Isobel LONG • 2025 • VCA Design & Production

Isobel LONG

Deputy Stage Manager, The Drowsy Chaperone, VCA Music Theatre, 2025.

Show photography from 'The Drowsy Chaperone' which involved calling 350+ cues, a kabuki drop, french action curtain reveal and an active pre show.

Image: Ben Fon
Set Design: Reuben James
Costume Design: Asha Robinson
Lighting Design: Drew Thompson
Sound Design: Lachlan Jones & Evan Drill
Production Stage Manager: Poppy Gordon

Sound Designer, 'The Other Shore', VCA Acting, 2025.

Show photography from 'The Other Shore' which was underscored by constant ambiences and suspenseful & dramatic soundscapes.

Image: Drew Echberg
Director: Bernadette Fam
Set Designer: Kate Carrington
Costume Designer: Tallula Davis
Lighting Designer: Maddie Garwood

17 Musical Theatre performers in 1920's costumes are positioned in a clump posing with arms outstretched as if to say 'Surprise!' under a red, pink and blue highly saturated lighting state. Red curtains are draped in the background with a large decorative centerpiece lit in blue positioned at the back of the stage, behind the orchestra.

Deputy Stage Manager, 'The Drowsy Chaperone', VCA Music Theatre, 2025.
Show call sound bite of 'Toledo Surprise'.

Image: Ben Fon

A female presenting performer stands upon a circular, red raised platform in the middle of the frame with arms outstretched looking up to the sky in a carthdic manner. Beams of amber lighting illuminate the performer whilst the other actors sit around the platform in low light.

Sound Designer, 'The Other Shore', VCA Acting, 2025.
Cracking of the world sound bite.

A climactic moment of play which saw the world of the 'other shore' crack open in efforts to release the anguish and pain of the characters.

Image: Drew Echberg

A female presenting actor stands in the centre of a red, cricular, raised platform whilst 5 actors lie on the platform at her feet with black dots stuck to their faces. They all face a male presenting actor who stands in the foreground of the frame with his back facing to the audience. The platform and the man are bathed in warm light whilst the background seeps into darkness. Stockings filled with fluff forming a round shape hang from the ceiling. 3 of the stockings that hang above the platform are illuminated.

Sound Designer, 'The Other Shore', VCA Acting, 2025.
Ambience and transitions sound bite.

Atmospheric and suspenseful sound scapes where used throughout the play to create a sense of abstracted time and place whilst exacerbating drama.

Image: Drew Echberg

A male presenting performer dressed in drag with a yellow wig stands to the right of the frame posing with a popped left knee and puffed out chest as they removed their jacket. 3 beams of amber, golden and blue light illuminate a clump on performers strewn across the floor leaning up against a circular, red raised platform which is partially seen on the left side of the frame. A hemp rope is placed on the floor in the foreground of the image.

Sound Designer, 'The Other Shore', VCA Acting 2025.
The Club sound bite

A euphoric club scene turn nightmare sequence that simultaneously served as a moment of escapism from the non-naturalistic and ambient world of the 'other shore'.

Image: Drew Echberg

Assistant Stage Manager, 'Everybody', VCA Acting, 2025.

Image: Drew Echberg
Director: Isabella Vadiveloo
Set Designer: Stephanie McNally
Costume Designer: Char Lee
Lighting Designer: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez
Composer & Sound Designer: Caoimhe Sian Harkin
Vision Designer: Jett Manzie

Isobel (she/her) is an emerging, Melbourne based stage manager and sound designer, graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production). Leading her practice as a stage manager and developing sound designer with a passion for storytelling and discovery, Isobel revels in being part of realising a collaborative creation. Combining her knowledge from both practices in audio and stage management, Isobel enjoys being able to apply skills from both departments to constructively contribute to a production process.

Isobel’s credits include Deputy Stage Manager; The Drowsy Chaperone (VCA Music Theatre, 2025), Sound Designer; The Other Shore (VCA Acting 2025), Audio Crew; Marriner Group (2025), Stage Management Secondment; MJ the Musical (2025), Radio Mic Technician; Curtains (VCA Music Theatre, 2024), Assistant Stage Manager; Everybody (VCA Acting, 2024).

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)

Sound, Stage Management

isobel.long21@gmail.com

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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)

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