ABC 7.30 Report Laura Tingle interviews Heather Mitchell and Priscilla Jackman on the critically acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company production RBG: Of Many, One 20 th December 2022

ABC Radio Mornings with Sarah MacDonald
Heather Mitchell and Priscilla Jackman on the remarkable RBG

Weekend Australian Review Cover Story – ‘Raising the Bar’ Heather Mitchell as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Priscilla Jackman’s Sydney Theatre Company

production by acclaimed playwright, Suzie Miller, 8 October 2022

Aussie Theatre Heather Mitchell is trailblazer RBG in acclaimed playwright Suzie Miller’s latest play

ABC Radio National Arts, Michael Cathcart speaks to co-directors Priscilla Jackman and Dan Daw about their production of Cost of Living by Martyna Majok for Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre.

Pulitzer-winning play breaks down barriers with Australian debut
by Nick Dent, 12 June 2024

Peter FitzSimons sits down with Melanie Tait to talk about her new show, The Queen’s Nanny “The most moving story about the Queen you’ve never heard but must see”.

At a Yarra Valley cellar door, this Figaro is in hipster moustache heaven by Barney Zwartz  July 12, 2022

Acclaimed young director Priscilla Jackman has moved Rossini’s brilliantly inventive and witty comic opera more than 17,000 kilometres from Seville in Spain to Seville bordering the Yarra Valley, and by 200 years from 1816 to now.

Reimagining a classic opera with a Yarra Ranges twist by Callum Ludwig 20 July 2022

A Yarra Ranges suburb has inspired the contemporary reimagining of a classic opera production.

No such thing as bad publicity: White Pearl takes on cancel culture by Jil Hogan   13 April 2022

Sydney Theatre Company’s White Pearl set to open at Canberra Theatre Centre By Amy Martin April 23 2022

“In the Foyer” with Bill Stephens and Priscilla Jackman by Arts Sound FM “

ABC Radio National Arts, Michael Cathcart speaks to directors Priscilla Jackman and Andy Norton about their production of Bluebeard’s Castle for Opera Australia.

Note: Priscilla & Andy’s interview is 39min into the program

Director Priscilla Jackman talks to 2SER’s Regina Botros on Stages, about directing, Opera Australia’s new production of Bluebeard’s Castle, and life in the Arts.

Is there still room for operas that include rape and sexual assault

Anyone who thinks fairytales are for children clearly has not read Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard. The bloody, cautionary tale about the perils of curiosity and marriage belongs in the X-rated horror genre more than on a shelf of bedtime stories….

Now the transgender journalist, cricketer and former military officer is the subject of a new play in development at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Acclaimed actor Heather Mitchell will play McGregor in Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story to premiere at the STC in April 2018.

Writer-director Priscilla Jackman wrote the script after she met McGregor in 2015 and was captivated by her life story.

Two years ago, if you’d ask me what I thought of Catherine McGregor, you may well have received a lengthy and self-righteous ear-bashing about any number of issues – “she’s involved in the military, she didn’t support Safe Schools, she likes Tony Abbott, she did this, she said that, I heard that she blah blah blah …”

Two weeks ago I met Cate for the first time during her visit to the rehearsal room for Still Point Turning: the Catherine McGregor Story.

We greeted each other, shook hands, she showed us all some cricket moves, and I all but dissolved into tears of respect and gratitude.

In 2013 Priscilla was invited as specialist guest on The Weekend Arts Program ABC Radio National to discuss her methods of inspire a passion for Shakespeare amongst young people.

Checkout the interview on the ABC website

ABC’s The Feed, step inside Priscilla Jackman’s rehearsal room for White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King, for her Sydney Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta production.

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