About me

Playwright-Filmmaker-Poet-Director

Live with disability - Live with curiosity

Love wild water places - Love intimate spaces.

Sing spontaneously - Dance with interiority.

Exist with Pride.

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Michèle

Saint-Yves


Creative Portfolio

stage

page

screen

An Intimate Evening

with

#KickAssReds

September 2015

Rhino Room, SA

songs about

girls

&

their

fingertips

November 2012

Bakehouse Theatre, SA


FEAST Festival

I enjoy working with people that have a

conceptual aesthetic and practical mindset.

I am passionate about making work

that is moving, evocatively explores the 'otherness of the other' and embeds access,

and it's rewarding to work with others

who feel the same.

Other works

UGLY - a not fairytale

LABYRINTH PRODUCTIONS 2022, Writer

a hybrid dance-audio-visual performance as part of Adelaide Fringe Festival

PRESERVING JARS

Siren THeatre, 2019,

Professional staged reading of full length play as part of PLAYLIST INITIATIVE, Mardi Gras

ballad of the median strip

Gasworks Arts centre, 2015

Professional staged reading of full length play as part of PLAYTIME INITIATIVE, Midsumma

a piece for blood oranges & an electric guitar

fivepointone theatre, 2015

knowing me..you, 2010

Professional staged reading of 'playbaret' as part of THE READING SESSIONS


One Act play, Judges Award for Directing, PINK SHORTS, Midsumma

hunting in packs i & ii,

Southern youth theatre ensemble

1999 & 2000,

Executive Producer

Devised theatre works over three years with at risk young poeple with resource packs.

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Performance works in progress

EPIC LESBIAN DRAMA “HERSAY”,

i am currently in the FINAL stage of creative ​development of an epic drama of unrequited ​love between two best friendsthat spans ​three centuries, three continents and three ​towns. prima facie X THE hours x the ​childrens hour


[O-Ki] Project

iIn collaboration with designer bianka kennedy and artist eugenie lee, we are in the pratice based research, conceptual development and design stages of a work that intersects art, science, technology and disability studies that seeks to effect access intimacy.



  • Creative development at Vitalstatistix Theatre July 2024
  • Adel​aide Festival Centre's writeSPACE residency 2023
  • CRAM​ Collective residency 2022
  • Sign​et Library, Edinburgh Research Residency 2016
  • Mids​umma Festivals’ Playlist Residency 2015


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  • Design modelling residency funded by Richard Llewellyn Deaf Disabled Artists Fund Nov 2023 - April 2024
  • Pratice based Research Residency funded by Arts South Australia Arts Recovery Fund 2022 based at MOD.Museum and part of CRAM Collective's Residency Program Oct - Dec 2022
  • Technolgy development by Eugenie funded through an Australia Council repurposed grant in partnership with ADEPT, NSW in 2023


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Modern Simple Minimalist Frames

Page

Winner:

FSP Single Poets Collection 2021

October 2021, Friendly Street Poets, SA

$22 per book, with signed dedication

PLUS Postage & handling. Email me.

Recent Publications

questing Beast & Coalescent

2023, rabbit JOURNAL,#37


In edition themed ‘Collaboration’

GRief, loss and the injured brain

2023, Science write now JOURNAL,#8


Essay published in Edition 8 themed 'Disability and the body

BECOMING Unlonely

2022, Sable books, NY, USA


The Taoundi Trail & a-Lighting

2021, ginninderra press, S.A

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Melbourne Street, Route 218 & Black Saturdhaze

2020, clouds of magellan press, vic.


in ‘The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet ’ Anthology of writing by disabled authors, Edited by Hannah Soyer


in ‘Adelaide: Mapping the Human City Anthology’. Edited by Deb Stewart.


in Bent Street Anthology LGBTIQA+ Writing & Ideas, Issue 4.2

coffee order

2020, room magazine, canada


The Permission Slip

2019, MsLexia, united kingdom

':Neurodivergence’ Issue, vol 43.3



Novella shortlisted for International MSLEXIA «Women’s Novella Prize»

The inner shepherd

2017, SOUTHERLY JOURNAL,NSW


Short story published in Southerly literary journal Edition 76.2

Modern Simple Minimalist Frames

Screen

Short film, 2002

Raw Nerve Initiative


Opening night, Shorts Film Festival 2003


SBS Summer of Shorts 2003

The Case

of the

Missing

Marilyns

Short film, 2003

Mercury Cinema:

Media Resource Centre SA TropFest Entries Screening

songs about girls &

their fingertips

Short fIlm, 2003

Feast Festival, SA

Recent Residencies/ Shortlists

access coordinator program

Screen Australia, 2023

'Selected as one of nine to be trained as Australian Screen’s inauagural Access Coordinators

quicksilver

writer & director, SAFC & mercury cx, 2021

'The Permission Slip' shortlisted for short film funding initiative

SPRINGBOARD PLUS INITIATIVE

Writer & director, mar -may 2021



FILM LAB:NEW VOICES

Writer & director, SAFC & AFF, FEB 2021


SPARK! INITIATIVE

writer, matchbox pictures, aug-sept 2020

Scholarship to undertake this film making program run by Mercury CX and South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)


Shortlisted for this Screen Australia and SAFC low budget feature film initiative


One of ten selected for development and pitching of a TV SERIES CONCEPT to Matchbox Pictures.

TALENT CAMP SA

writer, AFTRS & SAFC, 2019


FULL TILT - DIsability short doc

writer & creative consultant, SAFC & SBS, 2018

Screen project development program exploring taking script to a pitch for web or TV episodic series


‘Empire of the Underdogs’ reaching final commissioning shortlist and development funding

screen/multimedia

works in progress

NO AMOUNT OF MINDFULNESS...

i am currently making a creative non-fiction short digital series with the above stem phrase as an opening prompt for artists with disability to write a short monologue.


THE EXQUISITE FAMILIAR

i am one of eleven artists with disability that created works for this interactive, immersive, multi-art form installation. SUpported by Access2arts, AGSA & MOD.MUSEUM.

https://youtu.be/g8KQhntIClg




  • first episode with Kirsty Martinsen written and filmed, in editing stage
  • Second episode with myself written and in filming stage


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  • digital and sound workshops and exhibition at MOD.Museum in 2023
  • drawing workshop and exhibtion at The Studio, Art Gallery of South Australia Dec-Jan 2022-23


Malak El Halabi

Other roles

Access Coordinator for Screen see CrewHQ profile in contact details below

Access Coordinator at Nexus Arts https://nexusarts.org.au/

Board Member, Australian Network of Art and Technology https://anat.org.au/

Co-Convenor, RUMPUS Theatre https://www.rumpustheatre.org/

Get in touch with me

@

simplylateral@gmail.com

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0449 879 188

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