Captured out of a new friend’s car window in 福井市 (Fukui, Japan), 2022.

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I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Bidjigal and Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land and waterways on which I live and work. Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.
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Nicole Pingon (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, theatre maker and artist facilitator working across live performance, installation and digital mediums. Expanding across and between mediums, Nicole's practice tends to be collaborative, curiosity-led, and process-driven, with a focus on new work.

Most recently, Nicole directed Little Eggs Collective's Moon Rabbit Rising for Belvoir 25A, which won three Sydney Theatre Awards. Other directing credits include: Blush Opera’s new Australian opera, Chop Chef for Riverside Theatres Parramatta (co-directed with Kenneth Moraleda), Songs of the Sirens for Bondi Festival, Shopfront’s Mums Tell Dad Jokes Too (co-directed with Tasha O'Brien), and Spider In My Soup for Bondi Feast. 

Nicole has created audio works for The Wheeler Centre, Constellations and is the sound designer of Bad Taste, an SBS podcast. In 2022, they presented a participatory performance score as part of Temporary Position’s De-Choiring series at Phoenix Central Park. They are currently part of the band for Hennessy Rose.

Between 2018-2022, Nicole worked at Shopfront Arts Co-op as their Admin and Systems Coordinator, and currently sits as the Chair of their inaugural CALD Advisory Panel. Nicole is a member and collaborator of the Little Eggs Collective and Ninefold Ensemble, and is a proud teaching artist.

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At the moment, I’m predominately working across theatre, live performance, movement, and audio, as a collaborator, devisor and teaching artist. Sometimes this looks like directing, dramaturging, being a body and brain in space, or simply championing new work and new ways of working. Coming from a background in music and dance, everything I do is inevitably rooted in collaboration, exploration, curiosity and creation across forms, discplines, languages and practices.  

Currently, I’m collaborating on a number of new work developments ~ a tender and expansive part of process that I love being part of.

I’m interested in the ever-evovling relationship between time, space and imagination. I’m curious about languages (spoken, visual, sonic, gestural etc.) and the ongoing act of translation. I’m enjoying psychogeography, walking, and conversation as practice. I’m finding great joy in collecting the juicy little tomatoes that have popped out of the compost in my backyard. 

That’s all from me for now, but I really do love a chat, and recommendations for books, readings, events, workshops, films etc. Get in touch :-)

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Admiring the sunrise at Jerusalem Bay, on Dharug land, 2019.



A joyfully windy adventure at 直島 (Naoshima Island, Japan), 2022.

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selected projects

please email for full CV and bio


[theatre and live performance]
As Director / Co-Director 
Sydney Theatre Awards 2022:

As Associate Director
As Assistant Director
  • The Lies We Were Told (dir. Natalie Rose) | Shopfront Arts Co-op/Monkey Baa | ARA Darling Harbour (2023)
 
As Dramaturg
  • Papered (in-development) | Blush Opera | The Joan Sutherland Theatre (2023)

[audio]

[installation and others]

[some panels and some press]

[residencies and artist development programs]
I’ve been part of a number of artist development programs, with a focus on mentorship, process and professional development. These include, but aren’t limited to working with organisations such as Shopfront Arts Co-op, Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, Belvoir St Theatre, The Wheeler Centre, PACT, National Theatre of Parramatta, Kings Cross Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, CuriousWorks and Q Theatre. These places, people and opportunities have shaped me into the artist and collaborator I am today.

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我不记得这是从中国哪里照的! /
Somewhere in China from a trip back in 2016.



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okay, that’s all I’ve got to updating for now. thanks so much for visiting! 

please get in touch to collaborate: 
nicole.pingon@gmail.com