Creative Biographies
Steve Wilson-Alexander Creative Team Steve is a theatre-maker living on Dharawal Land. He is a founding member of re:group performance collective and FAST PRINCESS, the resident film-making collective at Cerebral Palsy Alliance 2016 – 18. He was Youth Artist in Residence at Wollongong Youth Centre 2012, a member of PACT Collective 2015, a part of International Visiting Artists Week at Back to Back 2017 and a participant of the Artist Farm residency at The Theatre Practice, Singapore in 2018. He worked on Ben Tre Festival of the Coconut and Hue Festival in 2012 and Santiago A Mil International Theatre Festival in 2019. He assistant directed/video designed Something that Happened with Strangeways Ensemble (2023). His theatre work with re:group includes Route Dash Niner at Merrigong Theatre Company (2016 – 17) and the national tour of Coil (2022 – 23), POV at Downstairs Belvoir (2024), KEEP YOUR HEAD UP for Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Carriageworks (2024) and AUTO-TUNE at Sydney Opera House (2024). Carly Young Creative Team Carly is a theatre-maker and producer living on Dharawal Land. As a founding member and artist in re:group performance collective, she has created film, video and performance works across Australia and internationally. Key projects include Coil national tour (2022 – 23), Route Dash Niner: Part 1 and Route Dash Niner: Part 2 for Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong (2016 – 17), Hotel Obscura with Triage, Die Fabrikanten, Mezzanine Spectacles & Ohi Pezoume at FAI AR, Marseille (2015); LOVELY at PACT, Sydney (2014), Carly and Troy do ‘A Doll’s House’ at Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle (2013), Adelaide Fringe Festival (2014), You Are Here Festival, Canberra (2014), La Mama Theatre, Melbourne (2016) and durational performance work YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA with Deborah Pollard for Performance Space at the University of Wollongong (2014). Carly works as a creative producer across visual arts, music and theatre, and was an inaugural participant in All The Things We Couldn’t Say , a three-year collaboration between Salamanca Arts Centre in Australia and Checkpoint Theatre in Singapore. Malcolm Whittaker Creative Team Malcolm works as an artist, writer, researcher, performer, producer and teacher in solo pursuits, as a member of re:group performance collective and Shammgods, and in collaboration with other artists and non-artists on a project by project basis. His projects have taken the form of theatre and gallery situations, site-specific and public interventions, performance lectures, film shoots, phone calls, support groups, radio programs, elevator rides, teeth-brushing services, walks in the park, games of chess, gift shops, handshakes, newspapers, fashion labels, letters in the mail, digging holes in the dirt and the borrowing of books from the library. He has made and presented work extensively across Australia, the UK and Europe through a range of initiatives and organisations. Malcolm holds a PhD from The University of Wollongong, where he has also worked as a sessional teacher of art theory and practice since 2014. He has been a member of the Artistic Directorate of PACT Centre for Emerging Arts since 2020.
Mark Rogers Writer Mark is a multi-award-winning playwright, screenwriter and theatre- maker who lives on Dharawal Land. In 2019 he won both Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Award and the Griffin Award for New Australian Writing for his play Superheroes . His play Naked & Screaming won Best Production at the 2022 Matilda Awards. He was awarded Screen NSW’s Short To Feature Fast Track Initiative for a new project with director and co-writer Aaron Lucas, which premiered at SXSW Sydney and screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024. He has feature length projects in development with Closer Productions and Cosmic Scream, supported by Screen Australia. His work as a playwright includes Naked & Screaming (La Boite Theatre), Superheroes (Griffin Theatre Company), Tom William Mitchell (Merrigong-X), Plastic (Old 505 Theatre), Soothsayers (Brisbane Festival: Under The Radar), Blood Pressure (Rock Surfers, Old Fitzroy Theatre) and Gobbledygook (PACT, AC Arts Adelaide). His work with the independent companies re:group performance collective and Applespiel has been staged at Belvoir, Darwin Festival, MONA:FOMA, Next Wave, PACT, Performance Space, Metro Arts, Malthouse Theatre, La Mama, Merrigong Theatre Company, Shopfront Arts Co-Op, Arts House and the Sydney Opera House. He holds a PHD from Soloman is a theatre-maker and video artist. His work explores the intersection between the physical and digital in theatre, experimenting with how theatre and film can co-exist in a live context. He works as a director, performer, puppeteer and video designer and is driven by how these practices meet formally. His recent works include AUTO-TUNE (Opera House 2024), POV (Belvoir 2024), Oh Deer! (Rising, 2023), Sex Magic (Griffin 2023), UFO (Griffin 2023), The Sucker (Brand X, 2021) and What the Ocean Said (Opera House, 2022). Solomon is a core member of re:group performance collective, who’s work Coil was presented at the Opera House, Mona Foma, PACT and Next Wave. Solomon has also worked with Branch Nebula, My Darling Patricia, Nick Cave, Applespiel, Studio A and Chiara Guidi. Solomon was artistic associate with Erth Visual & Physical Inc (2014 – 24) and has toured with them throughout the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan. the University of Wollongong. Solomon Thomas Director
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