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Maude Davey

Director Maude Davey trained as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1985. She has since worked in theatre, film and television as an actor, director and writer.

She is a founding member of a capella/theatre group, Crying In Public Places (with Anni Davey, Jane Bayly and Karen Hadfield) with which she toured nationally and internationally in their three shows: Crying In Public Places (1989), Jump (1995) and Skin (2000).

Film work includes Mathew Saville's two films, Roy Hollsdottir Live and Noise and the 2009 feature, My Year Without Sex, by Sarah Watts. Recent TV credits include Chris Lilley's Summer Heights High. Maude performs regularly with Finucane & Smith in The Burlesque Hour (and other projects), touring nationally and internationally.

In 2002, she took up an appointment as Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix Theatre Company in Adelaide, where she directed such works as Tough Girls by Melissa Reeves, Checklist for an Armed Robber by Vanessa Bates, Wakaid Girl Lyndhurst Kid by Diat Alferink and Second to None, a large scale, site specific community celebration of the Indigenous and Maritime history of Port Adelaide.

From 2008-2009 she was Artistic Director of Melbourne Workers Theatre. In 2010, she will direct Steak n' Chelsea (working title) with No Strings Attached.