I have had amazing opportunities to work with great performance makers both in Australia and internationally as an actor, singer and collaborator. Here are a few of the productions I have taken part in and some of the wonderful people I have worked with:
Singer
Oblique Strategies – re-imagining the songs of Brian Eno – with Robert Stephens, Caitlin French and Elissa Goodrich, various venues 2018 -2020
Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne– with Elissa Goodrich 2017
Schmaltz – Curated by Daniel Schulsser, Malthouse Theatre 2016
Something Like A Kiss – with Robert Stephens, Arts Centre Melbourne 2014
Lolo and Berto – with Robert Stephens, Andrew O’Grady and Emil Coutts-Kidd, Butterfly Club and Open Studio 2011 – 2012
The Red Dress Show – with Anastasia Russell-Head, La Mama 2011
The Lolo and Lulu Revue – with Tirese Ballard, Robert Stephens, Andrew O’Grady and Peter Vadiveloo 2007 – 2010
The Teapot Ensemble of Australia – with Karen Berger, Carolyn Connors, Kate Neal and David Adamson, 2005 and 2009
BIG – with Amanda Armstrong, Melbourne Fringe 2001
BeLonging – with Belinda Moody and Felicity Provan, La Mama 1998
Lush Life – with Clare Shannon and Andrew O’Grady 1997-1998
Dangerous Divas – with Santha Press, Melbourne International Arts Festival 1998
Astra Choir -1994 to1997
Bottlenecked – with Amaara Raheem, Karen Berger and Sarah Wilmot at Melbourne Museum, 2017
Actor/Singer/Crossartform Performer
Bottlenecked – with Amaara Raheem, Karen Berger and Sarah Wilmot (as part of Elevate1 a global day of Performance, Interventions and Think Pieces in elevators all over the world), Melbourne Museum 2017
Fragments – performed and devised with Elissa Goodrich, directed by Margaret Mills, La Mama 2017
Death At Intervals – with Colleen Burke, La Mama 2012
Bremen – directed by Michael Camilleri, Melbourne Fringe 2005
The Now Hour – I and II – directed by Michael Camilleri, Melbourne Fringe 2004
Invisible Cities – with Elissa Goodrich 2001
Quartet – directed by David Symons, performed with Bernard Caleo, La Mama 2000
Night on Bald Mountain – directed by Suzanne Kersten, Theatreworks 2000
Comedy of Errors – directed by Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Suzanne Kersten 1999
Marriage Blanc – directed by Suzanne Chaundy, The Mission at Napier Street Theatre 1994
The Benevolent Father – directed by Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy, Napier Street Theatre 1994
Ask for the Captain – Handspan, Arts Centre Melbourne 1993
The Crossing – Handspan, Melbourne International Arts Festival 1992
Reviews and Testimonials:
“Susan’s voice is an extraordinary instrument and her intelligence as an artist drives continual experiment. She is bold, far seeing and sings like a monster and an angel.” Michael Camilleri, 2017
“Breath-taking… Bamford gives a full-blooded and intense performance…gripping and totally absorbing.” Quartet, Helen Thompson,The Age, 2000
“Susan Bamford is superb…mesmeric…engrossing” Quartet, Jonathon Marshall, Inpress, 2000
“the glorious and often perturbing voice of Susan Bamford…” Mariage Blanc, Melbourne Star Observer, 1995
“Susan Bamford lashes out with some very nutty cadenzas” Mariage Blanc, Inpress, 1995
“Susan Bamford is superb…” The Benevolent Father, The Melbournian, 1994
