GÖRKEM ACAROĞLU
CV
Education
2010 - 2015 Doctor of Philosophy
Deakin University
2009 Master of Creative Media - Interactive Media
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2004 Graduate Diploma - Theatre Direction
Victorian College of the Arts
2003 Playwrites Studio
National Institute of Dramatic Arts
2002 Bachelor of Arts, Honors - Theatre
University of New South Wales
2000 Master of Media Arts - Film and Video
University of Technology, Sydney
1998 Bachelor of Applied Science - Social Ecology
University of Western Sydney
Experience
2018 Program Producer, Fed Square
2018 Director, Birregurra Arts Ballyhoo
2017 Director, Wages of Fear
Director, Omission of the Coleman Family
2016 Director, Milk Bars
Director, That's Not a Daffodil
2015 Director, The 24 Hour Experience: Ballarat
Director, 10Cs
Director, Cyborg No Exit
2014/15 Participatory Arts Producer, Arts Melbourne
2014 Director, The 24 Hour Experience: Melbourne
Director, The Colour White
Director, Hell
2013 Director, It Felt Empty When the Heart Went
2012 Director, Mixed Reality Performance Lab
2010/12 Artistic Director, Melbourne Workers Theatre
2010 Director, Yet to Ascertain the Nature of...
2009-12 Director, Exception
2009 Director, Pandora's Eyes
2008 Director, Lonesome West
Director, The Pain and the Itch
Director, Haneef, The Interrogation
Grants & Awards
2012 - Inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
- Asialink Performing Arts Residency - Mongolia
2011 - Creative Leadership Award, Australia Council
2004 - Young Leaders Award, Australia Council
Skills
Digital Performance direction
Theatre/live and hybrid art
Curating and programming
Producing arts programs
Publications
2014 - Co-editor with Glenn d’Cruz ‘Digital Performance’ Australasian Drama Studies Journal
2012 - ISEA