PLAY IN A DAY
Friday, 25 September 2026
Antipodes HQ, South Melbourne
Doors open 7pm, performances from 7.30pm
Theatre Lover $40 | Full Price $20 | Concession $10 | Mob $5
A creative marathon where four writers, four directors and eight actors have a combined 24hours to write, rehearse and stage original 10-minute plays. (What could go wrong?!)
This whirlwind showcase brings together artists across many creative communities for an energetic and madcap evening of entertainment!
Be the first to see these fully original works, and join in what is sure to be an energetic and fun evening!
B-E-E
It’s the biggest event of the school year: St. Helens’ Annual Spelling Bee. Cass and Maria are two precocious Grade 4 students, P-R-E-C-O-C-I-O-U-S. Both of them read at a high school level. But only one student can spell their way to the top; who will it bee?
Content warnings: Mild course language.
Writer: MON WING-YUN (they/them)
Director: NIX BOWMAN (he/they)
Actors: CAMILA CAMERO RIVAS (she/her) & SOLEIL CERCARELLI (she/her)
NICOLE KIDMAN GOES TO A PRESS JUNKET
Charlie, a tiktok influencer and Shakespeare fanatic, is interviewing Nicole Kidman at a press junket for her newest film. Never meet your heroes.
Content warnings: Violence, sexual themes, politics.
Writer: MITCH RALSTON (they/them)
Director: FREDDIE FITZPATRICK-LUBOWITZ (they/them)
Actors: GEORGIA GOFF (she/her) & SOPHIE HARVEY (she/her)
LES SOEURS
Immediately after the funeral of their semi-estranged dad, Sophie and Jade reunite to hash out some old family history.
Content warnings: Death of a parent, familial struggles, childhood trauma, mild language, loud sounds/ shouting.
Writer: ALISTAIR WARD (he/him)
Director: AVI WALSH-DAVIS (they/them)
Actors: LUCY PAYNE (she/her) & ESTHER B EBONY (she/her)
P.S. I...
You don’t know me, but I know you…
It’s late in the office, and Sam and Alex are working late. What begins as an unexpected conversation about books quickly becomes something more personal. As the two coworkers talk, boundaries begin to blur and a seemingly ordinary conversation takes an increasingly uncomfortable turn.
Content warnings: themes of stalking, obsessive behaviour, invasion of privacy, online harassment and threatening behaviour.
Writer: JAI CAMERON (he/him)
Director: ALYSSA MOLLER (she/they)
Actors: REUBY CHIP (they/she) & MICHAEL FANG (he/him)
Producer: CAMERON STEENS (they/them)
Operator: SIENA BONNICI (she/her)
Props: BRANDON PAPE (he/him)
Writing Consultant: MELISSA DAVID (she/her)
Other credits:
Event Photographer: ANGEL LEGGAS (he/him)
Meet the Writers
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Jai Cameron
He/Him
WRITER
Jai is a regional radio and television presenter, MC, comedian, performer, publicist and writer. In 2017, Jai studied Music Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts Music Theatre Studio and wrote his debut comedy show, Would You Like Fries With That, selling out a season at the Butterfly Club. For the Melbourne International Comedy Festival he has written and performed, Is It Just Me? Domestic and Daddy. Jai wrote and performed his cabaret, Til Death (Or Court) Do Us Part for Melbourne Fringe in 2025. In 2026, he was part of La Mama Regional Immerse and hillsceneLIVE.
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Mitch Ralson
They/Them
WRITER
Mitch is a VCA trained musical theatre actor based in naarm with decades of experience performing around the world. Credit highlights include Jersey Boys, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and Legally Blonde the Musical.
Mitch is passionate about supporting the creation of new work that resonates with their community, and loves chocolate almonds, Olivia Rodrigo and hiking to see waterfalls.
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Alistair Ward
He/Him
DIRECTOR
Alistair is a writer, actor, and director, and the founder of Pansy Productions. An award-winning graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, his debut play, ‘twenty-something,’ received the People’s Choice Award at the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival. This year he was chosen as an inaugural writer for the Magnify: Kingston Arts Writers Residency and received a Kingston Arts Development Grant for his fourth play ‘No longer friends.’ He is currently in pre-production for his first short film, ‘Goodbye Lover.’ He has directed projects at The Butterfly Club, The MC Showroom, and Chapel off Chapel.
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Mon Wing-Yun
They/Them
WRITER
Mon is a queer neurodivergent artist from Meanjin/Brisbane.
Through a blend of live performance and film they capture concepts surrounding alienation, dehumanisation and immigrant identity. They are anti-AI and pro-failure.
Meet the Directors
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Nix Bowman
He/They
DIRECTOR
Nix is a trans masc actor based in Melbourne. They are a 2016 graduate of Music Theatre from the Victorian College of the Arts. Nix’s credits include The Players (Bell Shakespeare), Comedy of Errors (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), As You Like It (Bar’d Work), The Red Tree (National Theatre of Parramatta), The Beautiful Game (Manilla Street Productions), Bring It On (Stage Masters) and Ordinary Days (Pursued By Bear). Nix is also an emerging theatre director having worked with Melbourne Shakespeare Company and EbbFlow Theatre Co. In 2026, Nix was published in the anthology All Myths Are Trans with their narrative poem “A Journey Home”. He is proudly represented by Ian White Management.
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Freddie Fitzpatrick-Lubowitz
They/Them
DIRECTOR
Freddie is a writer, director, and sometimes stage manager who graduated from Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with a Master of Theatre (Directing) in 2025, writing and directing their graduating show Their Eyes Spoke Everything in September of that year. In 2023, Freddie’s premier work, The Angel with Blue Eyes. Freddie held a La Mama residency in 2025 for their work On Saturday Night, which recently had a sold out season at La Mama’s 2026 Explorations. As a writer/director, their practice primarily focuses on the connection between writing and directing in their own work, and on collaborating with emerging writers in the creation, development and production processes of their works.
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Alyssa Moller
She/They
DIRECTOR
Alyssa is a writer, director and filmmaker based in Naarm. Alyssa has recently been selected for the Victorian First Break program through the Australian Writer’s Guild and is incredibly passionate about storytelling and loves to immerse herself in film, theatre and art, gravitating towards stories concerned with women and femme relationships. Their recent writing and directing credits include Downpour (2026) and Boys Will Be Boys (2026). Production Management credits include Flicker (Motley Bauhaus, Pilot Comedy), Mamma Mia (The National Theatre), Once (Chapel off Chapel) and Bring It On (The National Theatre), for Theatrical and AG Theatre.
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Avi Walsh-Davis
They/Them
DIRECTOR
Avi is an emerging Naarm-based creative and theatremaker. Since their childhood days of devising elaborate plays with their cousins, they have decided to continue this creative passion at a university and independent level. They have had works published in Aedificamus Journal and Sprig Magazine, and showcased at Willows & Wine readings nights. Their theatre credits include writing and directing ‘Everyday’ (2025) with Eleven Eleven Theatre at Union House Theatre, and ‘All Good Things’ (2026) at the Motley Bauhaus. They are also involved in student radio, hosting the shows ‘Backtrack’ and ‘Shutterbugged!’ with Radio Fodder.
Meet the Actors
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Camila Camero Rivas
She/Her
ACTOR
Camila is an up and coming professional performer and creative, born in Venezuela and raised in Sydney. Then moved to Melbourne to train in musical theatre at Patrick School of the Arts. Camila’s performance highlights include; Reefer Madness, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sweet Charity (Patrick School of the Arts). She’s a featured vocalist in the demo recording of new Australian musical: 7 spices. Camila has also written and performed her cabaret: Inde’pen’dence Day under the direction of Ash Flanders.
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Soleil Cercarelli
She/Her
ACTOR
A passionate and meticulous emerging creative with a keen interest in acting, voice work and theatre production. Hailing from Darwin and with limited opportunity to develop her passion, Soleil has stepped out with every chance possible to broaden her understanding of the creative arts.
Now, as a recent drama graduate, Soleil is seeking to put her skills to the test in a professional setting, priding herself on her ability to engage with others through both collaboration and the power of art.
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Reuby Chip
They/She
ACTOR
Born in Sydney, raised in Sydney, having spent all their life in Sydney. Reuby always knew they were a Melbournite at heart. They began their acting career as ‘Lake’ in the award winning feature ‘Misgivings’ (2025).
Since being based in Melbourne, Reuby has engaged in theatre actively. Most notably, landing the role of ‘Luce’ in the award winning show ‘I Promise This Isn’t About You (Even If It Feels Like It Is)’ by Pigeon Pigeon Co (2025), and FourPlay (TaylorMade Prodz) at Chapel Off Chapel.
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Esther B Ebony
She/Her
ACTOR
Esther is a Lebanese-Guyanese-Australian actor from Naarm/ Melbourne, who holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Federation University Arts Academy (2024). Esther is a deeply passionate and dedicated performer with a strong interest in contemporary plays, film and TV and telling diverse Australian stories. Since graduating, Esther is grateful to have worked on a number of projects, including Other Gods (Fidan) for the Melbourne Fringe Festival (2025), Articulate (Nadia) for the Melbourne international comedy festival (2026) and most recently 12 Angry Actors (Mary) with Asamina theatre company.
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Michael Fang
He/Him
ACTOR
Michael has studied at NIDA and Howard Fine acting studio. Is taking vocal lessons at Ian Nisbet Vocal Coaching, coached by Rhianna. Looks forward to wherever the future takes him on stage & screen. You might recognise him from Australian Idol 2025. Michael previously have been in shows such as an Australian Original Musical: On the Rise, Freaky Friday, High School Musical (twice), Grease, Catch me if you can, My Fair Lady & Ladies in Black.
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Georgia Goff
She/Her
ACTOR
Georgia is a Perth born performer, composer, and writer. She graduated from Waapa in 2025 with a bachelor of Performing Arts. Her graduating piece titled, Requiem: a song cycle, which she composed, co-wrote, and performed in won the TILT Industry award which granted her a residency at the Blue Room Theatre in May this year. She originated the roles of Lady Luck and Madame Charade in Roundhouse Theatrical Co.'s production of Monopoly: The Unauthorised Musical. She also originated the role of Elle in Laura Goodlet's production of Blue Angel, and was part of the Chorus in Black Swan State Theatre Co.'s production of The Pool.
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Sophie Harvey
She/Her
ACTOR
Sophie is an emerging, Scottish, Melbourne-based performer. Most recently, she performed as Lady Capulet in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s Graduate Players’ production of Romeo and Juliet. Prior to this, she performed in multiple productions of her self-written solo cabaret, Asexual Fantasies and Hopeless Aromantics. Wanting to create something she never had, the cabaret explored Sophie’s experiences with asexuality and aromanticism, and how that has interacted with her life as a performer. Sophie is a Showfit graduate, where she studied musical theatre full-time for two years, receiving training from a range of teachers including Katherine Tonkin and Freya List.
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Lucy Payne
She/Her
ACTOR
Lucy is a multidisciplinary creative, focusing on urgent, engaged theatre that always has storytelling at its core. Since graduating from Ballarat Arts Academy in 2020 her acting credits include Unestablished (La Mama), Mi:Wi 3027 (La Mama), Exiles (FortyFiveDownstairs), An Indigenous Trilogy (La Mama), Bayou Bart (Theatreworks) and Merchant of Venice (Eagles Nest). Lucy has just returned to Australia, having completed her training as an Intimacy Professional with Vancouver-based Principal Intimacy Professionals in June and made her directing debut at Edinburgh Fringe in August. She was part of the 2023 La Mama Pathways course for emerging playwrights.
Meet the Team
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Cameron Steens
They/Them
PRODUCER
A queer, neurodivergent theatre maker based in Naarm, originally from Boorloo. A WAAPA Music Theatre graduate, they work as a creative producer, director and performer. Antipodes’ New Work & Marketing Manager and a Producer on numerous developments including the Winter Labs, Death to a Butterfly, Silver Tongue, Little Squirt (prev. Spunk Daddy), the premieres of Orlando, Storked ,月を見る夜 Moongazing, Back to Te Maunga, the Festival of the Unseen and the Hayes Theatre season of Ghost Quartet. Other credits include: The Last Sunday in June, MIMMA, James Terry’s RENT & BSSTC’s Assassins (Performer). AMTAC Sessions (Co-Producer), This is Living, Pops, If We Got Some More Cocaine… and FourPlay (Associate Director), Protein (Assist. Director & Sound Design) and Venue & Ticketing Coordinator (Gasworks Arts Park). www.cameronsteens.com
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Siena Bonnici
She/Her
OPERATOR
Siena is a Naarm-based Stage Manager, Production Manager & Technical Operator. She completed a Bachelor of Entertainment Business Management in 2025 with JMC following over a decade of performing. Since moving into production, Siena has gravitated towards working in both children’s and independent theatre. Her credits include Stage School Australia’s bi-annual productions, ‘Year of the Rooster’ (Spinning Plates, 2026), ‘Happy Birthday Taylah Whelan’ (Skint, 2026) ‘Spring Awakening’ (Soundworks, 2025), ‘Legally Blonde’ (Theatrical, 2025), ‘Othello’ & ‘As You Like It’ (Melbourne Shakespeare Company, 2025). Driven by theatre’s ability to connect and change people, she strives to work on productions that resonate with audiences and give voice to diverse communities.
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Brandon Pape
He/Him
PROPS
Brandon is the Founding Artistic Director for Antipodes Theatre Company, where he directed Ghost Quartet (two 2020 Green Room Award Nominations, return seasons in 2021 (Meat Market Stables) and 2025 (Hayes Theatre) and co-directed with Trudy Dunn their immersive reimagining of Guys and Dolls (thirteen 2024 Green Room Award nominations). Other Antipodes credits include Sam I Am, And She Would Stand Like This, Passing Strange (five 2023 Green Room Award Nominations), Orlando, and the Winter Lab - an annual development program for new work and bold ideas.
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Melissa David
She/Her
WRITING CONSULTANT
Melissa has been a professional performer for 20 years. Favourite roles include Maureen in Rent, Lucy in Three Penny Opera, and Starchild in Ghost Quartet. She is an award winning business woman and currently CEO of MDE, former Vice Chair of Democrats Abroad in Victoria, founder at Expat Women at Work, and Vice Chair of Antipodes Theatre Company. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Tennessee. She received her BA in Playwriting from California State University, Fullerton and went to San Francisco School of the Arts for Acting. She moved from New York City to Melbourne 7 years ago. Melissadavid.com
Venue Information:
Antipodes HQ
123A Thistlethwaite St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
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