A head and shoulders headshot of Nescha who is smiling and has her head slightly cocked to one side. She has long dark hair flowing over her shoulders and is wearing small gold hoop earrings with a black top and a short sleeved cream cardigan.

Photograph by Alex Kwong.

Nescha Jelk

Associate Director (she/HER)

Nescha graduated from the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2010. For the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Nescha has directed Euphoria (co-pro with Country Arts SA), Single Asian Female, Jasper Jones, Terrestrial, Switzerland, Straight White Men (co-pro with La Boite), Gorgon, Volpone, Krapp’s Last Tape in the ‘Beckett Triptych’ (2015 Adelaide Festival, 2016 MOFO), Othello, Jesikah and Random. Other directing credits include How to Kill Your Husband (State Opera South Australia), Meet Me At Dawn (Gavin Roach Productions), Yerma (Foul Play), Sepia (RiAus/Emily Steel), Hamlet (Actors Folio), Alice and Peter Grow Up (Milk Theatre Collective), As One (Tiny Bricks) and Deluge (Tiny Bricks in association with Brink for the 2016 Adelaide Festival).

Nescha was the Resident Director for the State Theatre Company of South Australia between 2013-16 before co-founding RUMPUS in 2019, an artist-run venue that supported the creation and presentation of independent theatre by South Australian artists. She was also the Artistic Associate of Floods of Fire (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Festival and the University of Adelaide), a large-scale participatory weekend-long event in the 2024 Adelaide Festival.