Zoë Hollyoak Producer Zoë (she/her) is a director and creative producer. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Zoë is one half of essential workers, a Sydney-based performance making group. Zoë’s producing credits include lacuna (Griffin), Everything I Know about this Water Bottle (Old Fitz), Gardener’s Apprentice (Force Majeure), I Watched Someone Die on TikTok (PACT), The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia (WAYTCo), Never Closer (Belvoir), Horses (Belvoir 25a) and All His Beloved Children (KXT). She has directed First Love is the Revolution (Belvoir x JMC), Smart (Martin-Lysicrates Prize), Pity (Belvoir x JMC), The Changelings (PACT), Shitty (Belvoir 25a), Collapsible (Old Fitz), The Writer (NIDA) and Antigonick (NIDA). She was the 2024 recipient of The Glorias Fellowship, completing an attachment with The Wooster Group (NYC) under the mentorship of Elizabeth LeCompte. Charlotte Meagher Set & Costume Designer Charlotte (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer with a passion for theatre, based in Boorloo. Having graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts design in 2022, Charlotte believes in developing high quality local work and creating opportunity for emerging talent. With a background in both set/costume design and fine art, Charlotte is an advocate for creating alternative pathways for designers. An avid illustrator, she is always searching for ways to challenge theatre and exhibition spaces as a form, finding areas where they intersect. She feels she is a storyteller first and foremost.
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David Finnigan Writer David is a writer and theatre-maker from Ngunnawal Country, Australia. He writes plays, creates performances and develops games at the intersection of science and art. David produces performances and writing that explores concepts from climate and earth science, complex systems and resilience science. He works regularly across the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines. David has worked with climate and earth system scientists from institutions including University College London, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Wellcome Trust and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has spoken about his art-science work at the TED Conference in Vancouver and the European Geosciences Union Assembly in Vienna. He has been commissioned to create work for the United Nations, World Bank, the Wellcome Trust, Nesta UK and Chatham House. He is a MacDowell Fellow (2025), a Churchill Fellow (2012) and an Asialink Fellow (2015). Amelia Burke Director & WAYTCo Artistic Director Amelia (she/her) is a theatre director who fuses her love of live performance with a passion for making work with young people. She has worked as a teaching artist and director for a variety of arts companies across the country. For NIDA Open, she directed and devised a new production of CompanyThree’s Brainstorm and Lachlan Philpott’s Bustown . For La Mama For Kids, Amelia directed and devised Meet My Grandies with a cast of teenagers. In 2023 she directed Maki Morita’s debut play Trash Pop Butterflies , Dance Dance Paradise for Theatre Works in Naarm/ Melbourne. She also directed Frieda Lee’s All His Beloved Children for KXT on Broadway, for which she was nominated for Best Direction of an Independent Production in the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards. Amelia is a graduate of the BPA (Performance Making) from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the MFA (Directing) from National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
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