Lia Stark
A feminist theatre-maker, collaborator , Budding Social Worker and clown
As a Melbourne-based performance maker, Lia is a brash, angry, femme, unapologetically overt,
sex-positive, community-based artist who, rather optimistically, has decided to
change the world through art.
Recent Projects
Destiny is a Double Edged Sword
La Mama Explorations
Destiny is a Double Edged Sword is an exploration of Destiny - Magic - Ritual - Manifesting - Stars - Memory - Creation - Ceremony.
But ultimately, this was an exploration of Friendship.
Nervous little bean and performer - Lia Stark
All songs written and performed by the incomparable Asli Ibrahim and Monica Ludekens
Facilitation, Reminders to Breathe and Dramaturgy - Brendan Ewing
Support and Thoughtful Provocations - Cynthia Sobraty
Love Letters to Fuckbois (2015 - now)
Collaboratively devised by Lia Stark and Melina Wightman.
Just because you're confident and sassy on the street, doesn't mean you don't need love between the sheets!
Follow these letter punches from the loins of two ladies with too much or maybe too little experience with men, as they question sex, love, and intimacy in the age of tinder. The clit is the pen and the pen is the sword with these tongue-in-cheek Scarlett letters that delve into the neurosis of the female libido, scattered with a symphony of (fore)play on words. Is it just these two lasses who define embarrassment in the boudoir or are we all doomed to be unlucky in love?
“It’s not as much a performance as it is a manifesto”
Jonathan O’Brien
“Outstanding fire and heartbreaking vulnerability” Rhumer Diball
“Wightman and Stark are clever, hilarious and write a damn good letter, just maybe not one you’d like to be on the receiving end on”
Heidi Harrison
“Prepare to get weird/cry if you're wanting to hit this one up”Pedestrian TV.
Not quite white (2019)
An experiment in being QTIPOC and imperfect
Meet the four-piece Bjorkian/Shatner-esque punk band that you never knew you needed.
An group of QTIPOC people from Melbourne discovering what it means to be gay, black and creative in Melbourne and the world!
Follow them on Instagram
@notquitewhiteband
Drag king
Available for Private Hire and MC work
Exploring her Argentinian heritage, this drag king will bring a "DIOS MIO" to any audience's lips.
Sexy. Debaucherous.
This gaucho is delighting audiences across Melbourne and Brisbane.
Red centre festival - werribee
Roaming performance and collaboration
Silliness on the streets.
Created by Amanda Shone x Angela Hickey
Performed and Devised by Brendan Ewing and Lia Stark
Portfolio
creative collaborations
Currently
Hosting FROFFPOT Trivia - Every Tuesday 7pm at Bodriggy Brewery, Collingwood
Not Currently
La Mama Explorations 2022 - Destiny is A Double Edged Sword
NEUROMANTIC - a queer cabaret
Producer and Dramaturg
Melbourne Fringe Festival x CRITICAL MASS 2019
NOMINATED
Matilda Award 2018
Billie Brown Award for Best Emerging Artist
Love Letters to Fuckbois
Metro Arts SOLD OUT 2018
Anywhere Theatre Festival 5/16
Melbourne Fringe Festival 9/16
Asthena Music and Poetry Slam, The Foundry 6/16
Passiona Intersectional Arts Night, The Brightside 11/16
SLUTWalk Cabaret Fundraiser
LOOP Project Space
Drag 2019
Love Letters to Fuckbois Presents: A Podcast Series
10 episode series, Co-Host 9/2017
Festival of Australian Student Theatre
Artistic Director 2017
"Leah Sublime" by Aleister Crowley and Rebuttal
Poetry Reading and Facilitator
People's Pride Festival, 8/2017
Einstein on The Bitch
Writer, Performer and Facilitator
Anywhere Theatre Festival 5/2017
An Act of Intimacy
By Ruby Donohoe
2High Festival Presentation 1/16
Pea Green Doesn't Last Forever
Writer, Director and Performer
Fresh Blood Festival 11/14
Taming of the Shrew - A Grateful Chorus
Collaborator and Director 10/14
Brisbane - A Doing Word - Australian Premiere
By David Burton
Directed by Claire Christian
Lead Performer 3/13
Iphigenia 2.0
By Charles Mee
Directed by Dave Sleswick, Motherboard Productions
Vena Cava Productions
Collaborator, Performer 7/12
Can We Do It?
Devised by Lia Stark and Kitty Gatling
Mainstage Production 5/12
Panels and MC
Art Battle x REACHOUT.com
MC
Melbourne Central
Art Battle Melbourne
MC
Welcome to Thornbury
Woodford Folk Festival 2018/19
Parlour Stage Host
Woodford Folk Festival 2017/18
Parlour Stage Host
Women in Arts and Media Panel 2017
Vena Cava Productions Fresh Blood Festival
Arts and Activism Panel 2016
education and residencies
Betty Grumble's THEATRE AS MEDICINE
Participant
2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts/
Bachelor of Business
Queensland University of Technology
- Graduated with Distinction -
Dicky Beau NIDA Masterclass
Melbourne International Arts Festival 2018
Australian Performing Arts Market - Youth Delegate
Brisbane 2018
Welcome to the Phallaxy
Development
House Conspiracy Resident Artist 2/2017
Improvised Movement NYC
w Stacey Donovan at The Improbably Stage 2015
Brisbane Festival
Theatre Republic Producing Intern 2014
© 2017