Dave Sleswick

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About Dave Sleswick

Dave Sleswick is graduate from the Queensland University of Technology, BA Creative Industries Drama, the director of Motherboard Productions and the Creative Director of the Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane. As the director of Motherboard, Dave was a recipient of the 2012 Bootcamp Producer’s Mentorship and a recipient of the Australia Council’s 2012 Independent Producers Initiative. Dave has been the key producer, project manager, curator and creator for many independents works and programs around the country and abroad. Dave was an Associate Producer for Next Wave Festival (2013-14), Producer for MAPS for Artists (2013) and was the General Manager for Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre (2006-07). Dave held the position of Producer for Contemporary Performance at the Brisbane Powerhouse (2015-16), Program Producer for the 2016 and 2018 Australian Performing Arts Markets and Program Producer and Music Curator for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival. In 2016, Dave became the Co-Owner and Creative Director of The Tivoli Theatre, an iconic art-deco music venue and contemporary arts space situated in the heart of Brisbane. Between 2010 and 2018, in partnership with the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Brisbane Powerhouse and REM Theatre, Dave managed the Australia Korea International Cultural Exchange - an annual artist exchange program for Australian and Korean performance makers.Dave has directed La Voix Humaine - The Human Voice (La Boite 2012), Iphigenia 2.0 (Vena Cava 2012), Meet You Downstairs at the Bar (Melbourne Cabaret Festival), Virgins and Cowboys (Theatreworks 2015, Griffin Theatre 2017) and Or Forever Hold Your Peace (La Boite 2014) for which he received a Matilda Award nomination for Best Director and won the 2014 QPAC Independent Theatre Award. He is the producer for the Underground (Metro Arts, Brisbane Festival, World Theatre Festival, APAM, Hi Seoul Festival), Deluge (Brisbane Festival, Seoul International Dance Festival, Osan Arts Centre, Seoul Arts Space Mullae, Namsan Arts Centre), Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall,(Canberra, Brisbane) and Shimchong: Daughter Overboard!(World Theatre Festival, APAM). Dave has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts to participate in several international performing arts markets and IETM meetings and is a Steering Committe member for the Asia Producers Platform. In 2015, Dave was awarded the prestigious Brisbane City Council’s Lord Mayor’s Fellowship to participate in artist residencies in Berlin and Seoul.