Crew

Anthony Noack - Writer

Anthony is a freelance writer and theatre maker. Over the last decade he has worked in production for a variety of theatre festivals and companies. In 2009 Anthony returned to study Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. He edited the RMIT literary journal Visible Ink and in this same year his novella Eaglemont was published through Ginninderra Press. Anthony has also written for the screen and his short film script Twenty Five Cents was selected for production funding as part of the AFC Raw Nerve program. His plays Brighter Whiter & The Gift premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2011.

www.anthonynoack.com

Avi Wanono - Set designer

After initially studying photography and graphic design, Avi was selected to study scénographie at the EnsAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. At EnsAD, his training was focused on exhibition design, film set design and theatre stage design.

Avi has worked for a number of museums and galleries on various projects in France, most notably in at the Quai Branly Museum and the BNF - French National Library. He has worked on a number of interactive installations, including at 104 Contemporary Art Center and for the Short Film Festival of Clermont Ferrand. He has also worked in the theatre industry and the fashion industry, most notably for Bureau Betak.

As a scenographer, his philosophy is dedicated to bridging the space between the artwork and the audience. The starting point of his reflection is always ‘how to bridge this gap?’ Avi believes his role is of a mediator; a smuggler in this journey of conversation.

Iris-Edwige Gaillard - Director

Iris graduated in 2006 and co-founded the Compagnie de L’Imminence. With her company, Iris developed research for a new form of theatre, questioning the conventional theatrical devices. It led to a work focused on the experience related to live performance. She aims to develop a direct relationship with the audience, exposing the theatrical devices and playing with the actor’s virtuosity, engaging different types of acting techniques and performance styles all within a single show. 

She specialized in contemporary texts with a fragmentary narration (Heiner Müller, R-W Fassbinder, Botho Strauss, Peter Handke…).

In 2006, Iris produced and directed: Der Kuss des Vergessens (Kiss of Oblivion) written by Botho Strauss, for the Avignon Off Festival. She then returned to Avignon in 2007 with as producer/director of Anarchy in Bayern written by Reiner Werner Fassbinder.

After a successful festival the show toured France, being performed over fifty times in different towns. In 2008 and 2009 Iris went to the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris to be trained in Scenography. Also during the last six years Iris worked as a performer in several plays (written by Marguerite Duras, Noelle Renaude and Alejandro Jodorowsky), short films, and television shows in France.

She moved to Melbourne in December 2010 to follow her heart. She has been thrilled by the fantastic diversity of independent theatre on offer. Since then she directed Brighter Whiter written by Anthony Noack for the Comedy Festival in February 2011 as well as the jealous Husband and the fleet-footed Doctor two comedies written by Molière for the Melbourne French Theatre in May 2011. She worked on a collaborative show with Jason Cavanaugh and Matto Lucas for Halloween in October 2011 at The Owl and The Pussycat, Richmond.

irisgaillard.com

Laetitia Bastiani - Camerawoman

Laetitia started her career in show business as an understudy horsewoman when she was 16. She then attended Cours Florent, Performing Art school in Paris. After graduating in 2005 she co-created a theatre company "Croc en Scène" with which she toured France for a year, performing Petra Von Kant's tears by R-W Fassbinder. In 2006 she performed under the direction of Pierre Vial who is part of the famous theatrical French institution La Comédie française.

Back in Paris she got the part of Antigone in Jean Cocteau's version, which she performed for two years in L'Espace Marais, along with two parts in L'Avare by Molière. She performed in Hong Sang Soo's film "Night and Day" selected for the Golden Bear Festival in Berlin in 2008. Feeling the call of the wild Laetitia went to live in Quitò, Ecuador for two years. There she worked for the national Council of Photography assisting many great Ecuadorian film directors. She got fascinated by the work behind the camera and wishing to pursue this new career she moved to New York to work as a production manager in a Media Company. Thrilled to discover Melbourne, Australia, she jumped on the opportunity to be part of Banana Republic for the Fringe Festival in 2012. She's extremely excited to be here.

Mark Schultz - Sound Designer

Dr Mark Schultz began his self-taught forays into audio production and composition in 1999, when he began his now large collection of classic analogue and digital synthesisers.  In 2003, Mark produced soundtrack material for the climbing video No Comment (winner of the Jury Prize at the St Anton Film Festival, Austria) and continues in 2012 to produce soundtrack material in collaboration with Alpsolut Films (http://www.alpsolut.com/), Austria, freelancing to Vaude and Adidas. In 2003, Mark released ambient electronic music under the moniker Shmaltz on Tueftler Records, Austria.  Whilst living in Innsbruck, Austria, Mark worked as an audio technician for the Treibhaus Jazz Bar, produced a monthly radioshow on FreiradFM and played regularly as a DJ.  From 2005 to 2009, Mark lived in Darwin, Australia and collaborated as a producer and dj with sound artist Kris Keogh at the Happy Yess venue. In 2010, Mark made his second visit to Antarctica as a biologist, but was fortunate enough to work as a field assistant to sound artist Dr Philip Samartzis during his ambient field recordings in remote locations around Davis.  For the Banana Republic production, Mark has taken from Phil's and Kris' teachings and prepared soundtrack material by capturing ambient field recordings around the forests and parks of Melbourne.  Mark will be a part of the live performance as he captures and cues audio during the show. In his other life, Mark works as a postdoctoral research fellow in molecular genetics at the University of Melbourne.