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Meet Lifestyle Ambassador Margi Brown-Ash
State Library of Queensland
Lifestyle: a sunshine state of mind explores how we live, work and play in an ever changing Queensland. Lifestyle aims to open up debate, challenge stereotypes, explore the unspoken and acknowledge that our lives revolve around a diversity of perspectives. To help achieve this, a group of nine Program Ambassadors were selected.
On the Couch with Margi Brown Ash
Arts Review
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
In Conversation with Margi Brown Ash, Therapist and Theatre-Maker
Communicating The Arts
How does one become a therapist for artists? That is the first question that popped into my head when I prepared for an interview with Margi Brown Ash. Brown Ash started out as an actor, achieving great success at the beginning of her career, which turned out to be very stressful. “I found that there weren’t avenues, like there might be today, for actors to talk about their feelings or their health,” she says.
The Locals: Margi Brown Ash
The Weekend Edition
As far as local titans of theatre go, Margi Brown Ash is as huge as they come. For decades Margi has been a prominent figure in the Australian theatre scene, and has been a fierce supporter of Brisbane performance since moving to our fair city in 1989. Since that time, Margi has worked with most (if not all) of Brisbane’s major theatre companies, including Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite, the nest ensemble, Zen Zen Zo and many more.
‘We have opportunities here and we can afford to live as artists’
The Courier Mail
It may be double the workload but Brisbane theatre doyenne Margi Brown Ash could not be happier performing two of her plays in one night. Margi, as the actor and writer, is thrilled that Eve and He Dreamed a Train, which were conceived as companion pieces, will finally be performed together.
Why Number 96 was the first and last tv role for Margi Brown Ash
startsat60
Number 96 will be remembered by many for its raunchy sex scenes and its nudity. The Australia soap opera that ran from 1972 to 1977 was set in an inner Sydney apartment block and was the first in the world to feature an openly gay regular character. But for Margi Brown Ash, playing the character Shanie for fourteen episodes, she remembers it as beautiful time in her acting career.
Belonging, Death, and Women in the Arts: In Conversation with Margi Brown Ash
Aussie Theatre
Brisbane’s own playwright and actor, Margi Brown Ash, presents a double bill of her shows He Dreamed a Train and Eve. The first show, He Dreamed a Train, is about belonging. “We had just finished a season of Eve when I got a call saying my brother was diagnosed with a terminal illness,” Margi explains. “I had always wanted to write a work about belonging. I didn’t feel like I belonged in Brisbane back then. I had lived in Sydney, New York, and there was not a lot of art making happening in Brisbane. Not like now. My brother’s diagnosis got me thinking—how do I belong when something comes along and shatters my world?”
Interview with Margi Brown Ash—finding balance: Mental health, wellbeing and female performers
Australasian Drama Studies
Over the past three years, the issue of performing artists' mental health and wellbeing in Australia has increasingly come into the spotlight.
The importance of 'selves-care' on the road
Arts Hub
Fresh from a gruelling national tour of Prize Fighter, theatre-maker and physiotherapist Margi Brown Ash discusses the importance of ‘selves-care’ – collective self-care among an ensemble.
Double bill showcases journey of belonging
Griffith University News
Award-winning playwright, actor and Griffith PhD candidate, Margi Brown Ash, will present a double bill performance of her works He Dreamed a Train and Eve at the Brisbane Powerhouse in late June/July.
It will be the first time the works have been performed as a double bill. As part of her PhD Margi wrote the scripts for He Dreamed a Train and Eve (together with Home, presented by Qld Theatre in 2015). The three plays form a trilogy of belonging and how people find their place in the world.
Dr Margi Brown Ash on Keeping Fabulously Fit
The Equity Magazine
Margi Brown Ash has spent 20 years researching protective practices to help artists live with power and integrity, good health and inner vibrancy.
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Margi Brown Ash: Selfish and Selfless
David Burton’s Mentor Podcast
Margi's remarkable career began as an actress, where she rose to national notoriety with the Aussie cult soap classic Number 96. Since then, she's been a mother, teacher, academic, counsellor, director and arts advocate. Her trilogy of self-created indie shows Eve, Home and He Dreamed A Train have received much acclaim. Shortly after our discussion, Margi was nominated onto the Queensland Theatre Company National Artistic Team under the new leadership of Sam Strong, confirming her as currently one of the most important artists in Queensland. Margi talks about her craft, balancing her family life, and the importance of joy.
Seeing Double: Margi Brown Ash
ABC Radio National
Margi Brown Ash has been making theatre for forty years.
She is currently performing two of her shows back to back—He Dreamed a Train and Eve at Brisbane's Powerhouse.
Joining her on stage is her son—actor, composer and musician Travis Ash.