Jayde is a mother, a wife, a writer, director, dramaturge, lecturer and Artistic Director of Melbourne based theatre company, Citizen Theatre. She has directed & written multiple critically-acclaimed productions through Citizen Theatre including Ripening (2025), Green Room

Award nominated Mara KORPER (2021), Ascent (2018), Nude (2015), and directed Rory Godbold’s Green Room Award nominated play, When The Light Leaves (2019 & 2020). She has also been the dramaturge on numerous musicals, original cabarets and plays.

In 2024 she was commissioned to write the libretto and lyrics for an opera for young people at Victorian Opera, called The Lyrebird’s Voice (dir. Elizabeth Hill-Cooper), which premiered at various venues in 2025. She was the 2020 recipient of Monash University’s Jeanne Pratt Artist

In Residence commission to create a new musical with Peter Rutherford. She was also the Artist in Residence at Gasworks Arts Park in 2022 to create a new work, Ego Machine.

She is a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne where she regularly directs student works, which have included the graduating 3rd year production Sweet Charity (2021) and Morning Melodies concerts at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall (2019,

2022, 2024, 2025).

From the University of Melbourne she holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with a research focus on feminist dramaturgies in music theatre through her writing practice. She also holds a Bachelor of Music Theatre and a Post Graduate Diploma of Arts (Anthropology) from the University of Melbourne.

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