Caroline Meaden

Caroline Meaden is a performer, choreographer, teacher and speech pathologist based in Narrm/Melbourne, and working at the intersection of dance, language and theatre.

She has created, performed and presented work in festivals and venues including Dance Massive, Next Wave, Festival of Live Art, Melbourne Fringe, Keir Choreographic Award Commission, the MEL&NYC Festival, Artshouse, the Substation, Union House Theatre, Northcote Town Hall and Abbotsford Convent. Caroline received a Creative Victoria Creators Fund Grant in 2022, enabling development for her major work, Molly presented by Guild Theatre and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture in 2024. She was Artist in residence at Union House Theatre in 2023, and with her collaboration, Alice Will Caroline (Alice Dixon, William McBride, Caroline Meaden), she was 2024 Director in Residence at Lucy Guerin Inc and Artist in residence at The Australian Ballet. 

Awards include Green Room nominations for Best Performer, Ensemble Performance and Choreography, and a win for Ensemble Performance for Doors Shut (Temperance Hall) in 2019. With Alice Will Caroline she has won multiple Melbourne Fringe Awards and was awarded the Chloe Munro Fellowship in association with Lucy Guerin Inc in 2022.

Caroline’s teaching/choreography appointments include Victorian College of the Arts, Union House Theatre, Yellow Wheel and Transit Dance. As a performer she has collaborated with artists and companies including Phillip Adams Balletlab, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Heaven, Sandra Parker, Nat Cursio Co, Sibylle Peters, Paea Leach, Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy/Triage Live Arts Collective, Reckless Sleepers (BEL/UK), Anna Smith, Malia Johnston (NZ) and Opera Australia. She has worked with New York-based artists Walter Dundervill, Iki Nakagawa and Monica Bill Barnes, and in 2018 was selected from a national callout to perform Merce Cunningham Company repertoire as part of the National Gallery of Australia’s American Masters exhibition, directed by Merce Cunningham Trust stager, Jamie Scott.

Since 2024 Caroline has worked as a paediatric Speech Pathologist alongside her dance practice. She is also a trained audio describer and has directed movement for theatre.