User:Melizma06/FAST (Festival of Australia Student Theatre)

FAST (Festival of Australian Student Theatre) is a festival that aims to bring together Australian student theatre companies to showcase the work of emerging theatre artists and practitioners. The festival also features independent student theatre companies formed by current university students or recent university graudates.

FAST is run is association with La Boite Theatre Company and the Creative Industries faculty of the Queensland University of Technology.

About
FAST is a non-profit organisation established by Ben Schostakowski and Belinda Locke. Both Ben and Belinda are recent graduates of the Queensland University of Technology's drama degree, and were formerly involved in student theatre through Vena Cava Productions, the student theatre company of the Queensland University of Technology. Initial discussion about the festival were begun by the 2008 Vena Cava Productions executive committee.

As part of the company's relationship with QUT, the FAST festival team includes primarily QUT undergraduate students who are able to undertake roles within the festival to obtain credit towards their Creative Industries or Drama undergraduate degrees.

When
The inaugural festival was held from 17th - 19th September 2010, in the Roundhouse theatre of the historical La Boite Theatre company in Brisbane, Queensland.

The dates for the 2011 festival are yet to be announced.

2010 Programme
In 2010, FAST festival presented the following theatre companies and performances from around Australia:

24 Hour Play Project
In 2010, the University of Melbourne, Theatre Incubator and Transition Theatre presented the 24 Hour Play project, which brought together groups of students involved in the festival to write, rehearse and perform 5 brand new plays in the space of 24 Hours.

Supporters and Sponsors
FAST is run in association with:
 * La Boite Theatre Company
 * Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries faculty
 * Vena Cava Productions
 * miscmedia