TheimaGen is an Adelaide Based Performance & Entertainment Theatre Company focused on
creation through innovation.
TheimaGen comprises of a solid core of
established artists and theatre practitioners.
Justin McGuinness , Nic Mollison , Peter Nielsen.
Peter
Nielsen - Creative Producer,
Technology Artist , Music & Audio.
Peter specialises in the adaptation of new performance technologies
He
has been instrumental in the creation of many Australian works.
Peter has worked extensively for local, National
and International Theatre & Performance companies,
as Technology Artist, Creative Producer,
Composer, Sound Designer,
Electronic Musician & Performer.
Peter was Co-founder and Artistic Director of 4Bux: Progressive Art.
He currently lectures in Electronic Arts & Sound at the University of SA
and continues his work as an electronic musician in Australian dance music group 'HyperSpatial'
Nic
Mollison - Co-Creative Director, Technical Producer, Lighting & Photography.
Freelance
Lighting and Video Designer. Nic has worked for a wide variety
of
theatre, dance and youth arts companies on local, national and international
productions.
Nic has also designed lighting for concerts, festivals, nightclubs
and
visual art installations.
Nic often blends conventional stage
lighting and video design elements, and
aims to
combine these to form a cohesive visual design where lighting and
video
sit equally onstage not to dominate or distract but to draw audiences
into
the story, characters and other worlds. Nic’s interests are in real time video
manipulation, animation and lighting particularly for live performance.
Nic currently lectures at University of SA in lighting, projection + visual theatre
and is co-founder and co-creative director of new media theatre Company TheimaGen.
Justin is a multi-skilled director
who has rapidly proven he has the creative ability and artistic integrity
to become one of the foremost representatives for the arts.
After completing a Bachelor of Design at the University of South Australia majoring in Illustration,
Justin
graduated with Honours from Flinders University Drama Centre as a director in
2004.
In 2004 he worked for a nine-week period with British new media collective Blast Theory
and collaborators the Mixed Reality Lab on I Like Frank in Adelaide
as
part of the Thinkers in Residence initiative and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Justin has directed and designed So, I Killed a Few People… by Gary Ruderman & David Summers,
was assistant director on Brian Friel’s Translations and was the video designer
for
the AFCT 2005 iNSPACE/4bux production of A
Thing Called Snake by Steven House.
Recently Justin has worked as video artist on Honk If You Are Jesus by Peter Goldsworthy & Martin Laud Gray
for STCSA and the Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts and was awarded
an Assistant Director Fellowship on LifeX3 by Yasmina Reza again with STCSA.
He was also director, designer and video designer for the critically acclaimed Norway.Today
by Igor Bauersima, which will tour Nationally through Critical Stages NSW in 2008-09.
