Bryce Ives brings a decade’s worth of experience in the media and performing arts to the various projects he is involved in, providing professional and innovative advice, guidance and drive to projects across theatre, community media, and youth media with the ABC.

Over a relatively short period of time Bryce has managed successful projects across radio, television; print, online communities and social networking, the performing arts and community development.  Bryce has worked primarily with young people both in metro locations and in rural regional and remote Australia, CALD communities and with people with disabilities.

MEDIA IMPACT:

Bryce’s professional experience includes working as the Executive Producer of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Heywire project, the flagship community project of the ABC which engages young media makers across Australia. Heywire produces stories for ABC Radio, ABC TV and online, and stages a yearly youth issues forum for young people in Canberra.

Bryce also spent a number of years as General Manager, and is now President of the Student Youth Network. SYN has shown that young people’s lives can be positively changed through ownership and participation in a community media organisation. SYN offers a unique mix of media making, training and hands-on management opportunities that empower young people. SYN has become an excellent example of what young Australians can achieve on their own terms.

Bryce was the Executive Producer of a number of youth television programs and initiatives for the Australian community television sector including the award winning Pluck TV, SYN TV the first daily program to broadcast live to air in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide and simulcast live on radio. The Australian Newspaper in 2004 commented that “Ives represents a generational shift in how media is being produced and managed”

Bryce has also fronted a range of television and radio programs including Dawns Crack (C31 Melbourne and Geelong), Pluck TV (C31 Melbourne and Geelong); Buskerma (C31 Melbourne and Geelong; and Foxtel); The Roaming Couch (C31 Melbourne and Geelong; and Foxtel) and Race around the Corner (ABC TV)

He has presented radio programs on ABC Radio across Australia, 3RRR, SYN Fm and 3BBB Ballarat.

For five years Bryce sat on the national Board of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, a body which represents the 300 community radio stations in Australia, and is regularly in demand as a media lecturer and commentator. He is a former board member of Express Media and a former chairman of the National Youth Media Network.

PERFORMING ARTS WORKS:

Bryce directed the Australian Premiere season of Call Girl the Musical by Tracy Harvey with Doug MacLeod. The season starred Alan Fletcher from Neighbours and featured a cameo phone call from Bert Newton. He also recently directed a sell-out season of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys at Cromwell Road Theatre.

He directed theatre productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Witches of Eastwick for the Geelong Lyric Theatre Company, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Melbourne Musicals, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Ballarat Begonia Festival, Once on this Island for Westbourne Grammar School, Tangled up in Blue, The Black Book and Karen for Theatre Movement.

Bryce was one of the driving forces behind Theatre Movement Inc, contemporary Australian theatre based in Ballarat. He also worked a Drama Coordinator at Westbourne Grammar School.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

Bryce is a highly regarded public speaker and master of ceremonies of major events. He has hosted the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Awards on three occasions, the Annual Antenna Awards for Australian Community Television on two occasions, the Ballarat Carols by Candlelight on three occasions, the Portable Film Festival Symposiums and many other events.

Bryce has presented papers and sessions at many conferences including The Australian Communications and Media Authority Conference, The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Conference,  This is Not Art Conference – Newcastle, The Emerging Writers Festival, The National Ethnic Multicultural Broadcasting Council Conference, The Department of Education Online Conference,  Australian Rotary Club Conference, YACVIC Conference and many more.

Bryce has received numerous awards including Young Citizen of the Year for the City of Ballarat, Television Producer of the Year for the CBAA Awards, Radio Program of the Year for the CBAA Awards.