Clare Watson is a multi-award-winning director and theatre-maker. In 2023, she was appointed Artistic Director of Windmill. Her first work for the company, Hans and Gret, enjoyed a sell-out season at the Adelaide Festival.  

From 2016-2022 she was Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company and the former Artistic Director at St Martins Youth Centre. Clare has directed work for several major theatre companies and festivals including Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival, Adelaide Festival among others. She directed a production of Cyrano adapted by Virginia Gay which won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh and was nominated in London for 3 Offies Awards including Best Production and Best Director. Clare is the recipient of a Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. 

Virginia Gay is an award-winning actor, writer and director. She recently starred in Colin From Accounts, SBS’ Safe Home, Savage River and Thank God You’re Here. She was Artistic Director of Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2024/25 and received a Logie nomination for most Outstanding Supporting Actor for After The Verdict. She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, wrote and starred in Cyrano for MTC in 2022. Cyrano had a smash-hit new production for EdFringe 2024 (winning a Fringe First Award for Most Outstanding New Writing), followed by a London season (nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lead Actor). In 2026 she will direct Yve Blake’s new show Mackenzie for Bell Shakespeare.  

Jonathon is an award-winning designer. He has designed for major theatre companies including Windmill, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, State Theatre Company of SA, Black Swan, Belvoir, LaBoite, Bell Shakespeare, Is This Yours?, Aphids, Arena Theatre Company, Polyglot, The Real TV Project, Polytoxic, Men of Steel, Lemony S Puppet Theatre, Terrapin, Vitalstatistix, Barking Gecko, The Border Project, Dead Puppet Society, The Last Great Hunt, The Escapists and Sandpit.

In 2023, he won an APDG Award for Beep and Mort Series 1. He designed Windmill’s feature film, Girl Asleep and won the ACCTA Award for Best Costume Design with a nomination for Best Production Design, as well as two APDG Awards. 

Larissa McGowan is an award-winning Australian dancer and choreographer. An independent choreographer and movement consultant she was a longstanding performer and Associate Choreographer with Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) she is currently Associate Artist for Restless Dance Theatre. In 2003 she won the Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer and Best Female Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work at the Helpmann Awards and the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer in 2004.

Lucy is an award-winning lighting designer and artist. Lucy has designed for companies including Black Swan, Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse, Rone, Juluwarlu Group, Yirra Yaakin, Griffin Theatre, WA Ballet, Barking Gecko, Windmill, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Opera Australia, Melbourne Opera, Lyric Opera, WAYTCO, Sensorium, Perth International Arts Festival and more.  

Lucy’s recent designs include Time: Perth for the artist Rone, Never Have I Ever and The Seed with Black Swan State Theatre Company, Nothing Twice (Robert Bondara), Carnivale.6 (Raewyn Hill), mattering (James O’Hara) with WA Ballet, The Whale & Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge with Spare Parts, and Hairspray with HAMA Productions. Lucy was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design for three of these designs in the recent PAWA Awards. 

Joe Paradise Lui (it/its) is a submerging artist who puts the mid in mid-career. It is the undisputed winner of the 2013 Spirit of the Fringe award. It has won no awards since.

Joe creates experimental theatre and performance works as Renegade Productions. Joe was the artist in residence at the Malthouse Theatre for 2023/2024. Joe’s most recent directing work was on Legends of the Golden Arches (Perth Festival/ Rising/ Melbourne Theatre Company). Its most recent independent directing work was whitesnake3000, (CO:3 dance company). Joe is also a writer, and a sound and lighting designer. Recent sound design credits include Is God Is (Melbourne Theatre Company), and This Is Living (Malthouse Theatre). 

Luke works across all areas of sound including sound design, foley, sound effects editing and music composition. He has worked nationally and around the world.

Luke has created soundtracks artists and companies such as All The Queens Men, Australian Dance Theatre, Australasian Dance Collective, Bare Bones Dance Company, Brink Productions, Belvoir, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Frontier Danceland, Gabrielle Nankivell, Melbourne Theatre Company, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Ox, Rachel Arianne Ogle, Rambert Dance Company, Restless Dance Theatre, State Theatre Company South Australia, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Tasdance, The Farm, West Australian Ballet and Windmill.  

In 2013 he received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Sound Design of Windmill’s School Dance. 

Ivy Miller is an emerging designer and stage manager currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Recent credits include Set Designer on Cendrillon (dir. Johanna Allen), Stage Manager on The Other Shore (dir. Bernadette Fam), Stage Manager and Set Designer on EQUALS (dir. Cynda Beare) at Midsumma Festival 2025, Assistant Stage Manager on Curtains (dir. Roger Hodgman), and Workshop Assistant for the 2024 Season one VCA graduate shows. 

Jude Gaffney has been part of Roller Derby’s flat track revival since its grassroots beginnings in Australia, helping to found Adelaide Roller Derby back in 2007. What started as a small, passionate community has become a powerful movement built on teamwork, resilience, and inclusion. For Jude, Derby has always been for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from, there’s a place for you on the track and in the community.

Amber trained at Flinders University Drama Centre and received the Adele Koh scholarship from the Stella Adler Company and SITI Company in New York. 

Theatre credits include Girl Asleep, School Dance (Windmill), Orlando, Master & Margarita, Stop Girl, Dance Nation, Bliss, Atlantis, Twelfth Night, Angels in America, The Power of Yes (Belvoir), Bananaland (Brisbane/Sydney Festival), A Model Murder (LPD Productions), North by North West (MTC/Kay McLean Productions), Top Coat, Banging Denmark, Rules for Living, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Popular Mechanicals, War of the Roses, The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Lost Echo, Gallipoli, The Art of War, Mother Courage, Her Children (Sydney Theatre Company), Photograph 51, A Broadcast Coup, The Appleton Ladies Potato Race, Tribes for Ensemble, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Optimism (Malthouse/Edinburgh Royal Lyceum/Barbican London).

Amber has received two Helpmann Awards for her role in Girl Asleep (Belvoir/Windmill) and School Dance (Windmill). 

Elvy-Lee Quici (She/Her) is an Italian-Vietnamese, Australian actor, performer, writer and maker based in Adelaide-Melbourne. Since graduating from Flinders Drama Centre in 2022, she has starred in Wild Orchids, a queer coming of age short film, which she co-wrote and co-directed, and she was most recently seen in Single Asian Female (State Theatre Company South Australia), Dance Nation (Adelaide Fringe Festival), Rising out of Water (SA Playwrights Theatre). Passionate to further her artistry across theatre, film and television, Elvy-Lee hopes to push boundaries and explore intersectionality through storytelling. 

Antoine who also produces under the name Lazy Susan, has lived and worked in Adelaide throughout his professional career and enjoyed work amongst all tiers of the local arts community as both a performer and sound designer. Between supporting independent works in film and theatre, to playing mainstage shows in the Adelaide Festival and touring nationally, he has enjoyed in equal measure the intimacy and expansiveness of these different scales of work. Antoine lives on Kaurna Country. 

Annabel is a queer performer, director, arts worker and Intimacy Coordinator. She has studied with Flinders University, UniSA and Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (USA). As a performer, Annabel has worked with State Theatre Company South Australia, Theatre Republic, Vitalstatistix, Sydney Theatre Company, ArtPop, Windmill Theatre, AKA Productions, isthisyours?, ActNow Theatre, and Foul Play Theatre.  

She has directed work for independent artists, in educational settings, and with Deus Ex Femina, Theatre Republic, and Ladylike Theatre Collective. She has assistant directed with State Theatre Company South Australia and gained awards in 2024 and 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festivals for shows under her direction.  

Aud Mason-Hyde (they/them) is a young queer trans actor, activist and artist. They recently featured in international feature film Jimpa, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025, followed by the Adelaide Film Festival. In 2023, they co- founded TRANSMEDIUM, alongside filmmaker Claud Bailey.

Credits include independent feature 52 TUESDAYS, the ABC six-part series F*&#ING ADELAIDE, and the 2022 short film RIGHT HERE.  

Aud is also a poet, public speaker, and activist. They were the winner of the Rumble U26 poetry slam in 2018 and did a TEDx talk on their lived experience of gender at just 12 years old. They have since continued into ongoing work and relational building within their queer trans communities.  

Benjamin Hancock aka Bendy Ben is an award-winning performance artist who blurs boundaries between dance, drag, cabaret, burlesque, and club scenes. Known for their inventive use of camouflage and masks, Bendy Ben’s personas embrace parallel masculinities and femininities, celebrating queer fluidity and transformation. 

Benjamin has worked with leading choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Prue Lang, and Gideon Obarzanek, and collaborated with visual artists such as Dylan Martorell and Fayen d’Evie. Their performances have featured at major institutions and festivals including Chunky Move, Performance Space, NGV, and MONA. In 2024, Bendy Ben was crowned Mx Burlesque Victoria. 

Maddy (AKA BB Gun) has been lucky enough to have the magic of roller derby in her life since 2008, when she watched Adelaide Roller Derby’s very first season with her dad. She would skate around the track at halftime, soaking up skills from the league’s pioneer, the beloved Barrelhouse Bessy. Maddy joined a junior league at nine years old and played for years, also traveling interstate. After a little break, Maddy came full circle and joined Adelaide Roller Derby in 2023. Maddy now skates with The Wild Hearses and also represents on our Adelaide travel team. 

Maddy skates as BB Gun, her own little homage to the late, great legend and friend Bessy.