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Liv is a theatre-maker, writer, dramaturg and facilitator trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (Masters of Directing) and the University of Sydney. Her practice focuses on building community platforms for independent artists, on new writing development, and on producing original work through VIMH. Her recent body of work The Grief Trilogy (‘I sat and waited but you were gone too long’; ‘my sister feather’; ‘let bleeding girls lie’) is three thematically linked plays exploring transformational encounters between strangers in public space, and was presented in March 2023 at La Mama Courthouse. She is in the midst of making her mainstage debut with original work Nayika: A Dancing Girl at Belvoir Street Theatre, co-created and co-directed with Nithya Nagarajan.

Her plays have been variously shortlisted for the Phillip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, the Max Afford Playwrights Award, and the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. She has been nominated for Best Director four times at the Green Room Awards and both ‘I sat and waited but you were gone too long’ and ‘let bleeding girls lie’ won Best New Writing for Independent Theatre.

 

Her community practice focuses on fostering emerging artists, new writing development and building spaces for sharing practice. Her work in these areas has included co-founding Small and Loud in 2016, a monthly performance program for new works in development that worked with over 300 young artists across its three years of programming. She has also produced several new writing programs through VIMH and has variously mentored or facilitated for Union House Theatre, VCA, Fairfax Youth Initiative and the Arts Centre Melbourne.