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Theatre Works, 2024.
Darkly funny and deeply moving, You’re Being Dramatic is a devastating and beautiful new play from emerging writer/director Zadie Kennedy Mccracken, exploring intimacy, queer identity, patriarchy, and the agony of unfulfilled desire.
writer/director: zadie kennedy mccracken
producer: the maybe pile & theatre works
stage manager: piper knight
cast: megan mitchell & jess sofarnos
dramaturg: ruby rees
set designer: ella campbell
lighting designer: oliver ross
sound designer: ben andrews
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE EMMALa Mama Theatre, 2023.
Everyone Wants to be Emma explores the searing impossibilities of womanhood and identity, tracking six versions of the same young woman as they compete at a beauty pageant. Energetic, playful, and brutally honest, Everyone Wants to be Emma is a new play from Zadie Kennedy Mccracken and Ella Crowley that delves deep into the wild world of one woman’s search for self.
director: zadie kennedy mccracken
writers: zadie kennedy mccracken & ella crowley
producer: chiara henger
stage manager: cassidy cox
movement director: tallulah mckenzie
cast: ella crowley, bridie kelly, bridie noonan, shay niranjan, ally winslow & ciline ajobong
lighting designer: oliver ross
sound designer: seb bartouille-thompson
movement director: tallulah mckenzie
BleachedWit Incorporated, 2023.
The world is in a state of climate collapse. Countries are sinking, burning, closing their borders, and six Australian tourists travel the world, seeing all that they can before it is gone. Bleached follows the journey of these ‘Final Flyers’, these ‘Disaster Tourists’, these ‘Lockdown Leapers’, as their relationships blossom, fall apart and fracture.
director: ruby rees
writer: laura collins
producer: wit incorporated
stage manager, production manager & first director: zadie kennedy mccracken
technical stage manager: jarman oakley
cast: madeleine magee-carr, megan mitchell, anthony pontonio, sass pinci, eva rees, lansy feng
set designer: moya lucy
lighting designer: oliver ross
sound designer: ethan hunter
RULES OF LOVEUnion House Theatre, 2022.
A young woman on the edge searches through party trash for her keys. A playwright struggles to control the narrative. A greedy bisexual flirts badly with her ex-girlfriend and newfound crush. An alcoholic clings to the last of her strobe-lit memories. This is Kate, as she descends.
Zadie Kennedy Mccracken’s award-winning Rules of Love, first premiered at Mudfest online, comes to the stage for the first time.
writer/director: zadie kennedy mccracken
assistant director: ella crowley
producer: isolde kieni-judd & union house theatre
designers: finn mchenry & ane nyhus
marketing: liz dokukina & olivia ryan
cast: bridie noonan, an dang & arin patel
