There has always been an audience for compelling stories and skillful storytellers. From campfire tales of heroic adventures and deistic misadventures, to Homer's Odyssey, to the comic book birth of Superman in 1938 and the pre-millenial X-Files of Mulder and Scully, words and pictures that capture our imagination can take on an epic, transcendent quality, becoming part of our cultural consciousne
2 Mar 2007
Venessa Paech
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There has always been an audience for compelling stories and skillful storytellers. From campfire tales of heroic adventures and deistic misadventures, to Homer’s Odyssey, to the comic book birth of Superman in 1938 and the pre-millennial X-Files of Mulder and Scully, words and pictures that capture our imagination can take on an epic, transcendent quality, becoming part of our cultural consciousness.
What these stories also do is create a unique, vociferous strata of sub-cultures where creativity is key.
Venessa has worked as an actor, singer, producer, choreographer, director and writer in New York and Australia. She earned a BFA in Theatre from New York University (Tisch School of the Arts) and an MA in Creative Media from the University of Brighton (UK). She was head of Community for Lonely Planet for several years and is currently Lead Community Manager for Community Engine. She is a published social media scholar and regularly speaks and consults around online communities: clients include Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Live Performance Australia, Ad:tech, Eye For Travel, Media140, Australian TAFE Marketing Association, SitePoint, Social Media Club Melbourne, Print NZ and more. Venessa is the former Editor of Arts Hub Australia.