all!!). We are overwhelmed by your support and so grateful to all of you –…
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Dark Arcadia officially announced!
We are so thrilled to be able to confirm that our new Shakespeare series: Dark Arcadia is now in early pre-production! Casting is also about to begin (more on that soon) and we have a final round of crowdfunding via the Australian Cultural Fund officially kicking off today to complete the budget. To find out more about the series, check out our campaign page here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2E9q000000ER9BEAW/dark-arcadia We are so looking forward to bringing you this new twist on Shakespeare in the 21st Century and so grateful to all the organisations and individuals who have made this work possible! And we can’t wait to share all the fabulous cast and crew we have…
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Dark Arcadia creator featured in new Arden Shakespeare collection, published by Bloomsbury Press in the UK
This rather amazing news just in – straight from Dark Arcadia Creator/Director, Sally McLean‘s Instagram account: “There are some unexpected and wonderful surprises and and “pinch me” moments that come out of just going for it and taking a risk. “The Experiment”, also known as Shakespeare Republic, dreamed up many years ago when I graduated drama school in London, realised years later in a moment of inspired madness back home in #Melbourne, made with love, guts, generosity, blood, sweat (and yes, occasional tears!) by so many clever talented creatives who answered my call of “Hey, do you want to do some Shakespeare?”, starting back in 2015, continuing to the present moment – is the…
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Dark Arcadia Is An ACF Boost Funding Recipient!
We have the exciting announcement that we are one of the lucky recipients of the 2020 Australian Cultural Fund BOOST Grant Program! Selected from all art forms across Australia in a highly competitive funding round, we are one of 22 independent artists, small groups and art organisations selected to receive this funding boost from the Australian Government for our new mini web series Dark Arcadia. So, how does this work? We are now running a crowdfunding campaign throughout May via the ACF, with the aim to raise $3,500 in donations. If we are successful in reaching our target, the Australian Federal Government, via Creative Partnerships Australia will match that amount, dollar-for-dollar, in the form of a grant to go towards…
