Tracee Hutchison

Tracee Hutchison
Born
Rosebud, Australia
Occupation(s)TV broadcaster, writer
Websitewww.traceehutchison.com

Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV and radio broadcaster.

Career

Hutchison produced and presented a series on Australian music in the 1980s for Triple J 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]

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 has also been a reporter for The 7.30 Report, hosted the ABC2 Music program DIG TV, and was a fill-in presenter for ABC News Breakfast. In 1986 Hutchison worked on the ABC magazine style television show Edge of the Wedge.[3] She has also been a fill in presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne and ABC Radio Sydney. Her radio career began in Melbourne on community radio station 102.7fm 3RRR.

She wrote a weekly opinion column for the Saturday Age[4] from 2005 to 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,[5] 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.[6]

Hutchison has written on social justice issues,[7][8] environment[9] and indigenous issues,[10] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic[11] performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Writer

In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[12] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

References

  1. ^ Hutchison, Tracee; Triple J (Radio station : Melbourne, Vic.) (1992), Your name's on the door : 10 years of Australian music / Tracee Hutchison, ABC Enterprises
  2. ^ Silverchair Recovery Special on YouTube
  3. ^ "The Wedge" (PDF), Stiletto, 1986
  4. ^ Down and out in Melbourne and Rosebud, By Tracee Hutchison, 12 May 2005, The Age
  5. ^ From raisin' hell to raisin muffins – musicians bare their kitchen selves, 23 November 2002, smh.com.au
  6. ^ Kitchen Capers, By Claire Halliday, 10 April 2007, Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
  7. ^ Time to remember the Tampa debacle, By Tracee Hutchison, 25 August 2007, The Age
  8. ^ No. 06024PT: The forgotten man, By Tracee Hutchison, 22 July 2006, The Age
  9. ^ A possum stares extinction in the face, By Tracee Hutchison, 18 February 2006, The Age
  10. ^ The Long Walk – 'Crying for the place we could become'- The Age 2 June 2007 Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ The Black Arm Band 'Hidden Republic' essay (download PDF) Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ I Forgive Catriona Rowntree Review, 26 September 2005, The Age