Michelle St Anne is embarking on an exciting new chapter with an artist residency dedicated to the research and development of her forthcoming performance at The Lock-Up, Newcastle. This residency will provide her with a unique opportunity to deepen her exploration of site-responsive performance and further innovate her immersive theatrical language.

Michelle St Anne is a site-responsive artist whose immersive and intimate performances create unique audience experiences. Michelle’s work is deeply symbolic, responding to site-specific architectures, audience movement, and embodied participation through lighting, smell, sound, and temperature—shifting the way audiences perceive critical issues of our time. This produces work that leaves a profound impact on audiences long after the performance has finished. Michelle’s practice interrogates collaboration and devising to re-write bodily and societal scripts. Her latest collaborators include Microfiche, Julie Vulcan, Will Hansen and academics such as David Roesner (LMU – Munich) and Megan Mackenzie (SFU – Canada). More recently with Janet Laurence (Requiem Sydney Festival 2021), Ensemble Offspring (Sydney Festival (2020 & 2021) and a new video series with Ensemble Offspring and Hospital Hill.

Outside of her artistic practice Michelle lives in Sydney (Gadigal) and has a long-term research career exploring environmental issues and the link between social forms of violence.

Michelle is an Honorary Associate of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Conservatorium of Music, and member of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney. She is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, Actors’ Centre Australia, and the Victorian College of the Arts.