Time Rebel by Hannah Moloney
ABOUT THE SHOW
Hannah Moloney’s ‘Time Rebel’ represents our first major commission that sees us delivering a new development model of collaboration with regional communities.
Time Rebel will open and close the festival in the north and south of the state. With an extraordinary team of creative collaborators including award winning playwright/dramaturg Alana Valentine, musical director/arranger/ choirmaster Amanda Hodder, Hannah will work with communities from these regions to co-create her show.
The project represents an opportunity to amplify the value of the arts in regional Tasmania, acknowledge and inspire social imagination and provide a vehicle for community engagement, reflection, and celebration. Through our partner networks we will be undertaking community outreach to bring together a diverse inter-generational group of performers to collaborate with Hannah and the team on the show.
Distinctively Tasmanian, Time Rebel reflects Hannah Moloney’s unique character, style, and voice. Offering a fresh, aspirational vision of possibility, Hannah shares her personal story, a journey of protest and activism that transforms into a determination to inspire others to join her in changing the world. Throughout the show, as she is joined on stage by guest artists and local choirs, Hannah brings the audience together as chorus and community, inviting us to ‘dream big’, and to consider our role in terms of climate justice and action.
Life affirming, playful, and totally engaging, this is participatory performance meets rock and roll spectacular. Time Rebel ‘speaks to our times, is of our times, and inspires each of us to believe we can make a difference.
Creative Credits
Lead Artist: Hannah Moloney
Director/Associate Artist: Alana Valentine
Musical Director: Amanda Hodder
Production Designer: Edith Perrenot
Lighting/AV Designer: Jason James
Band: Simon Patterson and Aaron Loveless
Artist Biographies
Lead Artist: Hannah Moloney
Hannah lives in nipaluna/Hobart where you’ll find her working across many areas including being the lutruwita/Tasmanian host for ABC TV’s Gardening Australia (dream gig), a permaculture educator, community worker, designer and best-selling author. Hannah has spent the past two decades getting her hands dirty in the garden, with community change projects, political and front line activism. You can also find me having a crack at playing the ukulele, trying to master the ever-elusive chin up, plaiting my daughter’s hair and hugging my
puppy/chickens/goats/ducks.
Director/Associate Artist: Alana Valentine
In 2024 Alana directed her AWGIE Award winning narrative poem Notre Dame, for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, premiering at the Melbourne Recital Hall, then Sydney City Recital Hall. In 2017 Alana was nominated as Best Director in the Tasmanian Theatre Awards for her direction of The Tree Widows for the Tasmanian Theatre Company, about an avenue of memorial trees in Hobart’s Domain, commissioned by Ten Days on the Island, Hobart City Council and the Friends of the Soldier’s Memorial Avenue. For the 2012 Festival of Sydney Alana directed Barefoot Divas: Walk A Mile In My Shoes, which toured to North America and Canada in 2014 and sold out the Hong Kong Concert Hall at the HKIAF in 2015. In 2016 Alana co-directed a production of One Billion Beats, co-written with Indigenous poet and visionary Romaine Moreton, presented at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In 2008 she wrote and directed Watermark for Katherine Regional Arts and Elderflowers for the Older and Wiser Festival in South Sydney in 2009. She also directed and wrote The Modest Aussie Cozzie for the St Ignatius College’s Storylines Cultural Festival in November 2009. Alana has also directed numerous children’s theatre productions including the stage plays The Prospectors and The Mapmaker’s Brother at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Radio Silence at the Australian War Memorial, and an 8 week sold out season of Ratticus and Reidar at the Hyde Park Barracks. For ABC Radio Alana directed more than thirty radio plays and features, working with hundreds of actors, technicians and other writers. Alana is also an award winning writer and librettist.
Musical Director: Amanda Hodder
Described as “magic” by esteemed UK vocal accompanist Malcolm Martineau, Amanda returned to Tasmania in 2011, taking up the role of Associate Lecturer in Accompaniment at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, a role which she held for ten years. During her final years at the Conservatorium Amanda also held the role of Co-ordinator of Classical Voice. As a vocal repertoire specialist, Amanda has worked as staff accompanist at Federation University, Monash University, Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She has received first place in National Liederfest, Mietta Song Recital Award and the Geoffrey Parsons Award. Amanda worked regularly in the professional musical theatre industry on mainland Australia, privately coaching singers and playing in the orchestras and bands of shows such as Phantom of the Opera and Jersey Boys. Amanda was involved in the Australian premiere of many small scale productions such as Songs For A New World, The Last Five Years, A New Brain, Eurobeat and Tick Tick Boom! In the classical world, Amanda coached countless early years professional singers and was credited by Nicole Carr as being integral in her preparation for her career-starting Herald Sun Aria winning performance. As a music director, Amanda has worked and conducted in the education streams for Opera Queensland and Opera Australia. A keen collaborator, Amanda has co-created classical and musical theatre presentations for Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Sydney Cabaret Festival, Midsumma, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Ten Days on the Island, Australian Musical Theatre Festival, Mona Foma, and Beaker Street Festival. Amanda is currently vocal tutor at Hobart College, accompanist at Elizabeth College and has a busy private studio of piano and vocal students and continues to create and perform extensively around the country.
In 2021, Amanda collaborated with countertenor Nicholas Tolputt, director Benjamin Winspear, and cinematographer Martin McGrath to create an immersive experience/performance of Schubert’s Winterreise, which resulted in a sell-out season. In 2022, Amanda worked with neurodiverse children to create a rock cabaret based on their experiences, created a series of new piano works with composer Jabra Latham, and was invited for a third time to be resident at Performing Lines Tasmania’s Tarraleah residency. In Ten Days On the Island’s 2023 program, Amanda was Choral Director for Women of Troy, with new music and lyrics by Katie Noonan and Bahrouz Bouchani.
Production Designer: Edith Perrenot
Edith is an artist, designer and maker of visual and performing art based around Hobart/nipaluna. Her practices focus on emotionality and interactiveness, creating intersectional univers layered with entry points and depths for the viewer to reach. She unfolds and infolds elements perceived as “the common” to interrogate what really shapes our “sensitive cultural landscape”. Edith works in an extensive range of material with a predilection for paint, wood, paper, ceramic and natural materials. Her demarche of creation and design is based around principles of sustainability and upcycling. She believes that “The show must go on” but not at any cost, human and/or environmental.
Lighting/AV Designer: Jason James
Jason James works with electricity to make art. He has had several artworks presented in festivals, and galleries, around Tasmania. He has designed lights, and or projection, for dozens of professional productions. He has a strong focus on new Australian works, and projects with social benefit. He won two Tasmanian Theatre Awards for lighting design: Terrapin’s Big Baby, and Hobart Repertory’s Speaking in Tongues. Selected recent credits include design for Bleeding Tree for Archipelago Productions 2020, On Memory 2021 Sonia Heap, Dark Path Dark MOFO 2019, F*ck Invisible Practice 2020, Seven Deadly Sins 2020, Belvedere Ballroom 2021 Mature Artist Dance Ensemble. Let Me Dry Your Eyes Second Echo Ensemble 2021 MONA FOMA. Till It’s Gone Exhibition MONA FOMA 2021.
The Choirs
Hobart Choirs
The Cygnet Song Circle
Little Boat Choir
Hobart Glee Club
Launceston Choirs
Launceston College Vocal Ensemble
Launceston Ladies Choir
Vox Harmony
Burnie Choirs
Right On Cue
Partners
