Creative Team
Gita Bezard Core Artist The Last Great Hunt Gita is a playwright, devisor, director and performer. She’s a founding member of The Last Great Hunt and mother to a tiny artist in the making. Her credits for The Last Great Hunt as a writer/director include Telephone , Perpetual Wake , And All That Glitters and as a co-devisor and performer Whistleblower (Perth Festival, 2021), Stay With Us and Minnie and Mona Play Dead (FRINGE WORLD 2013 Martin Sims Award for Best New WA Work; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brisbane International Festival). In 2016 her play Girl Shut Your Mouth debuted at Black Swan State Theatre Company and was nominated for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her playwriting commissions include Walk of the Whales (Barking Gecko Arts), Bloody Paris (Black Swan State Theatre Company) and The Paper Escaper (Terrapin Puppet Theatre). Adriane Daff Core Artist The Last Great Hunt Adriane is a theatre maker and actor based in Perth (Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar). She is a core artist with The Last Great Hunt, where she also plays a key leadership role as director of marketing and communications. Adriane aims for her creative practice to sit at the intersection of performance and design – where playfulness, improvisation and collaboration are used to explore the weird and the wonderful. She has studied in her hometown of Perth (WAAPA), New York City (Ward Acting Studio) and Paris (Ecole Philippe Gaulier). Some notable credits include Lé Nør (nominated for two 2019 Helpmann awards including best new Australian work) and The Irresistible (nominated for a 2018 Helpmann Award, best new play), which had seasons at Dark Mofo (2019) and Sydney Opera House (2019). Adriane’s first commission, an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard (2021, co-written by Katherine Tonkin) was staged by Black Swan State Theatre Company and premiered at Perth Festival.
Arielle Gray Core Artist The Last Great Hunt Arielle is a performer, theatre maker, director, puppeteer and founding artist of The Last Great Hunt. Her work is driven by love of inventive form, handmade worlds, theatrical magic and big emotions, often blending live camera, puppetry, projection and performance. Arielle’s creations have toured throughout Australia and the world. As an adaptor and performer, Arielle has toured nationally with Cicada (Barking Gecko), including at Sydney Theatre Company. As a performer, her credits include Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre/Black Swan State Theatre Company/ Perth Festival) and Picnic At Hanging Rock (Malthouse Theatre/Black Swan State Theatre Company), including to the Barbican Centre, London. With The Last Great Hunt, Arielle is a prolific co-creator, performer and co-director. As co-creator, co-director and performer she premiered Night Night at Perth Festival in 2025. As co-creator and director, shows include Whistleblower (winner, Outstanding Direction of a Mainstage Show, Performing Arts WA Awards) and Stay With Us . As co-creator and performer, her credits include Lé Nør [the rain] , New Owner and It’s Dark Outside , all shows that have earned multiple Helpmann nominations and various awards. Jeffrey Jay Fowler Core Artist The Last Great Hunt JJ is a playwright, dramaturg, director and actor. He wrote and acted in The Hypotheticals (winner NT Literature Award for Theatre), A History of Drinking and ELEPHENTS (winner Performing Arts WA Best New Play). He has performed in and co-created FAG/STAG (winner Scotsman Fringe First 2017), BALI, The Advisors and All That Glitters and co-devised Lé Nør [the rain] with The Last Great Hunt, of which he is a founding artist. His other plays include Dick Pics in the Garden of Eden , Minnie and Mona Play Dead (winner Martin Sims Award), The One (winner Blaz Award for Best New Writing) and Hope is the saddest (winner FRINGE WORLD Best Theatre). Among the shows he has directed are The Eisteddfod (winner Performing Arts WA Best Director and Best Mainstage Play), Girl Shut Your Mouth , Blithe Spirit and In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play for Black Swan State Theatre Company. JJ was Associate Director of Black Swan from 2014 to 2017, and then Director of New Writing for 2018 and 19. His postgraduate studies were in directing at NIDA in 2010.
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