Tamara Saulwick

“Saulwick’s Pin Drop is a tour de force of fear”.
Stephen Rus­sell, Time Out Melbourne

Tamara works as an inde­pen­dent performance-maker, actor, and direc­tor. Tamara’s recent works bring real voices and sto­ries into the multiply-mediatised envi­ron­ment of hybrid per­for­mance. Doc­u­men­tary frag­ments are sewn into live per­for­mance cre­at­ing an uncanny inter­play between the past and present. From the spaces between pre­re­corded sto­ries and live per­for­mance, between what is heard and what is seen, between what is real and what is not, the work emerges. Tamara’s diverse train­ing and expe­ri­ence rang­ing from indoor the­atre and out­door per­for­mance, to dance, film and video, informs her cur­rent hybrid practice.

In 2010 Tamara’s solo work Pin Drop won the Out­stand­ing Pro­duc­tion Green Room Award (The­atre –Alter­na­tive and Hybrid Per­for­mance), and received nom­i­na­tions in three other cat­e­gories includ­ing Mise-en-scene, Com­po­si­tion and Sound Design, and Pro­duc­tion Design. In 2011 Pin Drop was pre­sented in the Malt­house Theatre’s Beck­ett The­atre as part of their Sea­son 2 pro­gram. Pin Drop will tour nation­ally in 2012 with Mobile States. Tamara’s other works include map fold­ing for begin­ners (2001), Imprint (2005), and her site-specific work Sed­don Archives: part audio walk, part per­for­mance, part instal­la­tion, com­mis­sioned by the Big West Fes­ti­val 2011.

Tamara’s work has received funding/support from Arts Vic­to­ria, Aus­tralia Coun­cil, City of Mel­bourne, The Myer Foun­da­tion, and City of Maribyrnong. She was awarded a Jeanne Pratt Schol­ar­ship, and was sup­ported by the Aus­tralia Coun­cil The­atre Board to under­take pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with Dah Teater (Bel­grade) and Siti Com­pany (New York). Tamara has worked for many years as a collaborator/performer with numer­ous inde­pen­dent artists and com­pa­nies and has toured with work through­out Aus­tralia as well as Ger­many, Hol­land, France, Aus­tria, Slove­nia, Colom­bia, New Cale­do­nia and Singapore.