Katie Rasch
Katie is a Meanjin based producer and artist who works across photography, installation work, curating and producing. In her own work she likes to explore themes of Pacific Futurism, fat acceptance and resistance to assimilation. After completing a bachelor degree in Film and Screen Media Production Katie is enjoying sinking her teeth into every kind of story telling that Brisbane has to offer. She loves immersive narratives and spectacular space/site designs.
Catherine Lawrence
Originally from the UK, Brisbane is now home—which means that Catherine admits to missing family, friends, European travel, and UK theatre (in particular the quality and quantity of productions, and of performance spaces). A serial volunteer, she is a long-standing Anywhere Festival reviewer and can also be found on Geoff’s Creative Futures website (perspectives reviews, often written when carrying Geoff’s photography bag to events).
Always interested in established theatre, seeks out opportunities to see new local and international work. A supporter of new performers and productions, she seeks out most theatre, circus, cabaret, contemporary dance, Indigenous performances, and… well... just about anything (usually except for opera).
Kian Dillon
A Meanjin-based producer, stage manager, and creative, Kian is the co-founder of emerging theatre collective, T!TS AKIMBO, and was the co-producer, co-writer and co-director of multi-award winning 'The Politics of Vodka Lime Soda' at the 2022 Anywhere Festival. In 2021, she graduated from QUT's BFA (Drama) degree, and was the General Manager for student-company Vena Cava Productions. Now a freelance writer for Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane, Kian has worked across companies such as Metro Arts, QPAC, Broad Encounters, Folly Games and Brisbane Festival, in a variety of production roles.
Fliss Morton
Fliss is an emerging writer and director, currently completing her last semester of QUT’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama). Fliss’ interest lies in telling and consuming stories that subvert the norm and normalise the subverted. Her works aim to diversify the stories being told, and to respectfully represent identities that are frequently misrepresented in popular culture. Her next show 'The Only Kind of Soulmates' will be on at Vacant Assembly in late August. When Fliss isn’t writing or rehearsing, she spends her nights exploring Brisbane’s buzzing creative scene – from play readings to variety shows to music gigs, she loves it all.
Sylvia Speakeasy
Sylvia Speakeasy is a performer, MC, writer and editor. While she loves many performance genres, her penchant is for burlesque and cabaret (the more flamboyant, the better). She particularly enjoys strong characters, strong storylines, and strong drinks.
Georgia McKenzie
Georgia is a recent graduate of the University of Queensland's Arts undergraduate program. She is currently completing post-graduate practice led research at the University of Queensland in Theatre Directing. Her thesis explores a bricolage of site-specific performance, feminist, affect, and Greek re-vision theories to examine the role that performance space has in feminist directing strategies.
Georgia is an experienced vocalist, performing in a variety of professional music groups, including The 8-Tracks and Art Deco Orchestra. Currently, she is working on two passion projects: a funk collective and her first solo EP.
Georgia has a colossal love of Greek Mythology, cows, and tea. She has a deep dislike of sand, misogyny, and writing bios.
Kati Murphy
Kati has always felt most 'at home‘ around a stage, and writing is her first love.
She is drawn to performances that are immersive, interactive and experimental; and gets excited about anything to do with mental illness and dis/ability; and the metaphorical 'big top‘ that is modern circus and sideshow.
Zac Burns
Zac is a dancer and writer based in Brisbane and is currently studying a Graduate Certificate in Writing, Editing, and Publishing at UQ. Earlier in 2021, he left his cozy blue-collar job to pursue his passion for writing, and really only regrets it on Mi-Goreng night. Zac is a member of the Second Degree crew and has performed in various shows around Brisbane, such as Brisasia Festival. For him, writing and dancing are closely aligned, as both change shape and form to express meaning. But also, both attract intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate practitioners to create wholesome and supportive communities, of which he's proud to be a part.
Katherine Quigley
Katherine specialises in producing collaborative, experimental, multi-arts cultural experiences. Throughout her 20 year career she has produced festivals, international conferences, experimental Chinese Opera, theatre, circus, numerous gigs and exhibitions and countless community workshop programs.
Aaron Dora
Aaron is a Producer and Creative in the arts and live performance sector working across diverse art forms. He has worked on projects in major arts organisations including Qld Music Trails, QMF (Queensland Music Festival), Opera Queensland, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, and Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra as well as creatively producing independent theatre and film. Aaron specialises in managing complex arts projects with community and social outcomes, and has a particular interests in regional Queensland and arts education. Aaron holds a BFA (Drama) from QUT, and studied performing Drama and Film at Interlochen Centre for the Arts in Michigan, USA.
Kristy Stanfield
Kristy holds a Bachelor in Languages and Linguistics and generally loves all things wordy.
She has been active in the folk and world music scenes since her early twenties when she took up the accordion in a moment of poor judgment. These days she can be found playing both solo and with bands Zumpa and Úna Heera, but over the years has performed throughout the east coast in collaboration with various music, theatre, and circus artists. She has also worked as an ESL teacher and currently writes for Segmento magazine.
Kristy has a soft spot for the dark, the funny, the queer; any and all art that explores the challenges and ubiquities of the human condition.
Jaydem Martin
Jaydem is a First Nations writer born in Wellington, New South Wales. He is part of the Wiradjuri Nation and is the great grandson of Wiradjuri elder and Aboriginal activist, Aunty Joyce Williams, who also raised him since he was a child. Jaydem has had multiple poems published in the past as well as various sports articles that touch on Indigenous and Disability issues. He enjoys working on electronic music in his spare time and has a love for the weird and the alternative when it comes to art.
Harmonie Downes
Harmonie is a creative consultant working in the Creative Industries and community and disability sectors. Harmonie specialises in inclusive and accessible arts practice, events and business strategy for artists.
She has worked as a ceramic artist in her own practise, as an artworker, as a touring musician and ensemble facilitator, booking agent, mentor and marketer for creatives, festival director, producer and stage manager for large scale complex festivals, small to medium events and major performing arts venues across the country, a grant assessor for organisations and is on a couple of boards and steering committees.
Dr Fed
Fed is Sardinian by birth, nomad by choice, and doctor of Peace and Conflict Studies by training. When she is not plotting at House Conspiracy , she teaches Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland.
As a proper Westender, she can be found handstanding on people and by the river, dancing with the moon, and in contemplation of visions of hope at art shows.
Fed writes on local art for The Westender, ArtsHub, and Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane.
Phoebe Manning
Phoebe Manning is a character clown. She loves stories that reflect humanity. She has performed in festivals and cabarets around Australia. She works with Vulcana Circus.
Lauren Hale
Lauren is a Brisbane-based performer, maker, and professional silly billy. She has written, directed, and performed in countless shows and trains regularly with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company. Lauren illustrates and co-publishes a short story zine called GULP! Fiction aimed at supporting local genre writers.
She believes that Brisbane is a juicy peach of weird and wonderful artists and will do everything she can to convince you to taste it.
Lizzie Vilmanis
A chameleon of the Arts Industry, Lizzie is an independent artist and Co-Director of Prying Eye whose work spans across performance, creation, production, admin, advocacy, education and health. Her primary practice investigates communication beyond words through the animated articulation of the human body.
A curious explorer of human behaviour she loves expanding creative capacity through collaboration with others. Also a deep thinker who is concerned with finding solutions that work for the long term, she is sometimes referred to as 'The Little Vampire' - probably also because she's a quiet one that tends to surprise people when they least expect it and because she manages to change between roles as if she has some sort of shapeshifting superpower.
Angela Peita
Angela Pieta is a performance poet, Founder of Ruckus Brisbane, one of Australia's largest poetry slams, and the current coordinator and producer of SlammED!, Queensland's largest interschools poetry slam learning program.
Kelsey A
Kelsey A isn’t a mover or shaker, but she is an avid art-maker. She struggles to settle down and has dabbled wide in circus, poetry, producing, gin appreciation and (shudder) academia. She believes art is about speaking to the soul; everything else is wrapping paper.
Flora Wong
Australian violinist Flora Wong is a musician, educator and curator who is drawn to the intersections between different disciplines of artistic practice. Based in Brisbane, Australia (Turrbal/Jagera land), she is a member of new music septet Nonsemble and founder of Hidden Dome, an event series that celebrates and advocates for diverse voices in the arts.