Kate is emerging theatre-make and producer and holds a Bachelor of Performance (Performance-Making) from the University of Wollongong. Since graduating she has taken part in ATYP’s Fresh Ink playwriting mentorship (2018) and NIDA’s Directing Actors for the Stage (2017). She has produced a number of original works by emerging artists in Melbourne and Sydney and has seen successful runs at Melbourne and Sydney Fringes, and presented at La Mama Theatre, The Butterfly Club, The Blood Moon Theatre, and Siteworks. Her recent credits include Producer of Foreign Woman (The Butterfly Club, Blood Moon Theatre, 2018), Producer and Assistant Director of Love Bird (La Mama, 2018), Director of The Last Five Years (2017), Trinculo in The Tempest (2017), Assistant Director of Spring Awakening (2016), Assistant Director of A Little Night Music (2016), and Jill in Equus. Her film credits include Fragmentary (We’re the Weirdos Productions, 2019), and Too Pretty to be Witty (Fresh Blood, 2017). For 2019 Kate has produced and directed Bedtime Stories for Girls at The Butterfly Club’s inaugural one-act play festival and is currently undertaking VIMH’s inaugural mentorship program under Liv Satchell.

Trained at NASDA in New Zealand, Belinda is as an actor, writer, director and children’s drama teacher based in Melbourne.

Known for her immensely hard work and excellent comic timing, Belinda’s recent acting highlights include: the hilarious Meryl, Mary and Winsome monologues in Bombshells, Ginny in the epic prison play Outside In, evil villain The Waster in A Hero’s Guide to Saving the Planet and Macbeth in a gender-flipped production if the same name.

​Co-founder and Artistic Director of Wit Incorporated theatre company, she also runs their children’s drama program, Wit Kids, bringing affordable after school drama to primary aged children.

Belinda’s directing credits include How I Met My Dead Husband, Westerly, Ophelia Thinks Harder, A Scandal in the Weimar and Couch Potato.

She’s written a number of plays, five of which have been staged. ​Fairy Tale News and A Hero’s Guide to Saving the Planet are published by Australian plays, and I Am A Monster was shortlisted for NZ Playmarket’s 2018 Plays for the Young Competition.

Gemma is an actor, writer and director. Since graduating the full-time course at Howard Fine Acting Studio in 2017, Gemma has turned her attention towards completing a Bachelor of Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology. Two years into the four-year course, she has written and directed four films, one of which will be making the rounds on the 2020 festival circuit with another currently entered into the Unscene Film Festival.

She is also co-founder of JuiceBox Films, a film company dedicated to showcasing local Australian content and supporting up and coming filmmakers and actors.

Jack is an actor and photographer from Melbourne. He initially trained as a performer but after hitting the road for several months doing Shakespeare with car-full of stinky actors, he decided to pick up a camera and have a crack at photography. Little did he know he'd become obsessed and now it’s his full time job (in between other theatrical antics he gets up to).

Jack likes people who are brave, nice and tell the truth and he tries to do the same. He’s a big fan of Jeff Buckley and and a band called The Dip who you should definitely check out (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVp9ia0rui8).

Lansy Feng is a Taiwanese-Australian actor, singer, writer, theatre-maker and filmmaker, living and working in Melbourne. Lansy was trained at National Theatre Drama School and Howard Fine Acting Studio full time program.

In 2018, Lansy created the highly reviewed one-woman cabaret ‘How I Met My Dead Husband’ and toured it across 4 different venues in Melbourne for 4 successful seasons. Lansy also performed in several productions including musicals ‘On My Way’ and ‘Fanciful Imaginings’, theatre production ‘Ophelia Thinks Harder’ and the film, Origin. In 2019, she co-produced and performed in ‘Westerly’, took on lead roles in the short film ‘The Purpose’, Altura Learning’s educational film and the short play ‘Under A Rock’ in The City Parks Play production (MWT).

In 2020, Lansy co-created ‘Bits of Wit’, a web series of original works, including the award-winning short film, ‘Of Course I Speak French’. The same year, Lansy took on the role of Artistic Director of the independent theatre company Wit Incorporated. 

In 2021, she performed in the production ‘Every Second’ and was invited by Maribyrnong City Council to perform at the International Women’s Day event. In 2022, she toured her original play 'Dear Mama 親愛的媽媽' across three venues across Melbourne and ended on a high note at the Bowery Theatre. She also performed in the VCA master theatre production ‘Bull’ and plays the lead of the short film ‘String Theory’. 

In 2023, Lansy has filmed a few projects including the web series ‘Til You Make It’, short film ‘The Usual Please’ and ‘Half Sisters’, and theatre projects including ‘#BacchaeToo’ with Peridot Thetare Inc., ‘Bleached’ and ‘I Me She Him 你和我和她和她’ with Wit Incorporated.

This year in 2024, she performed in the play which is based on the  Chinese historial female hero, ‘Farewell Lady Autumn’ with WHAM theatre company, she also played the lead in Small Ripple Theatre’s Mandarin Musical ‘ Hidden Tunes 弦外之影’.

Avery is a simple girl in a complicated world. She's also an accomplished independent musician, producer, sound designer, tech, and performer, who has been lending her expertise and outside eye to productions across Melbourne for the last two years. When not behind the AV desk, you can find her at home recording bedroom symphonies, or out and about performing music and stand-up comedy. Despite all her achievements, she is still persistently terrible at writing bios about herself.

Kate Hood had a full career as an able-bodied actor, writer and director, which lasted for over twenty years. She performed in everything from classics to musicals, working for major theatres (Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company Adelaide, Hit Productions) and commercial production companies (Gordon Frost, Everyday Productions). Some of her credits include Pygmalion, Big River, Buddy and Hotel Sorrento. Her film and television credits include Prisoner, Dancing in the Dust, The Flood and Blue Heelers and she was a main promotional voice-over artist for ABC Melbourne. She has directed for Melbourne Fringe, the Brisbane Festival, Opera Plus and Jane O'Toole Productions.

Over a decade ago, she became a wheelchair user, and began a new career as a disabled actor, writer and theatre maker. She worked extensively as a commercial voice-over artist and won awards for her audio book narrations for Bolinda Publications. She began writing and performing her own work, which includes monologue, short story and spoken word. Writers Victoria awarded her a mentorship to work on her play 'Ruthie'.

She now collaborates with disabled and non-disabled artists as director, mentor and dramaturg. She advocates strongly in the mainstream for performers with a disability, sitting on the board of Arts Access Victoria, founding and co-chairing the Performers with Disabilities Committee and sitting on Actors Equity's Diversity Committee as Deputy Chair.

In 2018 she was Keynote Speaker for an international Arts and Disability Conference in Singapore (ADIC). She is a sought-after speaker and panelist, advocating tirelessly to bridge the gap between artists with disability and artists who are non-disabled.

Her most recent acting and directing credits include That's Why the Lady Needs a Ramp, Contest, The Real and Imagined Life of the Elephant Man, Risky Business, Love Child - Raspberry Ripple Reads, Neighbours, and the Words in Winter Festival. She is an Artist in Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre and continues working as actor, writer and director in the mainstream .

Her theatre company Raspberry Ripple Productions works with disabled and non-disabled performers to make theatre which tells everyday, heroic stories of disabled and non-disabled people living in the world together.

Raspberry Ripple is supported by the Australia Council, Malthouse Theatre, Chapel Off Chapel, Stonnington Council, Darebin Speakeasy, and others and is a Company in Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre.

Kate is excited at the possibilities opening up in her career as an artist with a disability and creative leader, and feels that her years of experience as an actor, writer, director and advocate with a foot in two worlds - the worlds of Australian Theatre and Disability Arts - will serve her well into the future as Artistic Director of Raspberry Ripple Productions.

Chelsea is a set and costume designer who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) majoring in Design Realisation. During her time at VCA she was able to intern on ‘Priscilla: Queen of the Desert’ (Michael Cassel Group, 2018) and ‘Julius Caesar’ (Bell Shakespeare, 2018). Her recent credits include: Costume Designer for ‘August: Osage County’ (VCA, 2018), Technical Designer for ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘The Crucible’ (VCA, 2018), Assistant Costume Designer ‘Rock of Ages’ (WMTC, 2019), Costume Designer for ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ (Highway 1 Theatre, 2019), and Design Assistant/Assistant Stage Manager for ‘Sweet Phoebe’ (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2019).

Henry O’Brien is a young actor/artist who is passionate about the arts, and how they can spark change and create hope in the ever growing turbulence of the world around us.

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Theatre Arts program 2018, Henry has gone on to perform with The Melbourne Shakespeare Company in their rendition of one of the Bard’s earliest comedies ‘Love’ Labour’s Lost’, receiving critical praise for bringing "great presence and comic timing to the role of Costard" -The Dialogue.

Just recently Henry has performed with EbbFlow Theatre Co. in their production of Nick Enright’s hard hitting classic ‘Blackrock’, helping to bring this all too familiar story to life.

Henry is ecstatic to be a part of the team presenting this new development of Lansy Feng’s extraordinary piece, “How I Met My Dead Husband”.

Trained at WAAPA and UWA Jennifer is an actor, writer, designer and director. She is co-founder and Company Manager of Wit Incorporated theatre company. Her work gazes adoringly at feminism, sexuality, gender and neurodivergence, as they rummage around in their pockets looking for their shared identity.

JP loves taking characters from our theatrical canon, created by old white dudes for old white dudes and making them her own: including Doug (Cosi), Banquo (Macbeth), and Sherlock Holmes. In 2018, JP brought the house down as Tiggy, Teresa and Zoe in Bombshells, then terrified the lot as The Queen in Ophelia Thinks Harder.

Jennifer designs (set, lighting and graphic) for most of of Wit Incorporated’s productions, has performed in Ophelia Thinks Harder, Bombshells, Outside In, A Scandal in the Weimar, Macbeth, Couch Potato and Cosi, and directed Fairy Tale News and A Hero’s Guide to Saving the Planet.

Jennifer has performed for Melbourne Shakespeare Company, Key Conspirators and Sly Rat Theatre Co. and provides mentoring and support to Fringe artists programmed at Bluestone Church Arts Space. JP takes great joy both in writing new theatre and in working with other writers to develop and refine their own creations.

Jamie is an actor, technician, and designer. Having trained at Curtin University in Perth and more recently at Melbourne Polytechnic. Jamie has been involved in the technical side of theatrical and event lighting since 2014.

Beginning with small independent works featuring in Perth Fringe World and The Fremantle Arts Festival he has been a part of all aspects of lighting from designing to installing and operating.

Since moving to Melbourne in 2016 he has taken time to develop as an overall technician. Graduating from Melbourne Polytechnic’s Live Production course in late 2018 he has seen much growth in the last twelve months, taking opportunities to design shows for The International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne International Arts Festival, and most recently returning from a tour around Australia & New Zealand with A Taste Of Ireland.