Curriculum Vitae
University
tessabremner@crookedmirror.com
![Tessa Bremner MCA
Master of Creative Arts (Wollongong)
Resident Director Co-Opera
Opera, music theatre and theatre director
Playwright and author
Specialist in opera and music theatre performance training
Lecturer in voice & acting
Stagecraft Consultant
Public Speaker
Productions 2006
Don Giovanni Mozart [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
The Portrait Becky Llewellyn [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
Opera Scenes & [Director]
The Telephone Menotti
School of Music ANU
Patience Gilbert & Sullivan [Director]
University Theatre Ensemble –
Charles Sturt University /Riverina Conservatorium of Music
Lectureships 2006
Guest lecturer Instrumental and Opera Stage Craft and Opera Performance
Australian National University School of Music
Lecturer in Voice and Acting
School of Visual and Performing Arts, Charles Sturt University
Productions 2005
Macbeth Shakespeare [Director]
University Theatre Ensemble - Charles Sturt University
An Innocent Sleep [Director]
University Theatre Ensemble - Charles Sturt University
Conspiracy & Intrigue [Director]
School of Music ANU
The Portrait [Director]
(A new opera by Becky Llewellyn)
Co-Opera, South Australia
Love Letters [Actor]
Crooked Mirror Theatre
Woman in Black [Director]
Canberra Repertory
Madam Butterfly [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
Pagliacci [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia (International tour)
Don Giovanni [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
Lectureships 2005
Lecturer in Voice and Acting
School of Visual and Performing Arts, Charles Sturt University
Lecturer in stagecraft
Opera School, School of Music,
Australian National University
Productions 2004
Pagliacci [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
The Crucible [Director]
Free Rain Theatre Company, Canberra
Amadeus [Director]
Free Rain Theatre Company, Canberra
Winner of Canberra Critics Circle Award
for Theatre 2004
Amahl and the Night Visitors [Director]
Riverina Conservatorium of Music
Public Speaking ACT, SA, VIC, NSW
*An Affair with Mr Renoir . Author
A Collection of Short Stories
Published December 2004
By Ginninderra Press
PRODUCTIONS 2003
TOSCA
Co-Opera, South Australia [Director]
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
CARMEN [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
The Marriage of Figaro
Elder Conservatorium of Music,
University of Adelaide
“In The Hands of Children.......” [Actor/Narrator]
Crooked Mirror
Tessa Bremner professional Opera Workshops
State Opera of South Australia
Workshops ACT, QLD, SA, VIC, NSW
Professional public Speaking, presentation & performance workshops ACT, QLD, SA, VIC, NSW
Productions 2002
Tosca [Director]
Marriage of Figaro [Director]
Great Moments of Opera [Director]
Co-Opera, South Australia
Orfeo
Elder Conservatorium of Music
[Director/Choreographer]
image + potential workshops
Professional opera workshops
State Opera of South Australia
Presentation skills, public speaking and performance workshops
NSW, SA, VIC, ACT
Productions 2001
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Director]
The Magic Flute [Director]
Co*Opera (Touring Australia)
Songstruck [Writer/Director]
Elder Conservatorium of Music,
University of Adelaide
Productions 2000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Director]
The Magic Flute [Director]
La Boheme [Director]
Co*Opera (Touring Australia)
South Pacific [Director]
Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide
Mozart Opera Scenes Director/Choreographer]
Flinders Street Opera School, Adelaide
Meditation, The Spirit of Humanity [Director/Speaker] Premiere production [English / Russian]
Double Edged Gift, (The Rights of the Child [Singer / Speaker]
Crooked Mirror Ensemble productions:
PRODUCTIONS 1999
Co*Opera Productions
Touring Australia; all States: [Director]
La Traviata [Director]
The Magic Flute [Director]
Carmen [Director]
The Marriage of Figaro [Director]
Best of Tess, [Director]
Charles Sturt University (UTE)
A Celebration of Tessa Bremner’s choreographic work at Charles Sturt University
Canberra Philharmonic [Director/Choreog]
My Fair Lady
The Cyrenes [Director/
On The Souls of Her Feet
Original musical production, celebrating Women’s stories
Hay Fever [Director]
Deceptions
University Theatre Ensemble (UTE) [Director Experience up to 1998
Director / Resident Producer / Choreographer
The Australian Opera
Victoria State Opera
State Opera of South Australia
Productions
La Traviata La Buona Figliola
Cavalieri Rusticana Rigoletto
I Pagliacci Barber of Seville
Simon Boccanegra Pikovaya Dama Manon Lescault Patience
Magic Flute Faust
The Rake’s Progress Alcina
Lucia di Lamermoor
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Director / Choreographer
Riverina Theatre Company
Canberra Theatre Company
Eureka ! Theatre Company
Canberra Philharmonic
Canberra Repertory Company
The Seymour Group
About Face
Crooked Mirror
University Theatre Ensemble
Doppio Teatro
Multicultural Youth Theatre
Canberra Multi cultural Youth Theayre
South Australian Theatre Company
Tessa Bremner in Association with Canberra Theatre Trust
Adelaide Week in Penang
New Opera
SACAE Adelaide
Australian Dance Theatre (South Australia)
New Opera of South Australia
Australian Opera Studio (Sydney)
New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (Sydney)
Performer (Actor 1990-2000)
Doppio Teatro (Adelaide).
Jigsaw Theatre Company
Eureka! Theatre Company
Crooked Mirror
Writer/Playwright
South Australian Department for the Arts Commission For the world’s Too Full of Weeping
Canberra Multicultural Youth Theatre Come Away
About Face Hot Property
Consultant in Performance, PUBLIC SPEAKING & CONFIDENCE
Tessa Bremner Professional Workshops for Singers (Adelaide).
Flinders University Drama Department. (South Australia)
University of Adelaide Drama Department.
Tessa Bremner Professional Workshops for Actors (Canberra).
Multicultural Youth Theatre (Adelaide).
Canberra Multicultural Youth Theatre. (Canberra)
Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide).
South Australian College of Advanced Education. (South Australia)
ANU Drama Department. (Canberra)
ANU Department of Modern European Languages. (Canberra)
ANU Post Graduate Science Presentation Programme (Canberra)
Canberra Repertory Theatre Company. (Canberra)
Interact...National Drama Workshops. (Canberra)
Questacon National Science and Technology Centre
(ACT & NSW1991-1998).
Parliament House (including presentation consultant for a Federal Treasurer) (Canberra).
Charles Sturt University, School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Crooked Mirror Company (Canberra)
National Storyteller Guild (Victoria)
ACT Storytellers’ Guild (Canberra)
Flinders Street Opera School
Australian School of Refexology
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