Deborah Leiser-Moore

Deborah Leiser-Moore
www.deborahleisermoore.com

Deborah Leiser-Moore has been working in physical contemporary theatre since 1989. Her devised solo and collaborative works include Cordelia, Mein Kind, 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 and The Memory Room, Aqua Azzura and Possessed/Dispossessed (with Entr'acte Theatre).

She has toured nationally and internationally. Highlights include the Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide International Festivals, Theater J (Washington DC), Marsh Theatre (San Francisco),Toga Festival, Japan, Magdalena Aotearoa Festival in New Zealand, Theater J (Washington DC), Sydney’s Carnivale Festival, Performance Space and Belvoir St. Theatre, Searchlight Festival, Melbourne’s La Mama and Bekkett Theatres, The International Women’s Playwrights Festival in Athens, Greece, and an Australia Council residency in Israel to research Israeli theatre.

Deborah has studied in Japan with Tadashi Suzuki, trained in the work of Ettiene Decroux, taught in many universities (is presently a regular lecturer at La Trobe University), 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. In 2004 Deborah was invited to be part of Odin theatre’s 40th Anniversary symposium and festival in Aarhus, Denmark; 2007 she was invited to present her work, as a guest of the Australian Embassy, at the International Congress of Jewish Theatre in Vienna; and she was also the only Australian guest at IsraDrama, hosted by the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv

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. In 2008, Deborah was invited to be a solo artist in residence at Victoria University and in 2010 is a supervisor/mentor for the second year residency artists. Deborah is now embarking on her PHD journey at La Trobe University Melbourne and has been awarded an APA scholarship.

In 2006, Deborah established Tashmadada whose aim is bring together arts practitioners, nurture and develop national and international collaborations, make edgy and challenging performance works and to provide a forum for discussion about the arts.

Since its establishment, Tashmadada has produced a number of events, collaborations and performances including works with international artists such as Israeli playwright Motti Lerner; Younes Bachir (actor and collaborator with legendary Spanish company La Furas dels Baus); Washington DC based Ari Roth with Tom Keneally; New York City physical performance company Witness Relocation; and in 2009/2010 Tashmadada has produced, with fortyfivedownstairs, the Searchlight Festival – a festival of independent performance, for which Deborah has been the Artistic Director. (More information on www.tashmadada.com).