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WRITER

Maki is a writer and theatre-maker based on unceded Wurundjeri country. She is interested in formally experimental works that play with structure, language, and ‘liveness’. She was a resident at Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio and took Noh workshops at Tessen-kai in Tokyo. Her play Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise premiered at Theatre Works. Her prose and poetry have appeared in Cordite, Island Magazine, Mascara Literary Review, The Suburban Review, and more. She has also exhibited work at Linden New Art. Maki graduated with a Master of Theatre (writing) from the Victorian College of the Arts.

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DIRECTOR

Ari is an Indonesian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work across screen, performance, and sound explores our complex technological entanglements with the post-human. Her recent work has exhibited widely with institutions such as Gertrude Contemporary, Institute of Modern Art, Liquid Architecture, Bangkok Kunsthalle, and Queer East London. She is the performance curator at Miscellania, and a current studio artist resident at West Space. Her film ‘The Overwoman’ was shortlisted for the Incinerator Gallery Art Award for Social Change.

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DRAMATURG

Roshelle is a Hong Kong born multidisciplinary artist whose award-winning show NOMNOMNOM was adapted in East Iceland, Shanghai and Sydney, and her online show THIRSTY! was programmed at Griffin Theatre and Google Creative Lab. Roshelle’s play THE RED LEAD won Bruntwood Playwriting Prize's International Award, and was developed at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and Banff Playwrights Lab in Canada. THE ROBOT DOG, which she co-wrote with Matthew Ngamurarri Heffernan, premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company for Asiatopa Festival. Roshelle is a New Writers Collective mentor (Arts Centre Melbourne) and in Contemporary Asian Australian Performance’s Artist Reference Group.

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PERFORMER ‘Chie’ & MOVEMENT CONSULTANT

Yumi is a Japanese-born, multi-award-winning performance maker and creator of Butoh Cabaret, integrating ritual practices including the Japanese tea ceremony. Over 30 years, she has developed a distinctive style blending narrative, abstraction, ritual, and humour, exploring cultural identity across traditional and contemporary life. She has received an Australia Council Fellowship, serves as Artistic Director of ButohOUT!, and her award-winning works have been presented internationally across Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, South America, and the US. Yumi’s socially engaged practice includes work with First Nations and refugee communities. She is a leading figure in global Butoh and a recipient of multiple Green Room Awards and the Melbourne Fringe Living Legend Award. www.yumi.com.au

Photo by Tomoko Izumitani

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VISION, LIGHTING AND SYSTEMS DESIGNER

duàn is an experimental a/v artist preoccupied with spectacle, tech, (para)text and spatial ritual/oracles, living and playing on unceded Wurundjeri land. Their speculative multi-lingual multi- lore practice is bookended by an evolving philosophy of slow working~slow living~pleasure. duàn’s multi Greenroom-winning works have been supported by Now or Never, RISING, Fed Square, the Substation, APHIDS and more, both nationally and abroad.

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COSTUME DESIGNER

Kiara is a designer, dramaturg, and artist working out of Melbourne, Australia. She moved from Indonesia to Melbourne to pursue her dreams and graduated university with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Production) at VCA. Kiara sees her intercultural upbringing in Indonesia and her close connection to her Japanese heritage as a gift to her work, often pulling symbols and stories from her multiculturalism. She is inspired by physical theatre groups, as well as dance forms such as Butoh. She hopes to work on shows that revolve around themes of gender, connection and culture.

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COMPOSITION AND SOUND DESIGNER

Jack is a queer performer and sound artist based in Naarm. Their work is shaped by the push and pull of diaspora and queerness, where tradition is both refuge and resistance. They improvise live on an amplified flute, bending and reshaping the flute’s voice through shifting microtones, glitches, and breath. By subverting traditional forms, they transform the Western flute from a symbol of colonial influence into a vessel for expressing their fluid identity and diasporic narrative as a non-binary artist from Shanghai.They are part of Lotus Web. jackwhu.bandcamp.com

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GUEST COMPOSER

Hannah is a writer and musician from Aotearoa, working and studying on unceded Wurundjeri land. She makes music under the moniker, 'Blood Lotus', and forms one half of 'Lotus Threads', a collaborative poetry and music project with poet, Panda Wong.

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SOUND CONSULTANT

Ethan is a sound designer and VCA graduate (BFA Design & Production) working across theatre, dance, film, and installation. Recent credits include: What’s Yours and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), Boys on the Verge of Tears (fortyfivedownstairs), Flesh Vessel (The Australian Ballet), I Met An Angel Named Jacques (Footscray Community Arts), I hope this means something (Chapel Off Chapel), Laundry Shoot, MinusOneSister (Theatre Works), and several graduate productions at VCA, such as Plant Nation, Theatrum Botanicum and The Wolves. Ethan has also collaborated with Masters of Theatre (Directing) students on captivating projects like Ariadne, and An Unseasonable Fall of Snow at VCA. www.ethanhuntersound.com

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INTIMACY COORDINATOR

Bayley is a consultant on consent-based practice, inclusion, and intimacy coordination. Bayley has worked on productions Truth (Malthouse Theatre), Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Andrew Henry), Sweat (STC), The Almighty Sometimes (Melbourne Theatre Company), The Lewis Trilogy, Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), Djuna, Things I Know to be True, The Inheritance, In the Club and The Hall (Bullet Heart Club). Screen credits as Intimacy Coordinator include Neighbours (Fremantle Media) and Ladies in Black (Bunya Productions). Bayley trained with Intimacy On Set and IDC Professionals.

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STAGE MANAGER

Jade is a South African Theatre Maker, Writer, Stage Manager, and award-winning Violinist.. Having been in the performing arts for most of her life, she came to Melbourne in 2023 to further her career. Since coming to Australia, she has embraced more work as a Stage Manager and lighting and sound operator. Recent works include: La Belle Epoque (Dir. Budi Miller), DREDGE (Dir.Brandon Armstrong),ILARUN: The Cutting Comb (Dir. Effie Nkrumah), THREE SISTERS (Dir. Greg Carroll), STORKED (Dir. Maud Davey), LOVE & INFORMATION (Dir. Belle Hansen), and OTHELLO (Dir. Tanya Gerstle).

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CREATIVE PRODUCER AND PRODUCTION MANAGER

Brandon is the Founding Artistic Director of Antipodes Theatre Company, where he directed Ghost Quartet (two 2020 Green Room Award Nominations, return seasons in 2021 and 2025) and co-directed with Trudy Dunn their immersive reimagining of Guys and Dolls (thirteen 2024 Green Room Award nominations). Other Antipodes programming includes Sam I Am, And She Would Stand Like This, Passing Strange (five 2023 Green Room Award nominations), Orlando and Storked (both World Premieres) along with the annual Winter Lab.

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CREATIVE PRODUCER AND MARKETING

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, 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 and If We Got Some More Cocaine… (Associate Director), Protein (Assist. Director & Sound Design) and Venue & Ticketing Coordinator (Gasworks Arts Park). www.cameronsteens.com