resume

SAF OVACIK

saf.ovacik@gmail.com
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Experience

2018
Freelance copywriter
November 2019 - current.

2018
Writer / Director / Performer - Pigeon Mafia (female comedy duo from Melbourne)
November 2018 - 2020.

2018
Director - Night Terror: Emergence (one woman play retelling 4 short horror stories including Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The Keepsake by Briony Kidd, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Open Window by Saki)
Performed at Bluestone Church Arts Space in Footscray - Melbourne Fringe Festival 
September 2018
 
Panelist at the Emergent Writers’ Festival - Literature as Reclamation
Performed at State Library Victoria
June 2018

Writer & Contributor - West Writers’ Group
Footscray Community Arts Centre Initiative 
February 2018

Director & Writer - Witchoman (short comedy film)
Entered into Tropfest 2018
January 2018

2017
Extra - Wentworth - Season 7
Fremantle Australia

Extra - Neighbours
Fremantle Australia

Extra - Offspring - Season 7
Endemol Australia

2012
Writer & Performer - Just Us But Not Really (a comedic play)
Performed at Trades Hall - Melbourne Fringe Festival 
September 2012

2011
Assistant Producer - Studio A (weekly live-to-air chat show)
Channel 31 - RMITV
January 2011

2010
Production Coordinator - With Tim Ferguson (weekly live-to-air talk show)
Channel 31 - RMITV
July 2010
 
2008
Director & Animator - The Projectionist (short animated film)
Safiche Production
June 2008

Education     
The University of Melbourne - Graduate Diploma of Teaching - 2021
The University of Melbourne - Graduate Certificate of Arts - Creative Writing - 2014
The National Theatre Drama School - Short Course - Introduction to Acting - 2009
Victoria University - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Multimedia - 2008
AFTRS - Short Course - Documentary Filmmaking - 2007

References
Available upon request