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Mos Day

Mos first performed 'on stage', aged 5, in her infant school Christmas concert. Always involved in school concerts and various choirs, Mos began to study dance at the age of 10, and performed in many local church & school fetes and other local community events.

At high school Mos, along with other students, started a drama group and wrote their first play, Fairy Snow and the Seven Misfits, which they went on to performed at the end of the school year. Many plays, concerts and performances later, Mos travelled to Australia.

In 1990, Mos moved to Pt. Noarlunga and began studying at Flinders University. During 1991 Mos co-wrote the musical, Buds, a controversial musical about teenage sexual misconceptions, which went on to be performed during the 1992 Fringe Festival at the TAFE Theatre, O'Halloran Hill.  

                                                          Buds Programme Cover 

              Adelaide Fringe Poster 1992                &                 Southern Fringe Festival

Also in 1992 Mos joined both the Fleurieu Writers Group and the Friendly Street Poets, and by 1993, had become a member of the Flinders University Choral Society, performing in their production One Singular Sensation in Adelaide. 

                                        One Singular Sensation Programme

Being involved in many local theatre productions, Mos had gained a great deal of knowledge about costumes, props, and set design before going on to stage management. Mos also enjoyed the experience of co-directing the Tom Stoppard play The Real Inspector Hound  so much she included 'Theatre Direction' as part of her degree.

After her performance in One Singular Sensation, in 1993, Mos realized how much she had missed singing, and soon joined the cast of London Again,  produced by the South Australian Light Opera Society at the Tower Arts Centre in Adelaide.

                Mos, dressed in green, as one of the 'Ladies of the Night', in London Again

Also in 1993, along with other members of the Fleurieu Writers group, Mos helped create the Noarlunga Theatre Company, specifically to promote local writers and engage the wider community in performance arts. Mos became NTC's Artistic Director in 1994, and later that year, gained her arts degree at Flinders University, majoring in both English and Drama.

The Noarlunga Theatre Company's inaugural production All Is Not What It Appears To Be, which consisted of a collection of three one-act plays, was performed at the Arts Centre, in Pt. Noarlunga during the 1994 'Year Of The Family' Noarlunga Festival.    

Mos adapted and directed one of the 'one-act' plays, Over The Wall, and co-directed the other two plays with NTC's  resident playwright, Rosemary Pou.

             The Programme                             The Arts Centre, Pt. Noarlunga

Mos moved to Pt. Willunga in 1994, after meeting her partner, Des O'Reilly, during the Noarlunga Festival, and became more involved in the world of music and entertainment. Five years later they moved to Aldinga Beach, and this year they will be bringing music and the performing arts to Aldinga Bay, through StageWRite projects at the Aldinga Arts-Eco Village's At The Green events, and the Performance Writing Sessions being presented at the Aldinga Community Centre, starting in April 2009.