Our next Artistic Director is no stranger to a slay or a box of hair dye (but who’s to say those aren’t the same thing). He’s a curator of clings and clangs but also beeps and boops it’s SAM HANELT 🌸🔥
If you had to describe Sam Hanelt (he/him) in one phrase, it’d be “he really tries his darndest”. A Meanjin based creative of perhaps-too-many disciplines, he’s proud to have finally found the answer to “so what ARE you going to do with a business and drama degree?”
His mutli-disciplinary experience has taken him from the QPAC stage, both acting and providing sound design for School2Stage’s “A Ringing In My Ear”, to creating soundscapes for @tristan_niemi ‘s ASK for Anywhere Festival, and then back to acting & textile art as a part of his final show for QUT’s Drama degree, “Under The Bed” (not to forget solely acting in shows such as “Flash”, “Lockdown”, “Paralysis”, & “Harmony”). Combining this on stage experience with a background (and degree!) in business, he aims to provide Meanjin’s up-and-coming creatives with an environment to grow in that’s not only cute, but also slay.
When he’s not finding a new hobby to obsess over for two weeks before abandoning it forever, he’s reliving the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of running a meme account in high school, and hustling hard to keep the #1 spot on Kate Miller-Heidke’s Genius page (it’s true, look it up).
📸 @_chryselreynolds
🎨 @tristan_niemi
🎞✂️ @samhanelt