Tanya Andrea
Stadelmann


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Tanya is a Swiss-Australian filmmaker and photographer who has been working in Australia and the U.S. for the last 13 years.

Tanya completed her Bachelor of Arts in Film & Television, majoring in Cinematography at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, after which she worked as a freelance photographer and videographer, specializing in Publicity Portraits and Performance Documentation for Sydney's entertainment industry. Her photography has been published in Australia, Switzerland, and Norway and her films have screened at festivals around the world. Tanya has made short films and music videos, worked internationally on features and documentaries and created video projections for theatre productions in Sydney, Melbourne and Pittsburgh.

Tanya loves collaborating with musicians, writers and designers and has worked on several live performance projects from creating projections to music, spoken word and theatre. In 2007 an Australian Council for the Arts funded DVD was released featuring her music videos and photographs. Later that year she teamed up with Melbourne musician and composer Nicole Skeltys (formerly Biftek) to record an album as singer of psychedelic electronic band: The Jilted Brides. In 2008 Tanya and Nicole embarked on a tour performing and attending artist residencies together across North America which she documented with words, photographs and video.

Since Tanya moved to Pittsburgh in October 2008, she has performed at the Andy Warhol Museum with The Jilted Brides, operated video projections for Squonk Opera shows around Pennsylvania and now also teaches film production at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Tanya loves intercontinental travel and having a schnibble with friends. You can often find her exploring new horizons with her cameras and having a good old chinwag with the locals.

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Nicole is an Australian composer and producer who has spent the last 15 years writing songs and soundtracks for film, TV and theatre. Along the way, she has released 11 albums of her own music (including on major labels), and spent all her money on a collection of rare vintage synthesizers that she simply calls ‘The Family’. Her electronic duo B(if)tek (1996-2003) were described as ‘Australia’s greatest electronic music innovators’. As part of B(if)tek, she toured with the Beastie Boys, recorded with legendary TV show Twin Peaks chanteuse Julee Cruise, played sell out shows at the Sydney Opera House, and was nominated for an ARIA, Australia’s equivalent of a Grammy Award. Nicole has written scores in more styles than jellybeans have flavors – from world beats for Lonely Planet TV travel series to chamber music atmospheres for Parisian fashion shows.

Nicole fell in love with Pittsburgh when she first visited here in late 2008 and wished very much she could stay. Thanks to the support of Pittsburgh Filmmakers/ Arts Center, where she is now an artist in residence, that dream has become a happy reality.

In addition to compulsive knob twiddling, Nicole is also compulsively curious and likes to research, write about and present interesting facts, particularly about her new kooky home of Pennsylvania. She has a broad Australian accent that Pittsburgh shop assistants find fascinating.

 

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Scott is a writer and graphic designer originally from Western Pennsylvania and currently living in Pittsburgh. He has designed for a broad variety of media including print, web and video. In 2001 he was the Graphic Design Editor for Facets Literary Magazine. In the same year he animated a short series screened at the Children’s Earth Day Camps at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. Over the years he has worked on a number of freelance design projects including two websites commissioned by Slippery Rock University.

In 2008 Scott graduated from Slippery Rock University with a B.S. in Creative Writing. While at Slippery Rock, Scott was Poetry Editor of SLAB Literary Magazine and collaborated with fellow writing and art students on a project sponsored by The Experimental Printmaking Institute and included in their traveling exhibition called "More Than A Book: An Exhibition of Artists' Books."

After graduation, Scott headed west for the mountains of Montana where he spent a month as writer-in-residence at the Montana Artist Refuge. It was there he struck up a friendship with two Australian artists, Tanya and Nicole, who would later come to Pittsburgh and compose the other two-thirds of Glee Club Productions.

When he is not writing or designing, Scott might be found cooking, watching the Penguins, or snowboarding at Seven Springs.

Nicole Skeltys


Nicole's Portfolio

M. Scott Reagan


Scott's Portfolio