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Carly Sheppard is a cross-disciplinary performance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) whose work negotiates across dance and theatre performance, sculpture, drawing, voice, and installation. Carly’s recent performance credits include Considerable Sexual License (Joel Bray Dance), Anthem (Performing Lines/Arts Centre Melbourne), and Love (Cornelius and Dee). Carly received a Green Room Award for Production In Experimental Theatre for her work Crackers N Dip With Chase N Toey, a Green Room Award nomination for Performance for Crackers N Dip With Chase N Toey. Carly received a Green Room Award for Performance in Independent Theatre for Love by Dee and Cornelius, and a Green Room Award Nomination for Performance in Theatre Company for Anthem.

Kamarra Bell-Wykes (Yagera and Butchulla) is a playwright, director, dramaturge, devisor, facilitator, performer, creative producer, program curator, community developer, and education consultant. Kamarra’s transformative First Nation’s practice is highly sought after across the performing arts, community, health, education, and justice sectors. Kamarra is currently an Artist in Residnece at Malthouse and her title credits include Because The Night (Malthouse), Dear Australia (PWA), Tiny Plays for Australia (ACM), Scar Trees, Viral, North West of Nowhere, Body Armour, Chopped Liver, Shrunken Iris (ILBIJERRI), Crying Shame (Next Wave), and Mother’s Tongue (Yirra Yaakin).

smallsound is the most recent creative incarnation of Melbourne born and based multi-form artist and multi-instrumentalist and Quandamooka man, Andrew James. Creating and performing original music composed in response to independent dance, theatre and film works over nearly twenty years has been not just a privilege, but an inevitable evolution. Past work for other companies and individuals include: ILBIJERRI, Farmwalker Films, Blackbox Media, Human Sacrifice Theatre, Eagles Nest Theatre and Chimene Steele-Prior.

Richie Brownlee records sounds and music in the wilds of Heidelberg West. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, Richie has worked with filmmakers Dan Farmer Andrew O’Keefe, and Bill Mousoulis among others, and in theatre with David Myles, Adam McConvell, and Human Sacrifice Theatre. Richie’s most recent work was the soundtrack for Farmwalker Films award-winning short feature Dry Fire’

Katie Sfetkidis is a lighting designer and artist who has worked extensively in theatre and contemporary experimental performance for almost 15 years across Australia and internationally. Recent credits include: Meme Girls, Atomic, Calpurnia Descending. Katie has also been the lighting designer on Daddy (Joel Bray), Exit Strategies (Aphids), The Director (Aphids), Merciless Gods (Little Ones Theatre), The Happy Prince (Little Ones Theatre), The Nightingale and the Rose (Little Ones Theatre) Abigail’s Party (Melbourne Theatre Company), Monty Python’s Spamalot (One Eyed Man Productions), Lysa and the Free Born Dames (La Boite), Apokalypsis (Charles Purcell & Zak Pidd), Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), The Moors (Red Stitch Actors Theatre). Katie is the recipient of a Green Room Award for her design for Meme Girls. She is currently the Feminist Emissary for the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.

Devika Bilimoria is an artist, photographer, and videographer trained in the Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, as well as Fine Arts (Photography) and Media Studies (film/TV) at RMIT. Their art-forms span and entangle performance, moving/still image and installation in live and digital contexts. Devika has shown work at the National Portrait Gallery, the Monash Gallery of Art, Montsalvat Gallery, Dancehouse, and is a 2021 Next Wave Kickstart recipient. Supported through Arts House, they recently made the short film REFUGIUM that was written and performed by Jen Rae and Clare G. Coleman, a winner of the Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change. 

Alex Mansell is a Melbourne based creative production specialist and co-founder of Shortcut Creative. Concentrating on the development of artistic ideas through film, photography, audio engineering and stage management, Alex has over 10 years of professional experience working in creative industries to help nurture the realisation of imagination.

Cointha has contributed her stage management skills to a broad scope of productions since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018. Cointha’s previous Malthouse Theatre credits include Because The Night and Australian Realness. Cointha has worked on Melbourne Opera’s productions and regional tours for The Flying Dutchman, Das Rheingold (Regent Theatre), FIDELIO (Athenaeum Theatre), and has stage managed for The Perception Experiment (Arts House/GUTS Dance), The Cabin (Darebin Arts/JOFmakesART), New Music Stage (St Kilda Festival), Project F (Prue Lang/Abbotsford Convent), and Little Women (VCA/MCM). Other notable credits include stage managing Yo-Yo Ma’s recital for The Bach Project: CLIMARTE and Children of Saturn (Melbourne Fringe Festival). Cointha has worked on commercial music theatre auditions for GWB Entertainment, The Gordon Frost Organisation and Lynne Ruthven Casting, and for many annual Melbourne events including the AFL Grand Final Parade and Moomba Festival.