| Tracee Hutchison | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 18, 1962 Rosebud, Australia |
| Occupation | TV broadcaster, Writer |
| Website | |
| www.traceehutchison.com | |
Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV & radio broadcaster.
She produced and presented a series on Australian music in the 1980s for JJJ in 1990 – featuring interviews with Australian musicians including Nick Cave, Chrissy Amphlett, David McComb, Paul Kelly and Jimmy Barnes - which became her first book ‘Your Name’s on the Door – 10 Years of Australian Music’ (1992/ABC books).[1]
Ms Hutchison was Talent Producer and scriptwriter for Series 2 and 3 of RocKwiz (SBS TV) and also the series producer of nomad (SBS TV), the program that discovered silverchair[2] in a national demo competition in 1994.
She wrote a weekly Opinion column for the Saturday Age [3] from 2005–2009 and conceived and edited two fund-raising cookbooks for the Mirabel Foundation: Rock Chefs for Mirabel (1992), featuring Australian musicians Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins, Deborah Conway, Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter and Ed Kuepper and their favorite recipes,[4] and Laughing Stock - Comedy Chefs for Mirabel (2007), featuring Australian comedians Eddie Perfect, Tim Minchin, Dave Hughes, Tripod, Corinne Grant, Libby Gorr and Julia Zemiro.[5]
Ms Hutchison has written on social justice issues,[6][7] environment[8] and indigenous issues,[9] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic[10] performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[11] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.