Bria McCarthy
Visual Arts/ Installation:
Mr Squiggle And Friends (Workshop and Shadow House, 2025, National Museum of Australia)
Hive Festival (Workshop and Shadow House, 2025, Art Gallery of NSW)
‘Shadow House’ (Textile and performance installation, 2024 Penrith Real Festival)
‘The Dreaming Holds Us‘ (Writer, Director, Puppeteer, 2024 Bathurst Regional Gallery)
Performance:
Dragon Hearts – Creator, performer, co-producer, (Sydney Fringe 2024, Made in Sydney Hub)
The Grasshoppers Star Song– Writer, director, puppeteer (2024, Parramatta North Precinct)
Dragon Hearts– Writer, director, puppeteer (2023, Sydney Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival)
Tales From Liminas – Writer and director, (In Development, ACE)
Murriyang: Seven Sisters Rising – Writer and director (2022, short film)
Virus: A Fugue – Cast, (2020, Estonian Cultural Exchange)
P’s Get Degrees – Assistant Director (2020, film)
Buzz Sonnet – Writer and Director (2020, Create or Die Marrickville)
A Game For Flies – Writer and Director, (2019, PYT Fairfield)
Originate: Mouth of the River – Assistant Director (2018, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Originate: How to Make a Happy Meal – Ensemble/ deviser (2017, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Originate: The Bacchae – Promotion assistant (2015, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre )
Publication:
Interactive Shadow Puppet Books (Ongiong, Self published and stocked on Etsy as well as local bookshops)
Seven Sisters Dancing In the Sky (2024, Outloud, Interactive Shadow Puppet Zine)
Discoveries in the Cosmic Underground (2023, Riverstone Journal)
‘Prologue: The Dawn of the Season (2022, ‘Ghost Cities’ anthology of Western Sydney writers)
Finding Liminas: The Sudden Tree (novel series in development, nominated for 2022 Text Prize)
‘Sand Dreams’ – (2022, Offsite.com)
3 Short stories in ‘Patient Zero’ (2021, Chapbook by The Writing Zone)
Awards:
Best Emerging Artist for ‘Dragon Hearts’- Sydney Fringe Festival 2023
Finding Liminas: The Sudden Tree (unpublished manuscript) – Text Prize, shortlisted
Teaching:
Studio Q – Teaching artist, drama (2019 – current, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Cranbrook Junior School – Teaching artist, speech and Drama (2019 – 2021)
Shopfront Arts Co Op – Substitute teacher, drama (2019)
Studio Q – Assistant teaching artist, drama (2019 – 2021, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Artistic Training and Residencies:
Accessible Arts Next Level Mentorship (2024, Accessible Arts and Bangarra Dance Theatre)
Aboriginal Artist in Residence (2023, ACE, ‘Tales From Liminas’)
The Writing Zone (2022, WSU Writing and Society Research Centre)
PYT Ensemble (2019, Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Fairfield)
Playwave Creative (2018 – Present, Shopfront Arts Co-op)
ATYP National Studio (2018, Bundanon Trust)
Propel writing initiative (2016, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Originate (2015, 2017, 2018, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Q Emerging Artists Mentorship (2014, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Studio Q (2005 – 2016, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)
Qualifications:
- UNSW Bachelor of arts: Theatre and Performance, Environmental Humanities
- Certificate 4 massage therapy
- Provision 2 drivers license
- Working with Children Check
