Creative Types With Virginia Trioli on ABC – Creative Types with Virginia Trioli is a new six-part series in which award-winning journalist, broadcaster and unabashed arts fan Virginia Trioli explores the essence of creativity with some of Australia’s greatest artistic minds.
Drawing from all artforms — acting, directing, writing, visual and performing arts — each episode showcases creative Australians at the peak of their talents and tells the story of their journey to the top.
Virginia Trioli has spent her life paying attention to creative Australians and in this series, she features artists and performers at the peak of their powers, and tells the story of their triumphs, their stumbles and why they make the glorious work we love so much.
These are the Aussie creatives who lift us up and have spent a lifetime climbing their own hills of achievement.
They are loved and revered, and their work tells us so much about the nation we have become.
The guests are prolific, influential, and inspiring Australians: prolific writer, Trent Dalton; artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela; beloved star of stage and screen, Marta Dusseldorp; one of Australia’s great filmmakers, Kaytetye man, Warwick Thornton; the comedian’s comedian and Gold Logie winner, Tom Gleeson, and the visual artist who creates strange creatures from the frontiers of science and technology, Patricia Piccinini.
Episode One: Trent Dalton
Literary sensation Trent Dalton has sold over a million books and has adoring fans everywhere, yet he still thinks every day of that 12-year-old boy whose future could have gone so wrong if creativity didn’t “save my life”.
Production credit: An ABC production. Executive Producer Jaya Balendra. Director Stamatia Maroupas. ABC Head Arts, Music and Events Kath Earle.
Creative Types With Virginia Trioli on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 9 April, 2024 at 9.00pm
You can listen to a TV Central podcast with Virginia Trioli HERE
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