Roshelle Fong is a Hong Kong Australian multidisciplinary artist who wrote, directed and produced the Melbourne Fringe award-winning immersive show ‘nomnomnom’ (2018) which she adapted in East Iceland, Shanghai and Sydney as part of Kings Cross Hotel’s Vivid programming.

 

In 2020 Roshelle wrote and performed in the live-streamed interactive show ‘Thirsty!’ for Griffin Theatre’s ‘Griffin Lock-in’ and Google Creative Lab’s ‘Theatre, made for the internet’. She was also in Democracy in Colour's Create Change Fellowship, co-created an online anti-racism card game for schools ‘Zoophobia’ and was a lead artist on Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) and Virtual School Victoria’s ‘In and Out of Worlds’ online theatre program with Yr8 Drama students, which she did again in 2021.

 

In 2021 the interactive theatre show ‘Poona’ which Roshelle co-created with Keziah Warner premiered at the Chinese Museum as part of Next Wave Festival, and she joined MTC’s First Stage writers’ program. She was also a lead artist and digital dramaturg/editor on Union House Theatre's online theatre program 'The Switch' and an artist-in-residence for Regional Arts Victoria’s Creative Workers in Schools program at Thornbury High School. Roshelle also wrote, co-directed and performed in ‘Ruthless World’ which won the Melbourne Fringe Headroom Award supported by RISING.

 

In 2022 Roshelle completed a Master of Theatre (Writing) at Victorian College of the Arts. She was also a writer in Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Scenes, and Assistant Directed one of their main stage plays ‘Laurinda’ by Diana Nguyen and Petra Kalive, working with an AV focus.

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Since winning the Bruntwood Playwriting International Award 2022, she has been developing commissioned plays for the Royal Exchange Theatre (Manchester), Melbourne Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company. She is also an Associate Artist for Melbourne Theatre Company, and a live captioner (respeaking) for AI Media.