LILIANA MACARONE

This is Liliana’s tenth year working with QSE, where her credits include: Julius Caesar (Brutus), The Penelopiad (Penelope – Matilda Award Nomination), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Tartuffe (Cleante), The Rover (Moretta), Henry IV Part I (Henry IV), Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in rep (Gertrude), The Winter’s Tale (Camillo), Twelfth Night (Orsino), Macbeth In The Dark (Ross/Witch2), The Blood Votes (Mrs Reibe/Mrs Patterson), and Shakespeare’s Shorts (Bottom, Mercutio/Friar, Polonius/Horatio, Macduff/Witch2/Murderer).

A singer, musician and songwriter, she composes music for QSE productions and plays in the QSE Band, has served as Music Director on The Rover and Shakespeare’s Shorts and was the singing coach for The Penelopiad.  Other Music Director credits include: Ladies Write Letters of Lemony Love (Melbourne Fringe, Dir. Maeve Hook), The Monster’s Mother (Anywhere Festival, Dir. Angela Witcher).

A freelance facilitator of drama, voice, and Shakespeare, Liliana is currently working towards becoming a Designated Linklater Teacher.  As a prison-arts practitioner, she worked for years on QSE’s Shakespeare Prison Project and has been a guest of Shakespeare Behind Bars programs in both Michigan and Kentucky, USA. She has also facilitated workshops for at-risk youth, such as QSE’s Youth Justice Projects and holiday programs (including abridged versions of Twelfth Night and Macbeth), and Youth Shakespeare Project with Brisbane Youth Service. 

Other facilitating for QSE includes: Young Actor’s Shakespeare Intensive, Shakespeare for Kids, Theatre Games with QSE, and Raising Voices. Liliana has also been a facilitator for Access Arts, InsideOutside Theatre Company, a tutor at the University of Queensland, and a Regional Education Faculty member of Sweet Adeline’s Australia, where she is a performance coach of barbershop choruses and quartets from around the country.  Liliana is happy to be an Audio Describer of live theatre for Vision Australia.