Tennessee Lavelle

Background

About Tennessee Lavelle

I am a theatre maker and artistic leader based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia with demonstrated experience in a range of roles including: artistic and organisational leadership, program design and management, producing, production and stage management, arts administration, advocacy, consultation, mentoring, and facilitation. This expertise is brought together with a deep care for capacity building and community building which I bring to all my roles. My practice is rooted in decolonial and intersectional ways of working, and I focus on building and supporting community through process-driven rather than outcome-driven ways of working. My career has especially centred young people as creative leaders and I passionately facilitate intergenerational conversations and codesign processes that carve out spaces where children and teens can speak openly and shape their own futures. This idea that young people should be afforded the opportunity to lead and make decisions impacting them and their peers is a core tenet of my work. I have a breadth of experience carrying out this work across different facets of the industry, working with independent theatre as well as in small-to-medium arts organisations, youth arts organisations and state government.