jacksoncastiglione[@]gmail.com

About Jackson Castiglione works both as an independent director and writer and the Artistic Director of Infinity, a theatre company based in Naarm/Melbourne working in collaboration with young people to make performances for youth and adult audiences. He has been working as a director in collaboration with young artists since 2016.

Jackson’s work with Infinity began in 2020 and is focused on a collaboration with 5 core artists (aged 15-23) who co-founded the company. Core company members devise, perform and provide guidance to other young artists working alongside Jackson.

With children and young people, Jackson has co-created, (co)-written and directed an intervention into a suburban dance competition, ‘Rainbow Leprechaun!’ (2015), two seasons of the podcast series ‘Kids Vs Art’ (Arts House 2016-17), adapted French director Mohamed El Khatib’s 'The Dispute' (RISING Festival 2021), 'Anything & Everything' (RISING 2022) and was commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Festival to create a transmedia performance, ‘All Things at Once’ (2024).

Jackson has also Directed and co-written ‘One Night Only’ (2025) made in collaboration with RAWCUS where a different unrehearsed member of the public stars in the lead role in a story about their and many others peoples’ lives. Co-Directed ‘While You Sleep’ (2022) with Kate Neal and Sal Cooper for the Canberra International Music and Co-Directed ‘Show & Tell’ (2018) a short documentary made in collaboration with 10 children winning the award for best film in Education at KUKI children’s international film festival Berlin.

Recently he wrote and directed ‘Monsteen’ a psychologically immersive performance exclusively for teenagers (RISING, 2026). Jackson is also developing ‘Gwai2’ (Ghost) a transmedia performance with cast members from Australia and Hong Kong (OzAsia).

Jackson has been a core member of pvi collective (2000-2010) and a founding member of Field Theory (2010-2020). He is also a dad, partner and teacher.