How we started…
Tiny Bricks is the creative partnership of playwright Phillip Kavanagh and director Nescha Jelk. During a successful collaboration on Jesikah for STCSA in 2014, they bonded over a shared love of darkly comic theatre that is driven by the investigation of ideas and experimentation with form. They began developing Deluge, a work exploring information overload in the digital age, which went on to be presented in the 2016 Adelaide Festival of the Arts.
As One is the latest project by Tiny Bricks, exploring tribal belonging and isolation, to be presented on Facebook Live via Zoom amidst the COVID-19 lockdown.
About us…
Phillip Kavanagh
Phillip Kavanagh completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Flinders University, as well as a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art (Playwriting) at NIDA. He is currently a PhD candidate at Flinders University. Phillip has been awarded the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award, and the Colin Thiele Creative Writing Scholarship. His plays include Jesikah (STCSA), Deluge (Tiny Bricks/Brink/Adelaide Festival), Replay (Griffin) and a new adaptation of Molière’s Tartuffe (Brink/STCSA). He is currently a NEXT STAGE Resident Writer at Melbourne Theatre Company.
Nescha Jelk
Nescha graduated from Flinders University Drama Centre in 2010 with Honours and a University Medal. For the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Nescha has directed Jasper Jones, Terrestrial, Switzerland, Straight White Men (co-pro with La Boite), Gorgon, Volpone, Krapp’s Last Tape in the ‘Beckett Triptych’ (2015 Adelaide Festival, 2016 MOFO), Othello, Jesikah and Random. Independent theatre directing credits include Sepia (RiAus/Emily Steel), Hamlet (Actors Folio), Alice and Peter Grow Up (Milk Theatre Collective), Deluge (Tiny Bricks) and Yerma (Foul Play). Nescha was Resident Director at STCSA from 2013-2016. Since then, she has become a founder and Co-Executive Director of RUMPUS, a new artist-run curated independent theatre venue in Bowden.