Profile

Penne Thornton is a multidisciplinary creative producer working across performance, exhibitions, public programming, artist development and community engagement.
Penne has a research focus on collaborative, place-based practice and is an advocate for social justice and equity in the arts.





Image by Leiko Manalang-Frequin



Email
pennethornton(at)gmail.com


Select Projects

>A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong
>Duwa
>Anything & Everything
>WiCLA


Platform Arts Projects

Performance
>Death Warmed Up
>Texture of Absence
>Paradise Lots
>Slip
>The Director
>Bodies of Water
>Maps of the Heart
>Pictures and Ghosts

Artist Development >Neighbourhood LAB
>infinity ensemble
>金山 婆 Gold Mountain Wife
 

Publications

> Collective Mothering
> Local Word

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Maps of the Heart

Performance

Written by Abraham Herasan, Sila Toprak, Keak Joak.
Directed by Dave Kelman.
Composed by Callum Watson.
Perfomed by Abraham Herasan, Alphonse Mulashe, Beckham (Bach) Dong, Eto Claudine, Fiston Baraka, Irene Bakulikira, Keak Joak, Nina Untivero, Sila Toprak and Ali Hosseini

Platform Arts, Djilang, Geelong
Produced by Penne Thornton

Images by Sarah Walker
2022North Youth Theatre

MOTH tells the stories of eight characters from different times and different countries based on the real experiences of cast members and their friends and families. Interwoven with these stories are the actors’ reflections on who they are, where they have come from and how it feels to be living in a society that struggles to embrace difference. 

Written by the ensemble and told through fast-paced, funny theatre, MOTH spans Congo, Philippines, Iran, Vietnam, Turkey, Rwanda and Tanzania and moves from the 1960s to the present day. 

 I acknowledge the life systems of land, river, sea and atmosphere and the Waddawurrung people’s as the First People’s on whose sacred Country I live. This land was never ceded. I give respect to all First Nations people’s, their elders and rising generations