Join us for a workshop to exercise your performing skills and meet fellow creatives.
Actors, writers, directors and everyone in between come together for workshops run by industry professionals.
Classes are ‘pay what you can’. Everyone is welcome.
2025 Dates
12 Feb - Somatic Movement for Presence, Expression, and Regulation with Robyn Mew
5 March - Intro to Intimacy: Stage & Screen with Rebecca Fortuna
21 March - Acting Through Song with Sophie Loughran
19 April - Set Design with Savanna Wegman
10 May - Move with Power with Lily Fish
More workshops coming soon!
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QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please get in touch at hello@witinc.com.au.
Theatre-makers and creatives of all disciplines are invited to join us on Workshops with Wit to build creative skill through experimentation, collaboration and artistic discourse. Workshops with Wit is an accessible and inclusive space for established practitioners, emerging artists and curious non-professional creatives alike.
Sundays are run on a pay what you can basis, and if you’re unable to pay you’re very welcome to join the workshops for free. All payment goes towards artist fees, and helps us keep this program running.
Upcoming Workshops:
Set Design: Translations Of The Invisible Into Architecture
with Savanna Wegman
Imaginings in poetic world building and set design
Sunday 19 April 10:30am-12pm
Yarraville Senior Citizens Club (48 Fehon St, Yarraville VIC 3013)
ABOUT THE EVENT
This workshop will introduce playful frameworks to develop a concept for a theatrical and hyperreal set design. This process draws out poetic images and extends them into spatial images, teaching approaches to blend the unreal and the real, the functional and the aesthetic. This workshop is suited to people interested in stylised set design or want to discover hyperreal approaches to design dramaturgy.
DETAILS
- Introduction to set design: learn the basics of how theatrical sets are conceived and developed.
- Hands-on creative activity: practice generating initial design ideas in a fun, guided exercise.
WHAT TO BRING
- A source text: a script, novel, poem, film – something that inspires you. It should have at least 1-2 pages of text to draw from.
- Bottle of water
- Something to take notes on
ABOUT THE COACH
Savanna Wegman is a set and costume designer and writer working across theatre, opera, dance and circus. She is New Zealand born, of Chinese Malaysian and Dutch descent and is now based on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne).
Recent credits include 5 Green Room Nominated set designs 'Pride and Prejudice' (The Bloomshed, 2025) ‘Our Monster’s Name is Jerry’ (Dirty Pennies Theatre, 2025), ‘The Last Train to Madeline’ (Fever103 Theatre, 2024), ‘Biographica’ (Lyric Opera, 2023) and ‘Brittany and The Mannequins’ (Fever103 Theatre, 2022).
Set & Costume Designer ‘Katya Kabanova’ (Victorian Opera), ‘Converted!’ (Sydney Festival, ATYP), ‘Our Monster’s Name is Jerry’ (Dirty Pennies Theatre), ‘Climbers’ (Fever103 Theatre), ‘STAUNCH ASF’ (Amelia Jean O’Leary, Melbourne Fringe), Set Designer 'A Certain Mumble' (Amelia Jean O’Leary, Darebin Arts Speakeasy).
Savanna has been the associate designer for Marg Howell for ‘My Brilliant Career’ (Melbourne Theatre Company), Anna Cordingley - ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Dann Barber - ‘Candide’ (Victorian Opera), ‘Far Away’ (Patalog Theatre), 'The Crocodile' (Spinning Plates Co.), ‘The Dream Laboratory’ (Essential Theatre) and ‘The Mermaid’ (La Mama).
Move With Power
with Lily Fish
Sunday 10May 10:30am-12pm
Yarraville Senior Citizens Club (48 Fehon St, Yarraville VIC 3013)
ABOUT THE EVENT
The actor’s body is their instrument and their art. Everything that we do on stage is witnessed by the audience. Every move we make is interpreted. Each gesture, each pause, each pose makes meaning.
In this workshop you will expand your kinaesthetic awareness through familiar and unfamiliar ways of moving. You will notice personal movement patterns, explore movement dynamics, and learn exercises to increase articulation of the body.
This is a workshop for performers of all experience levels with an interest in body centric theatre practice, or performers who would like to learn to use their bodies in performance more confidently or with more precision.
DETAILS
Expand your kinaesthetic awareness and discover new ways of moving to enhance your stage presence
Learn practical exercises to improve body articulation, precision, and confidence in performance
WHAT TO BRING
Please wear neutral coloured clothes you are comfortable moving in. Eg tracksuit, yoga pant, leggings. No jeans or skirts. No bright colours or big logos.
We will work in bare feet or shoes that are suitable for movement. Eg runners. No flipflops, sandals, boots.
Bring a water bottle.
You may want to bring a yoga mat, but this is not essential.
ABOUT THE COACH
Lily Fish (any pronouns) is a performer, maker, director and teaching artist specialising in physical theatre. They are a graduate of the National Theatre, the John Bolton Theatre School and an ongoing student of Giovanni Fusetti.
Lily is a founding member of award winning physical theatre companies PO PO MO CO, The Wholesome Hour, Brunswick East Entertainment Festival and Fish and Twiner.
They have taught at Fed Uni, Western Edge Youth Arts, Women*s Circus and independently.
This project is supported by Maribyrnong city council
