• Lia Stark

    A feminist theatre-maker, collaborator , Budding Social Worker and clown

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    As a Melbourne-based performance maker, Lia is a brash, angry, femme, unapologetically overt,

    sex-positive, community-based artist who, rather optimistically, has decided to

     

    change the world through art.

  • Recent Projects

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    Destiny is a Double Edged Sword

    La Mama Explorations

     

    Destiny is a Double Edged Sword is an exploration of Destiny - Magic - Ritual - Manifesting - Stars - Memory - Creation - Ceremony.

     

    But ultimately, this was an exploration of Friendship.

    Nervous little bean and performer - Lia Stark

     

    All songs written and performed by the incomparable Asli Ibrahim and Monica Ludekens


    Facilitation, Reminders to Breathe and Dramaturgy - Brendan Ewing


    Support and Thoughtful Provocations - Cynthia Sobraty

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    Love Letters to Fuckbois (2015 - now)

    Collaboratively devised by Lia Stark and Melina Wightman.

     

    Just because you're confident and sassy on the street, doesn't mean you don't need love between the sheets!

     

    Follow these letter punches from the loins of two ladies with too much or maybe too little experience with men, as they question sex, love, and intimacy in the age of tinder. The clit is the pen and the pen is the sword with these tongue-in-cheek Scarlett letters that delve into the neurosis of the female libido, scattered with a symphony of (fore)play on words. Is it just these two lasses who define embarrassment in the boudoir or are we all doomed to be unlucky in love?

     

    It’s not as much a performance as it is a manifesto

    Jonathan O’Brien

     

    Outstanding fire and heartbreaking vulnerability” Rhumer Diball

     

    Wightman and Stark are clever, hilarious and write a damn good letter, just maybe not one you’d like to be on the receiving end on”

    Heidi Harrison


    “Prepare to get weird/cry if you're wanting to hit this one up

    Pedestrian TV.

     

     

     

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    Not quite white (2019)

    An experiment in being QTIPOC and imperfect

     

    Meet the four-piece Bjorkian/Shatner-esque punk band that you never knew you needed.

     

    An group of QTIPOC people from Melbourne discovering what it means to be gay, black and creative in Melbourne and the world!

     

    Follow them on Instagram

    @notquitewhiteband

     

     

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    Drag king

    Available for Private Hire and MC work

     

    Exploring her Argentinian heritage, this drag king will bring a "DIOS MIO" to any audience's lips.

     

    Sexy. Debaucherous.

     

    This gaucho is delighting audiences across Melbourne and Brisbane.

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    Red centre festival - werribee

    Roaming performance and collaboration

     

    Silliness on the streets.

     

    Created by Amanda Shone x Angela Hickey

     

    Performed and Devised by Brendan Ewing and Lia Stark

  • Portfolio

    creative collaborations

    Currently

    Hosting FROFFPOT Trivia - Every Tuesday 7pm at Bodriggy Brewery, Collingwood

     

    Not Currently

    La Mama Explorations 2022 - Destiny is A Double Edged Sword

     

    NEUROMANTIC - a queer cabaret

    Producer and Dramaturg

    Melbourne Fringe Festival x CRITICAL MASS 2019

     

    NOMINATED

    Matilda Award 2018

    Billie Brown Award for Best Emerging Artist

     

    Love Letters to Fuckbois

    Metro Arts SOLD OUT 2018

    Anywhere Theatre Festival 5/16

    Melbourne Fringe Festival 9/16

    Asthena Music and Poetry Slam, The Foundry 6/16

    Passiona Intersectional Arts Night, The Brightside 11/16

     

    SLUTWalk Cabaret Fundraiser 

    LOOP Project Space

    Drag 2019

     

    Love Letters to Fuckbois Presents: A Podcast Series

    10 episode series, Co-Host 9/2017

     

    Festival of Australian Student Theatre

    Artistic Director 2017

     

    "Leah Sublime" by Aleister Crowley and Rebuttal

    Poetry Reading and Facilitator

    People's Pride Festival, 8/2017

     

    Einstein on The Bitch 

    Writer, Performer and Facilitator

    Anywhere Theatre Festival 5/2017

     

    An Act of Intimacy

    By Ruby Donohoe

    2High Festival Presentation 1/16

     

    Pea Green Doesn't Last Forever

    Writer, Director and Performer

    Fresh Blood Festival 11/14

     

    Taming of the Shrew - A Grateful Chorus

    Collaborator and Director 10/14

     

    Brisbane - A Doing Word - Australian Premiere

    By David Burton

    Directed by Claire Christian

    Lead Performer 3/13

     

    Iphigenia 2.0

    By Charles Mee

    Directed by Dave Sleswick, Motherboard Productions

    Vena Cava Productions

    Collaborator, Performer 7/12

     

    Can We Do It?

    Devised by Lia Stark and Kitty Gatling

    Mainstage Production 5/12

     

    Panels and MC

    Art Battle x REACHOUT.com

    MC

    Melbourne Central

     

    Art Battle Melbourne

    MC

    Welcome to Thornbury

     

    Woodford Folk Festival 2018/19

    Parlour Stage Host

     

    Woodford Folk Festival 2017/18

    Parlour Stage Host

     

    Brisbane Feminist Festival

    Women in Arts and Media Panel 2017

     

    Vena Cava Productions Fresh Blood Festival

    Arts and Activism Panel 2016

     

    education and residencies

    Betty Grumble's THEATRE AS MEDICINE

    Participant

    2019

     

    Bachelor of Fine Arts/

    Bachelor of Business 

    Queensland University of Technology

    - Graduated with Distinction -

     

    Dicky Beau NIDA Masterclass

    Melbourne International Arts Festival 2018

     

    Australian Performing Arts Market - Youth Delegate

    Brisbane 2018

     

    Welcome to the Phallaxy

    Development

    House Conspiracy Resident Artist 2/2017

     

    Improvised Movement NYC

    w Stacey Donovan at The Improbably Stage 2015

     

    Brisbane Festival

    Theatre Republic Producing Intern 2014

     

     

     

  • Keen to Collaborate?

    All theatrical, political, existential, musical, dramaturgical, theological and personal inquiries

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    lia.f.stark@gmail.com

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    @curlsofthefuture @loveletterstofuckbois