COMPANY MANAGER

MARY-ANN VALE is currently the Company Manager of Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. She was a founding member of Tightrope Theatre Co in Sydney and worked at Griffin Theatre Company at the Stables Theatre in Sydney for 9 years. Her roles there included Board Member, Administration, Membership Secretary, Front of House Manager and Producer of the Sunday Cabaret and the Performers Club. Mary-Ann was awarded "Life Member" at Griffin Theatre Co in 2001 and The Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation (now in partnership with NIDA) in 2000.

Moving to Noosa for 10 years saw her producing  for The Drama Queens and assistant producer and Director for Theatre ‘s'. During that time, she also ran her own business as a Teacher of Acting, personal management to a singer and directed 25 plays including the main productions for The Noosa Long Weekend Festival. Recently she directed the creative arts students at USQ for the Breez Finance Children's Festival 09.

Through Arts QLD she gained grants to attend "Acting for Camera" workshops in Paris in 2005 and The World Conference Shakespeare Master Classes in 2006. Mary-Ann is a Performing Arts - graduate DDIAE (now known as USQ). She worked professionally as an actress in Sydney for 18 years in theatre, TV & film and also produced and directed.