A white woman stands against a white wall. She has tousled brown hair with blonde accents and a short fringe. She is wearing a lot of gold jewellery - on her ears, in her nose, and around her neck. On the lapel of her bright pink long sleeve button up shirt, she wears a rainbow flag pin. She looks down the lens of the camera, smiling widely with her teeth. She has dimples, and her eyes are crinkled from her smile.
Photograph by Alex Kwong.
Annabel Matheson
Associate Artist (she/HER)
Annabel Matheson is a Kaurna-based queer performer, facilitator, and arts worker. She completed her acting training at Flinders University Drama Centre, graduating with First Class Honours and a University Medal in 2014, and holds a Masters in Arts and Cultural Management from the University of South Australia (2022).
Onstage credits for State Theatre Company South Australia: The Bleeding Tree (Theatre Republic), Terrestrial, Machu Picchu (Sydney Theatre Company), and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. More on stage credits include: Grug and Grug and the Rainbow (Windmill Theatre); Bluey’s Big Play Australian National Tour (AKA Productions); Angelique (isthisyours?); Late: A Cowboy Song (Ladylike Theatre Collective) and; Eurydice (Foul Play Theatre).
With her collaborator Eliza Oliver, she is co-founder of Ladylike Theatre Collective, a queer-feminist theatre company, so far creating and presenting six seasons of work across Adelaide and Sydney since its inception in 2016. Ladylike projects have been supported by Carclew Youth Arts, Helpmann Academy, ActNow Theatre, ATYP, Belvoir, and in 2019 Ladylike were the State Residents at State Theatre Company SA. Annabel’s work with the company includes producing, performing, developing, and directing.
Annabel has worked on the development of new works with Windmill Theatre, ActNow Theatre, Tiny Bricks, and State Theatre Company SA, as well as a raft of independent artists, and was a part of the first group of RUMPUS Theatre members. Annabel has worked as an acting tutor, director, and facilitator for young people and adults for over ten years, with NIDA and NIDA Open, Scotch College, Adelaide College of the Arts, State Theatre Company SA, ActNow Theatre, SAYArts, and more. She also worked with Feast Festival as a Program Assistant on the 2022 festival. Annabel will return to the stage for Wicked Good’s Stateside production of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone in November of 2023.