Our second print edition is about to make its way across Australia! As we prepare, we bring you our showcase of talented emerging arts journalists who have come together to share some incredible stories about the new generation of composers, performers, and arts administrators.
Hailing from the Sunshine Coast, soprano and writer Bridget O’Brien has studied a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. She has written and sung since near-infancy, and through her tertiary studies has discovered ways in which her passions are able to complement each other. From plugging and reviewing con-centric events for The Griffith Collective, to being a featured runner-up in CutCommon’s 2017 Young Writer of the Year Competition, Bridget started writing as a regular CutCommon contributor in April 2018. Since, she’s enjoyed channelling her opinionated verbosity into profiling artists through interrogation, and offering her voice of criticism.
Since 2017, Bridget has taken the role of PR Media and Marketing Director of fresh, independent company Brisbane City Opera. Alongside exploring how to promote the unique and the young, she has worked in assistant director capacities, committed to enlivening Brisbane’s arts and culture scene with her take. Bridget has performed in the chorus of a variety of productions across the Brisbane scene, and as a featured soloist in events through the Sunshine Coast.
Through the next few phases of her education, she hopes to engage further performance study, work in direction apprenticeships across Europe, exploring creative writing in the contexts of scripts and libretti, and continue to spotlight the best of the performing arts through her writing.
Read Bridget in our print issue #2! You can catch up on our inaugural print magazine, which is now available online only for a limited time.
