As director: Antidote for the Melbourne Fringe Festival (High Commendation), The White Album Concert, Sydney Opera House (2007), Snippet by Willoh S Weiland (2006); The Europeans by Howard Barker for Darlinghurst Theatre – In The Raw (2005); Another Kind of Listening (poetry by Richard Frankland and music by Monica Weightman) for La Mama (2005); Widows by Ariel Dorfman (2005) and Savage/ Love by Sam Shepard (2003) for Theatre Nepean (UWS); I Am Yours for Red Stitch Actors Theatre (2005); Plum for Dancing with Strangers (2005); and The Castle (2002), Zoo Story, and The Dumb Waiter (2003) for The New Theatre.
As assistant director: Burning Embers for Chamber Made Opera (2007); Fat Pig for the Sydney Theatre Company (2006); A Single Act (2006) and Hardlines (2004) for the Melbourne Theatre Company; Recital (Malthouse Theatre), Phobia (National tour), and The Charcoal Club (International Indigenous Festival) for Chamber Made Opera (2005); Besen Family Artists Program recipient 2005 in Direction on The Ham Funeral and The Journal of the Plague Year for the Malthouse Theatre.
As dramaturge: STC/ SMH Patrick White Playwrights Award 2007/ 2008; 2008 national Playwriting festival for Playwriting Australia; STC/ SMH’s Young Playwright Awards 2006; site staged at the Old Melbourne Gaol (New Work Outstanding Direction nomination, Green Room Awards 2007); Senseless for X-Machine at 45 Downstairs (2006/7); Miriam and the Monkfish for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2006); Short & Sweet Festival play-reader (2005 - 2007).
Rochelle is a graduate of UWS (Nepean) in Performance (2000) and the VCA in Directing (2004) where she directed Tattoo and was the recipient of the Jim Marks and the Yvonne Taylor Scholarships. Rochelle has also worked as an actor in TV and film, theatre and opera, most recently appearing in Richard Foreman’s Zomboid (2006).
