Students from the Charles Sturt University (CSU) School of Communication will fill several roles in the biennial Catapult Festival for young performers which will launch in Bathurst on Wednesday 23 September. To fulfil requirements for their major work research projects, which are marked by an external examiner for the subject ‘theatre/media workshop’, third-year students in the theatre/media course, Ms Georgia Prince, Ms Stephanie McLelland, and Ms Alice James, are working directly with Ms Kylie Shead, the festival coordinator and creative producer of the Local Stages program at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre. “The Catapult Festival is a truly national festival now, with performing groups travelling from most Australian states and territories to participate,” Ms Shead said. “The contribution of CSU theatre/media students is invaluable. In addition to the third-year students, all second-year students in the subject ‘devised theatre’ contribute in a variety of production roles that form the basis of an assessment for them in that subject.”