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OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024
Swift Street is one of eight series selected worldwide in the Canneseries Official Selection in the Short Form Competition. The series will have its world premiere screening in Cannes in April 2024 and is out on SBS Australia / SBS On Demand shortly after.
Note from the artistic direction: “An explosive mix between a thriller, a comedy and an intimate portrait, Swift Street blows everything away with its dazzling energy.”
Music Directing and Performing in cabaret show SEND FOR NELLIE about the legendary jazz and blues singer Nellie Small, at the Merrigong Theatre in Wollongong. Starring Elenoa Rokobaro and Eleanor Stankiewicz, with band. Directed by Liesel Badorrek. Written by Alana Valentine with co-curation by Kween G. Produced by Sue Donnelly & Stuart Davis.
Music from Sydney Theatre Company's production ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’
Music and Sound Design by Maria Alfonsine
Violin - Ben Adler
Double Bass - Lauren White
Cello and Drums - Damian de Boos-Smith
Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone - Maria Alfonsine
Play by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell
and Gordon Farrell
Directed by Paige Rattray
Photos by Prudence Upton
Roslyn Packer Theatre, 2022. Recorded and Mixed at MADBS Composing Palace.
ABS TV Series Wakefield. Trailer music by Maria Alfonsine. Series music by Caitlin Yeo and Maria Alfonsine, featuring Damian de Boos-Smith and Rucha Lange. Produced by Jungle Entertainment, ABC and BBC Studios. Sold to Showtime USA.
Alphabetical Sydney: All Aboard! Family musical by Hilary Bell, Greta Gertler Gold and Antonia Pesenti. At Riverside Theatres 2022 and Sydney Opera House 2023. Musical director and performer. Photos by Robert catto.
Documentary by Mihaal Danziger. Score by Maria Alfonsine and Damian de Boos-Smith.
Conducting Beatles Orchestrated at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Metropolis Touring, 2021.
Songs and lead vocal by Keppie Coutts. Book by Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell. Arranged, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by MADBS Composing Palace. Published by Penguin.
Composed by Maria Alfonsine & Damian de Boos-Smith.
movement performance piece BABELISM: LOVE & MEMORY explores how love has impacted your self worth and what memory you retain from past experiences that affect your 'now' state of being. Devised with Sarah Vickery and Mathias Olofsson. Metanoia Theatre 2016.
Take Two: A Comedy of Errors by Hilary Bell, dir. Stefo Nantsou, actors Lindy Sardelic, Gabriel Fancourt, Mansoor Noor, Bilal Hafda, Libby Asciak, set design Imogen Ross, Riverside Theatres 2019.
For Triangle Screen Music / Hyperactive Music.
Mens Rea
by Raghav Handa
Swinging Safari
by Stephan Elliott
Music Editor on Stephan Elliott ‘Swinging Safari”. Score by Guy Gross.
Without Consent
by Diane Busuttil
“The great end-credits song by Maria Alfonsine is also a bittersweet gem in the film’s crown” UK Film Review
Songs by Phillip Johnston, sound design and incidental music by Maria Alfonsine.
CHIKAS. High achieving Aussie Asian Queer Sydneysiders Jazz and Alex eject themselves from the corporate jungle to pursue their creative freedom. However, when they come out tho their very traditional families as ‘dirty creatives’, they find themselves bearing the weight of a Chinese mother’s guilt. Created by Genevieve Craig, 2018.
Maya.
by Anagha Unni
"The musical score underpinning the performance, by Maria Alfonsine, is more than apt and in its own way contributes to the humour of the exercise.”
— Kevin Jackson's Theatre Diary