Xanthea O’Connor
Xanthea O’Connor is the Wheeler Centre’s Programme and Special Projects Producer. She has previously worked in music and events management and spent a handful of years as an usher at the Wheeler Centre before joining the team in 2021. Xanthea has collaborated on projects as a writer, musician, producer and performer. These collaborations include sound design for Vidya Rajan’s Respawn (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2022) and co-creating the metafictional theatre project The Lizard is Present (Melbourne Fringe, 2019). Xanthea is a graduate of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing program, a Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence (2019) and a Glenfern Fellow (2019).
An evening of readings and performance to launch Next Chapter fellowship recipient Anne-Marie Te Whiu’s debut poetry collection, a defiant celebration of her Māori lineage, language and culture.
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The Next Big Thing wraps up for 2022 with an evening of readings from this year’s Next Chapter writers.
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