Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV and radio broadcaster.
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| Born | Rosebud, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | TV broadcaster, writer |
| Website | www |
Career
She 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.
Tracee 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. 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[3] 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,[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]
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.
Writer
In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[11] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.