Girls on Tour Book Club
Girls on Tour is a book club that aims to keep us connected while shining a light on some bad ass women and gender diverse people in the entertainment industry.
Every month your hosts Monique and Briony will talk endless nonsense about our fiction book of the month, and every ten weeks Monique will be joined by a special guest host to chat about specific roles in the industry and their own remarkable careers.
This book club is for those who tour and the ones who are left behind, for lovers of fantasy, music and theatre and for those who find that most book clubs are not accessible to them due to schedule, physical health, chronic illness and/or mental health.
Girls on Tour Book Club
Theatre Lighting Technician Matilda Press || Loud by Tana Douglas
Starting out in the deep end is something our author Tana Douglas and our guest Matilda Press know very well.
Today we are joined by Matilda, who has spent her most recent years touring Australia with some of the biggest musicals to hit the country, predominantly in lighting when not dabbling in props or as a tech swing/mechanist. From Jersey Boys to Moulin Rouge, Hamilton to Phantom of the Opera, not to mention some of the most spectacular outdoor theatre shows right on the iconic Sydney Harbour, Matilda has made a career out of making fantasy a reality.
Together we read the autobiography of the first female roadie, Tana Douglas! As a teenager Tana was the first roadie for a little band called AC/DC, and her journey only gets crazier from there. With a cv packed full of the biggest bands and artists of all times, Tana paved the way for women like us and still to this day is active in not only the industry but in communities uplifting and supporting women in this industry.
While todays chat mostly focuses on Matilda's career, you'd be a fool to not get your hands on a copy of this book and read it for yourself!
Welcome to the Girls on Tour Book Club, a book club that aims to keep us connected no matter how far apart we are while shining a light on some badass women and gender diverse people within the entertainment industry.
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