Director – Lis Shelley

StageFlight Director & Tutor – Lis Shelley
BArts, Grad Dip (InfoSys), Cert IV Training & Assessment

Lis is a director, producer, filmmaker, editor, designer, actor and tutor with StageFlight. She is also the Venue Manager at The Twyford performing and visual arts and community centre in Merimbula NSW.

She founded Stageflight in 2012 as an events management, film making and drama/film school business.

In 2009 she co-founded Footprint Theatre, a touring theatre company in South East NSW.

Lis has written, directed and performed in plays for the Canberra and Illawarra Short+Sweet Short Play Festivals, StageFlight, Footprint Theatre, Theatre Onset and Spectrum Theatre. She was Festival Coordinator for the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival Merimbula.

She is Co-Founder of Far South Film Inc, an association of screen creatives in the South East Region, and was Director of the Far South Film Festival 2020 – 2024.

Lis has taught theatre and film to children, adults, and people with a disability including drama, digital animation, puppetry, musical theatre and improvisation in the Bega Valley and Snowy-Monaro, and even German language classes using drama techniques. She coordinated and tutored at all of Footprint Theatre’s school holiday Film and Drama Schools for 10 years. She also tutors individual students in audition techniques and public speaking.

Lis works with other arts and community groups and has collaborated with the Cobargo Folk Festival, Moruya River of Art Festival, Candelo Village Festival, Eden Whale Festival, Fling Physical Theatre, Far South Flamenco, En Pointe Far South Coast Dance, Bega Valley Festival as well as the Mumbulla Foundation, Relay for Life and South East Arts events. Lis mentored Borderliners in Delegate for their community theatre project and was the Event Manager for the Eden Marine High Outdoor Movie Nights. She performs role plays with students from the ANU Rural Medical School.

Lis designed the lighting for Patrick Dickson’s Victor Ego or The Brainstorm for O’Punsky’s Theatre and for Footprint Theatre’s Ruby Moon and Back To the Old Selection. She also designed the sound for most of Footprint Theatre’s and StageFlight’s productions.

Following a mentorship with the South East Arts Expand Program, Lis worked on a concept for a site-specific theatre experience on the Far South Coast.

Lis made the short film Perfect Cuppa (2015) and her documentary Connecting with the Earth about dancer Veronica Valderrama was broadcast on ABC TV and Radio, winning Best Film – Documentary at the 2016 Tanja Trop Fest. She made a documentary called Dairy Queen with Hiromi Matsuoka, which screened in 2019. Lis also worked as a Script Supervisor on Lost by Warren Foster Sr and Jane Gordon (2024) and as a data wrangler on The Oudmaker of Narooma (2020). She wrote, directed and edited Seven Ages for the Lights! Canberra! Action! Film Festival (2019) and directed and edited The Secret Gift for En Pointe Far South Coast Dance (2020). She performed in the Victimas web series by Oh’Allmuhrain Films (in post production).

Lis is the Founding Director of web design, consulting & IT training company Nullarbor Consulting Pty Ltd (1997 – present).

Lis holds current First Aid/Apply CPR, Working With Children Check, White Card, RSA and Food Safety certificates.