Parties & Social Events

Cybec Electric: Creative Speed Dating (Strictly Professional)

A networking event to find your people and get to know your theatre community

FREE EVENT
Sessions & Tickets
The arm and hand of a writer making notes on a script placed on a music stand

  • Hosted by: Mark Wilson

Are you a writer looking for a director? A producer looking for a stage manager? A lighting artist in search of a sound collaborator? A curator looking for devisors? A playwright in search of a dramaturg?

Whatever your role, and however you make theatre, CREATIVE SPEED DATING is the place to make new professional connections.

Hosted by Mark Wilson (Fringe regular and Melbourne Theatre Company Associate Artist), the event will be a relaxed, fun and easy way to meet likeminded theatre creatives.

Featuring a mix of structured activities and unstructured time to chat and swap details, CREATIVE SPEED DATING is ideal for anyone who's on the lookout for new collaborators, curious about others' practice, or looking to build a new theatre team.

Who knows, it might be the beginning of a beautiful creative partnership!

Please note: This is event is about theatre-makers finding other theatre-makers with a view to making theatre together. The reference to "speed dating" is about the format, not the intention of meeting people to date.
Please note: If Melbourne Fringe's ticket allocation is exhausted, please try visiting the venue website.

Made possible by the support of the late Dr Roger Riordan and the Cybec Foundation

MTC is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the State Government of Victoria through Creative Australia.

MTC is a department of the University of Melbourne.

mtc.com.au

  • Duration: 90 minutes

  • Age suitability: G

  • Event warnings: High Level Of Audience Participation.

Please note: If Melbourne Fringe's ticket allocation is exhausted, please try visiting the venue website.

  • Free Event

*Prices are subject to change without notice. Standard terms and conditions apply.

Sessions: In Person Events

Date Time Venue

Saturday, 19 October 2024

4:30pm

Southbank Theatre, The Lounge

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