UTP STAFF

ALICIA TALBOT - Artistic Director

Alicia is a director, dramaturg and performer. Over the last 15 years she has devised new theatre works created by teams of artists working in residence in specific sites, including detention centres, housing estates, warehouses, highways and back yards. She has been the Artistic Director of Urban Theatre Projects since 2001 and her latest work The Fence premiered at Sydney Festival 2010. Other works at UTP include The Last Highway (Sydney Festival 2008) and the acclaimed trilogy The Cement Garage, The Longest Night (both presented as part of Adelaide Festival 2002), and Back Home (Sydney Festival 2006). Back Home toured to The Dreaming Festival in 2006 and Toronto's international arts festival LuminaTO in conjunction with a development project commissioned by Harbourfront Centre in June 2007. In 2006 and 2008 Alicia was also commissioned to work on a development project The Scotswood Project with Newcastle Gateshead Iniative and creatived a new short work with La Pocha Nostra, Mexico City, 2005. Prior to UTP, Alicia was artist in residence at High Street Youth Health Service for 5 years where she directed a number of project including The Cement Garage and Wild Knights (with Erth Visual & Physical Inc.). Alicia was a member of the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council of the Arts 2001-2004 and received an Arts NSW Western Sydney Artists' Fellowship in 1999.

MICHELLE KOTEVSKI - Executive Producer

Before joining UTP Michelle was a Creative Producer with the prolific national arts and social change company Big hART Inc. At Big hART she produced the award-winning Junk Theory that premiered in the Sydney Festival 2007 and went on to tour the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts and the Ten Days On the Island Festival 2009. She was also a consulting producer on GOLD and worked across the company's major projects including Ngapartji Ngapartji and This Is Living. In 2009 Michelle was the Project Manager of one of the hits of the Sydney Festival Play Me I'm Yours, working with UK artist Luke Jerram. In recent times she has worked with the William Buckland Foundation, RPR Consulting and Glynn Nicholas Group on Eurobeat-Almost Eurovision.

Michelle spent 5 years at the Australia Council for the Arts with the Theatre and Community Cultural Development Boards. Before joining the Council she was Acting Executive Producer at One Extra Dance Company, Season Manager at the Seymour Centre (Theatre Hydra), Community Cultural Development Co-ordinator at Carnivale Festival and held various roles with Shopfront Theatre for Young People and Xtext Magazine. Michelle is currently producing her first documentary Bel Den about the late Tose Proeski. She is also the Chair of Queen Street Studio in Sydney.

BIBI SERAFIM - Company Manager

Fabiana (Bibi) Serafim has been with UTP since 2006, and has had a rich and varied career in the arts for the past 10 years. She has an MA in Marketing Communications (University of Westminster, London). Born in Brazil, she moved to Sydney via a 5 year stint in the UK. On arriving in Sydney, Bibi completed an internship at Critical Path before joining UTP. In London, Bibi worked for Artsadmin as a marketing coordinator and administrator for companies/artists such as Station House Opera, Bobby Baker and Graeme Miller, was production assistant for Spanish artist La Ribot for her UK and European tours, and was project assistant for Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. Bibi started her working life in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as an advertising agency account executive and also worked for 3 years as administrator for visual artist Dudu Santos and his gallery.

ANNELIES CROWE - Administrative Producer

Annelies first studied a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts in Theatre at the University of Tasmania graduating in 2005. In 2006 she was awarded the Tasmanian Country Club Theatrical Development award, which allowed her to work at the University and CentreStage Theatre Company as an actor, director, associate lecturer and administrator. After spending a year working in various capacities in the Tasmanian theatre industry, she travelled to Perth to study a Bachelor of Arts (Arts Management) at the Western Australian Academy of Arts, graduating in 2010. Whilst at the Academy she worked as an administrator with Perth theatre company ThinIce and culminated her studies with a three-month internship at Belvoir in Sydney. Most recently she travelled to New York as Company Manager of Belvoir’s Diary of a Madman.

AMANDA SMITH - Financial Administrator

Amanda joined Urban Theatre Projects in early 2007 beginning her involvement with the Arts community. Amanda has numerous years of experience in a variety of areas contributing to the financial and administrative management and growth of many businesses, including operating her own successful small business.