ming it all in!
How four Flinders graduates are making their mark on the Adelaide theater scene fresh out of student life.
Connor, Ren, Aarod and Melissa are talented and hard-working humans that many current Creative Arts students will recognise. The dedicated group of actors, filmmakers, writers and directors founded CRAM Collective before some of them have even put their graduation caps on! Lucky for our readers who may be staring into the piercing eyes of graduation with fear and self-doubt, the CRAM team has kindly shared their story to inspire us all. Hello creative and inspiring humans at CRAM! Let’s start by talking about what the CRAM Collective is and what it hopes to achieve? CRAM is an arts collective founded by four grads from Flinders Drama Centre. We aim to create new work for young people and redefine what we expect from theatre. We’ve just debuted our first show and we’re about to release a whole season of new shows for 2022. How did the group initially come together? We all met one another at Flinders Drama Centre where we all shared a passion for creating our own work and noticed gaps within Adelaide’s art scene that we wanted to fulfil. Three of us - Aarod, Ren and Melissa were all part of the same year level and had discussed the idea of a theatre company over the years of training. Having seen Connor’s incredible directing work within the program and his love and drive for theatre, we four formed together early 2021, which lead to the creation of CRAM.
12
