Roslyn Oades is an Australian actress, puppeteer and theater maker. Her acting work includes on iconic Australian TV shows ''

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'' as a guest actor, and a two year stint on the 47-time Logie Award-winning show ''

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'' as Kylie Burton. Her character in ''Home and Away'' died from a drug overdose while in custody. She also played Remy in ''

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'' from 2010 to 2014. Oades has been described as one of Australia’s leading documentary theatremakers, noted particularly for her work pioneering headphone verbatim techniques where actors near simultaneously speak the recorded words of real people as they listen to them. Her work has been described as being like a documentary film-maker or investigative journalist, where she embedded herself in a community to develop source material for a work. The development of her headphone theater techniques started from observing them as a drama exercise in a workshop run by director Mark Wing-Davey. She has recently departed from headphone verbatim work, moving towards works created through soundscapes, citing

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and

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's work ''The Murder of Crows'' as formative influences. Her audio-scripted performance work ''Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday'' received the

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for outstanding writing for the Australian Stage and in 2019 Oades received a special Green Room Award for Technical Achievement in theatre. Her work has also been nominated for

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and NSW Premiere’s Literary Award. Three of her works have been published as a compilation titled ''Acts of Courage'' by

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, including Stories of Love and Hate (made in response to

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through interviews with 65 people over a two-year period) 'Fast Cars and Tractor Engines', and 'I'm Your Man'.

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