Wendy Yu Video Artist & AV Designer
Marcel Dorney Outside Eye & Rehearsal Director
Wendy is an Australian interdisciplinary artist working within dance and new media design. Her work often uses elements of choreographic composition, like choreographing and motion capturing dance in 3D, to tell compelling stories designed specifically for public space. She has presented works in numerous projection festivals in the US and Europe, as well as presented large scale works of projects as part of solo exhibitions. Within theatre, she has worked to create narrative storytelling for spaces such as the Darlinghurst Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and The Bushnell Dance Theatre. Wendy has won the International Chinese Outstanding Youth Award for her work Acts of Holding Dance in 2023 and the Think Youth Shanghai International Digital Creation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, New Media Arts Division in 2022. Her continuing ambition is to further the mastery of storytelling through new media art, through refining and expanding skills within the fields of generative programming, creative coding, movement choreography and projection mapping.
An award-winning playwright, director, composer and lecturer, Marcel is a founding member and co-artistic director of Melbourne-based theatre company, Elbow Room, whose 18 premiere productions since 2008 include We Get It (Melbourne Theatre Company‘s NEON Festival 2015), Prehistoric (Brisbane Festival 2014, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018) and Joe Paradise Lui’s Enlightenment (Darebin Arts/Studio Underground, 2021). Marcel’s work as a writer has been commissioned, developed and produced by Queensland Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Merrigong Theatre Company, Hothouse Theatre, La Boite, Griffin Theatre, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, Artslink and the Next Wave Festival, and published by Playlab Press. He holds a Master in Performance Creation from the University of Melbourne and has worked extensively as a dramaturg and script consultant. Marcel’s awards include Best Director and Best Ensemble (Ind.), 2011 Green Room Awards ( After All This ); 2012 Gold Matilda ( Fractions ); Best Writing, 2014 GRA, ( Prehistoric ); Best Ensemble (Ind.), 2021 GRA ( Enlightenment ).
Kate Baldwin Lighting Designer
Harry Dowling Production Manager
Kate is a disabled, Japanese-Australian lighting designer, who lives on Wangal Country and works predominantly across the lands of the Gadigal and Burramattagal Peoples. Since graduating from NIDA in 2019, some of her credits as Lighting Designer have included Lose to Win (Belvoir), Nothing (National Theatre of Parramatta), Albion (New Ghosts Theatre Company, Secret House & Seymour Centre), Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company), The Box Show (Critical Stages Touring & Junkyard Beats), Guards at the Taj (National Theatre of Parramatta), Chewing Gum Dreams (Green Door Theatre Company & Red Line Productions) and seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company & Green Door Theatre Company). She completed a residency at Sydney Theatre Company as Design Associate (Lighting) in 2021 and 2022. She was also a part of Ka-llective, which had residencies with PACT and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in 2021 and 2022.
Harry is a freelance production manager based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has worked in production and stage management roles on productions for organisations including Malthouse Theatre, RISING, Sydney Festival, Australian Theatre for Young People, Belvoir St Theatre, Yirramboi and broadly across the independent sector. Harry also co-founded independent theatre company Fever103 Theatre, where he has produced new Australian works at fortyfivedownstairs, Meat Market and Northcote Town Hall. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Performance from Monash University.
Catherine O’Donoghue Stage Manager
Catherine is a stage and production manager based in Perth. After completing studies at WAAPA (Stage Management, 2019), she has worked in stage management roles for a wide variety of organisations including Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Performing Lines, Sensorium Theatre, The Last Great Hunt, WA Youth Theatre Company and Barking Gecko. Her recent credits as stage manager include Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Hare Brain, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and Pillow Fight , Sensorium Theatre’s Wonderbox and The Last Great Hunt’s The Hypotheticals .
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