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Stephanie
Jack

Stephanie Jack is an Australian Singaporean actor and writer. She has lived in six countries and on board a yacht. She is a graduate of Harvard’s American Repertory Theater Institute, and the creator of 'Mixed Up', a YouTube series exploring mixed race identity. Her artistic work is propelled by a keen desire to bridge cultural divides. Having returned to Tasmania during Covid-19, Stephanie is finding island life immensely rewarding. More about her can be found at www.stephanie-jack.com

Tasmanian Voices

Under a high sky

by Stephanie Jack

15 Jul 2021

Tasmania gives me this freedom of taking a break from the human world. You can go somewhere, and even if you’re still in your human drama, being melancholic on the beach, the beach is bigger, the wind is bigger. It just puts you in your place...

The Arts

The freedom to be fully strange

by Stephanie Jack

20 May 2021

Les petites annonces is French for means “the classifieds”. “It’s where you go to ask for your lost cat,” says Edith Perrenot. “Ordinary facts, big love, big despair, the trashy, the poor, the lost.”

People

Clipped wings

by Stephanie Jack

28 Dec 2020

Island dwellers often talk about the way Tasmania slowly, softly enfolds its visitors, keeping them here longer than expected, sometimes forever. It took a global pandemic for me to experience this firsthand. For a decade, Tasmania was just a place I retreated to when I needed respite from my peripatetic lifestyle. During those years I lived in Bristol, Boston, Moscow, Los Angeles, Singapore, London and Shanghai, pursuing university degrees, an acting career, and ill-fated relationships.

Tasmanian Voices

City girl, roadkill collector

by Stephanie Jack

10 Dec 2020

Sonja Cook defies easy definition. She is a fashion designer turned “roadkill collector”. A Slovakian city girl, and a Tasmanian with a fondness for self-sufficient rural living. We meet on a sunny Sunday morning at Sonja’s house in Franklin, where bushland opens out into undulating green fields. Her quaint, 1.5ha property is home to chickens, cows, a brightly-painted wooden caravan, fruit trees, vegetable patches, and flowers in vibrant full bloom. It feels like Europe.