Bernadette Fam announced as New Work Manager for Malthouse Theatre

Malthouse Theatre is delighted to appoint Bernadette Fam as New Work Manager, commencing 21 November 2022. This key role in Malthouse Theatre’s artistic team is responsible for managing commissions with new writers, managing artist development programs including the Besen Artists Program and Malcolm Robertson Writer’s Program, and provides dramaturgical support to Malthouse Theatre season productions.

Bernadette Fam is an Egyptian-Australian interdisciplinary dramaturg, director and theatremaker. She is a creative producer of Green Door Theatre Company, who created the Australian season of seven methods of killing kylie jenner in collaboration with Sydney’s Darlinghurst Theatre Company, which will kick of Malthouse Theatre’s Season 2023 this January. As a dramaturg Bernadette has worked with a range of companies including Playwriting Australia, PYT Fairfield, Sydney Chamber Opera, Poetry in Action, Critical Stages Touring, Green Door Theatre Company, Rogues Projects and Antipodes Theatre Bernadette has also worked as a script assessor for Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company. In 2022 she was a Literary Associate for Belvoir Theatre Company, a Griffin Studio Artist and Creative Producer at Green Door Theatre Company.

Matthew Lutton, Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director & Co-CEO:

‘Bernadette Fam is a brilliant theatrical thinker and creator. She is a fantastic dramaturg, a passionate supporter and advocate for artists emerging to established, and insightful in her thinking about where theatre is going and how we can get there. I can’t wait for Bernadette to join the team at Malthouse Theatre as New Work Manager.

Bernadette Fam:

I am absolutely thrilled to join Malthouse Theatre as New Work Manager. I am looking forward to working with Matt and the team to push the boundaries of what theatre can be as we strive to foster, and celebrate, every artist’s most authentic form of storytelling.