Black Swan State Theatre Company

We announced late last year that, together with Yule Brook College in Maddington, we had been granted $30,000 from the AIR Grants Program. Yule Brook College approached Black Swan to request our involvement in a new project. The school does not currently run a drama program and students have been requesting one for many years. So together we applied for the funding, received it and started making plans for the project to start in May 2013. You can check out the first blog post for more information here. 

Our Artistic Director Kate Cherry continues her travels in the US, currently soaking up the arts and culture in New York City. She is writing a few blog posts about her travels, what she sees, who she meets with and more - a journal of sorts to share with you:

Black Swan kicked off its brand new Student Ambassador program in March with nearly 30 students from Shenton College attending an exclusive event hosted by high school student ambassadors Sarah Dyce and Harry McGrath.

Our Artistic Director Kate Cherry continues her travels in the US, currently soaking up the arts and culture in New York City. She is writing a few blog posts about her travels, what she sees, who she meets with and more - a journal of sorts to share with you:

Our Artistic Director Kate Cherry continues her travels in the US, currently in California soaking up the arts and culture with her husband and son. She is writing a few blog posts about her travels, what she sees, who she meets with and more - a journal of sorts to share with you. Here is a moving account of what theatre can mean in real life:

Our Artistic Director Kate Cherry continues her travels in the US, currently in Los Angeles soaking up the arts and culture with her husband and son. She is writing a few blog posts about her travels, what she sees, who she meets with and more - a journal of sorts to share with you:

Our Artistic Director Kate Cherry is travelling around the United States, soaking up the arts and culture there with her husband and son. She is writing a few blog posts about her travels, what she sees, who she meets with and more. Here is Kate's first post:

Black Swan's Artistic Director Kate Cherry recently took a break from her theatre directing duties here in Perth for a little change of pace - directing an opera in New Zealand!

Director Adam Mitchell is tackling the great American drama Death of a Salesman next month at the State Theatre Centre of WA. He took a few minutes out of the rehearsal room to answer our questions:

Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest has worked on several Black Swan productions, after starting out in our HotBed Ensemble program in 2009. He has progressed to designing our mainstage productions and is a Black Swan Resident Artist in 2013. And this year, for the first time, he will add Set Designer to his list of achievements. For Death of a Salesman, Trent will be designing the lighting and set, a combination that will no doubt create an arresting performance space. We asked Trent to explain what this new position has been like for him: