Week 3 (Part One): Ann Arbor and Brown County It’s been a fun but massive week of shows and city jumping. We left Kitchener and said goodbye to Canada (for now) and started our week long trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas. We crossed the border into the US, drove past the outskirts of Detroit and made…
While on tour with our loveable superstar Grug, performer Matt Crook will be penning a tour blog to keep you up-to-date on all things Grug and the Rainbow in North America. Check it out below. Week One: Washington DC, USA We’re back on tour with Grug and The Rainbow and back in North America….
The Australian Film Critics Association has spoken. Quirky South Australian coming of age tale Girl Asleep has taken the top prize at the 2017 Australian Film Critics Association, while Goldstone and The Daughter picked up acting honours for Aaron Pedersen and Odessa Young, respectively. Ivan Sen also won Best Director for Goldstone, while Simon Stone…
Windmill Theatre Co Artistic Director, Rosemary Myers, has been awarded the Australia Council Theatre Award for 2017. This prestigious award is given to one artist as recognition of the outstanding achievements and considerable contributions they have made to theatre. Rose has been Artistic Director of Windmill Theatre Co since 2008. During her time with the…
Grug and the Rainbow is less than a month away from taking off on another 3-month tour of the US and Canada. Before it all kicks off, we sat down with Windmill Program and Production Manager, Jason Warner, who is heading overseas to keep Grug and his friends in check, to find out what it’s…
Windmill Theatre Co favourite, Grug is off on tour again in March bringing his latest show to the US and Canada, Grug and the Rainbow. We sat down with local Adelaide actor Matt Crook, who is part of the cast keeping Grug company on his big adventure, to chat about his career, his time with…
The 2016 Ruby Awards were held at the Australian Symphony Orchestra’s Grainger Studios on Saturday night where Windmill took out awards for Best Work and Arts Innovation and Enterprise for Girl Asleep. Our Artistic Director, Rosemary Myers, was there to accept the awards, along with the cream of the crop in South Australian Arts and…
South Australian designer Jonathon Oxlade has won an AACTA Award for Best Costume Design for the coming-of age film, Girl Asleep. The sixth Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, which acknowledge excellence in film, television and documentary, was held at the Star Event Centre in Sydney today. This major award caps off a…
This year, Windmill Theatre Co underwent a complete brand transformation and the graphic designer behind the creative process was communikate et al’s Ashleigh Abbott. Windmill and Ashleigh began working together five years ago after she graduated from University of South Australia with a Visual Communication degree and a post-graduate diploma in Visual Arts. We sat…
Windmill Theatre’s resident designer Jonathon Oxlade has won a $160,000 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for his contribution to the arts. Jonathon, whose design work for the Adelaide-based national children’s theatre company has included its internationally acclaimed Pinocchio, Grug, Big Bad Wolf and the film adaptation of Girl Asleep, was the only South Aussie among eight…
Windmill Theatre Co has just launched its 2017 Arts Education Program which features three home-grown shows for children, Big Bad Wolf, Beep and Grug and the Rainbow. Aimed at preschoolers and lower primary students, posters about the program were sent to more than 3000 schools across the state. To tell us more about this program,…