ALICE BISHOP is an actor, director, writer, producer, and designer for television, film and theatre.
As well as being Artistic Director with le poulet terrible and most recently writing and directing I Shot Mussolini, which premiered at La Mama, she was a co-creative producer and resident director for ITCH Productions, directing Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré at fortyfive downstairs, and Catalpa (Greenroom nomination for Best Director). Other theatre credits include Love Lies Bleeding for Redstitch, Much Ado About Nothing for Essential Theatre, The Ballad of Reading Gaol - special event at The Old Melbourne Gaol, Cuckoo by Jane Miller at fortyfivedownstairs for 15 Minutes From Anywhere, Mud and Blood by Meg McNena, and Peter Quilter’s Mrs Vincent Price.
Writing credits include: comedy team The Sheryls, ITCH Productions’ Bodybag and The Butterfly Catcher, and co creating A Stranger in Town with Essential Theatre at fortyfivedownstairs. Alice has penned several short films, including Red Shoe Time, Hayes Code Kiss Films, and written and directed shorts produced by Verve Studios, including Invisible Faith and We Are To Play The Game Of Death. Currently she has two feature films in development.
Alice has just completed post-production on the music documentary You Met Me in a Bluestone Room, and is in post for the short film Dawn – both of which she wrote and directed, and both with Bay 16 Pictures, a new Geelong based film production company.
In 2020 Alice founded Just Nice People Productions with Lauren Bailey and Susan Earl with whom she has produced, written, directed and performed in the Classic web series, that has garnered laurels on the international festival circuit. JNPP have recently completed filming their sci-fi Classic series which is doing the rounds on the international film festival circuit.
Alice has worked as a costume designer for the 7 Network, and was production designer on the independent feature film Some Happy Day, currently screening on SBS on Demand.