NEWCASTLE actress Louise Chapman, who is renowned for appearing in shows with very different styles, is an Australian regional finalist in an international series, World Monologue Games, which has performers talking for five-to-10 minutes about unexpected things that happened to them.
She is one of six finalists in a section called Endurance that features performers from areas of Australia other than Sydney, with that city's performers having their own show. Some other Australian actors appear in a third show that has a mix of performers from this country and from Canada. The finalists shows can be seen on Youtube, with Ms Chapman's show screened tonight from 9pm.
World Monologue Games, which was a hit when it was established a year ago by an Australian performer, Pete Malicki, has performers from 51 countries this year.
Ms Chapman is performing a monologue called It's Easier to Say Clitoris When You're Dead, that was written and directed by Germany-based Fiona Leonard. She notes that the monologue was written for her and is all about finding joy and seizing the day.
Ms Chapman, who became a bachelor of arts at Newcastle University, specialising in performing arts and psychology, has been associated with theatre since she graduated.
She trained in a New York institution, Atlantic Theater Company, and performed in a wide range of shows staged by several companies.
Ms Chapman subsequently was an actor, musician, dancer and writer from 1992 to 1996 with Zeal Theatre Company, a firm which performed shows in Australia and New Zealand, and became a professional actor in 1998 at the Commonwealth Cultural Festival in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur.
She has also worked in Perth, Sydney, Alice Springs and Adelaide, sometimes as a manager.
And Ms Chapman has been based in Newcastle since April, 2019, working as a gallery assistant at Newcastle Art Gallery, and appearing in shows that have had long tours, including the musical The Road to Tibooburra, the comedy Mad Bitches Inc, and is a musician in the Broken Hill show The Broken Hillbillies that has been running for six months.
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