Deborah Leiser-Moore

Tashmadada

33 Ebden St.
Brighton, Vic 3186 Australia
Phone: 61 3 9528 2192
Email: deborahlm4@bigpond.com
www.tashmadada.com

Deborah Leiser-Moore has been working in physical contemporary theatre since 1989. Her devised solo and collaborative works include The Memory Room, Aqua Azzura and Possessed/Dispossessed (Entr'acte Theatre), a room with no air, HUNGRY, The Cool Room (nominated for a Green Room Award), HazChem!, The Girl Who Wanted to be God (nominated for the Queensland and Victorian Premiers' Awards), A Thousand Doors A Thousand Windows, The Execution of Toto Nakamura (Arts Centre Full Tilt) and Wasted Underground. She has toured nationally and internationally. Highlights include the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide International Festivals, Toga Festival, Japan, Magdalena Aotearoa Festival in Wellington NZ, Sydney’s Carnivale Festival, Performance Space and Belvoir St. Theatre, Melbourne’s La Mama and Bekkett Theatres, The International Women’s Playwrights Festival in Athens, Greece, and a residency to research theatre in Israel.

Deborah has studied in Japan with Tadashi Suzuki, trained in the work of Ettiene Decroux, taught in many universities, presented her work at many conferences and has been the recipient of a number of grants. In June 2004, a compilation video of her work (entitled Memory, Place, Reconciliation and the Body) was presented at the University of Bamberg, Germany, as part of the CDE conference.

Deborah completed a Masters in Performance at Victoria University with Here and There – Then and Now, a video/installation/performance work, which was remounted at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at Canberra’s ANU. She is presently an artist in residence at Victoria University.

Photo: Deborah Leiser-Moore in Cordelia, Mein Kind

Currently In Progress

Cordelia, Mein Kind
(2008 - in development as part of artist residency at Victoria University; December 2008 Theatre J, Washington DC Incubator program; February 2009 Searchlight Festival at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Australia)

Tashmadada
is a contemporary performance company committed to bringing together arts practitioners, as well as providing a forum for discussion about the arts.

Committed to creating challenging new performance works as well as working with existing texts in an original and innovative manner, Tashmadada encourages the collaboration between artists from different artforms - theatre practitioners, visual artists, writers and composers etc. It encourages and nurtures collaborations between these artists both on a national and an international level. The aim is to create ongoing dialogue and working relationships between Australian and international artists.