ABOUT THIS PODCAST

Chats with Creatives is a platform Bronte Charlotte created for artists in theatre scenes and creative spaces around the world to have open and honest conversations about living as creative humans. Bronte released the first season of Chats with Creatives in 2020 during Melbourne’s first lockdown period; a project she had long been thinking about, it became almost too perfect a time to create this space for conversation, connection and education.

Being in isolation created an acute and sometimes unbearable lack in connection with fellow creatives, and there was a collective loss for our industry and community as theatres and companies started to close down. The conversations that came from this specific period are so important because creatives around the world have been affected by COVID-19 in so many different ways. Artists, creatives, and people who’s whole lives are steeped in creative endeavours, experienced such a deep loss for which we needed to grieve, and be supported in our grief. There is now a brewing excitement for what’s to come, and as one of our guests so poignantly puts it, we may be heading into a whole new ‘Renaissance of Art.’

Until that starts to become more accessible and attainable we are stuck here in this liminal space of ‘in between-ness,’ all readying ourselves for the moment theatres reopen around the globe, sets get back to a sense of ‘normal-ness,’ stories and experiences can be shared face to face, and healing through art is remembered by our governments to be hugely important to our wider community and the connection we all feed off of as human beings. During this time, Chats with Creatives will continue to release conversations that help to bring us together as we live and breathe our art from afar.

Bronte Charlotte is a queer Australian actor living in Naarm (Melbourne). She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and since graduating in 2018 has been working in different fields within the arts, exploring performing, writing, directing, casting and producing. Bronte is currently working on the Melbourne based independent feature film In The Meantime in the lead role of Max, for which she is casting and co-producing with writer/director Nicholas Anthony. She is also producing the new play Pieces of Shit, that her and her partner Leigh Scully wrote in 2021, which will have it’s world premier season in May at The Butterfly Club. Bronte joined director Cathy Hunt for a directing attachment on Phantasmagoria in March 2022, and will be assistant directing Gavin Roach’s’ Disco Pigs and This Is Living as a part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022.

Bronte toured Shakespeare and Australian poetry throughout regional Victoria with Complete Works Theatre Company in 2019, for which she played both Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (dirs. Mark Wilson & Andrew Blackman). She then ended the year with a production of Where’s My Money (dir. Beng Oh) with 7th Floor Theatre Company, completing a return season in February of 2020.

While studying at the VCA, Bronte performed on stage as Henry in Henry V (dir. Leith McPherson), Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of our Teeth (dir. Dean Bryant), and Rev. Parris in The Crucible (dir. Adena Jacobs). Bronte travelled to the Shanghai Theatre Academy to take part in the Asia Pacific Bond Theatre Schools Festival and received the Pratt Bursary for Excellence in Acting in 2017.

Bronte is originally from Brisbane, Meanjin Country. She acknowledges the Turrbal People and that sovereignty was never ceded. She is a yoga teacher and teaches drama classes with Stage School Australia, and is passionate about mental health and human rights. Bronte is an avid theatre goer, and aims to be making theatre that is provocative and charged with discussions surrounding personal, social and political issues.