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.

Emma is a British actor and director trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. She has been living “down under” since 2018. Credits in London include: the Olivier award-winning 'Goodnight Mr Tom' (West End/UK Tour) 'That Face' (Tara Arts Theatre) ‘BBC Prom 19: Sondheim at 80’ (Royal Albert Hall) Credits in Melbourne include: ‘The Beautiful Game’ (Chapel Off Chapel) , 'Red Hollywood' (MC Showroom) Midsumma hit 'Eyes Wide Woke' (Bitten By Productions) Film & VO include: 'Perfection' which won Best Comedy - Melbourne Short Film Festival '22, radio play 'The Lucas Betrayal' and voicing the Sprinkle Fairy in 'Big Words, Small Stories' an animation series for ABC Kids.

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.

Ellen O’Connor is an independent artist with a multidisciplinary practice incorporating writing, directing, producing and acting. Within their practice they are interested in carving out space for artists to make work that is essential to them, and for audiences to have access to fresh, new theatre. Throughout their career they have predominantly worked with new writing including comedy, drama and musicals. Ellen has a BA in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Western Australia, and studied the Meisner technique under Scott Williams with Impulse Company London. Credits: as director: Softly, Softly (Quiet Roar, 2021), When God Met Satan (Perth International Comedy Festival, 2013), Pity (Fringeworld, 2013). As writer: Burning Woman (R&D, 2018), Fire (WA Youth Theatre Company, 2013), Soho Young Writers’ Programme (Soho Theatre, 2014). As actor: Flooded (earth, Lyric Hammersmith 2017), phroot sahlad (Lyric Evolution, Lyric Hammersmith, 2017), Who Cares (Royal Court, 2015).

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.

Lucy Seale is a theatre-maker and performer who splits her time between directing, playwriting, producing, production management, acting, comedy and circus. For the past few years Lucy has been honing her directing skills through independent theatre company, Shakespearean Jeans, of which she is Co-Artistic Director. Lucy is a proud member of Women’s Circus where she enjoys training in aerials, especially trapeze.

As a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne, Lucy has spent the last few years heavily involved in student theatre. In 2017 Lucy was the recipient of a directing mentorship from Petra Kalive (Associate Director MTC). In 2018 she participated in the Union House Theatre Writer-in-Residence Program, through which she developed her first full-length play, Her Hour Upon The Stage, mentored by playwright Marie Lourey. In 2019 Lucy directed the MUDCRABS’ (Melbourne University Comedy Revue Board) weekly show Rowdy Laughter, for which she wrote and performed across three years.

Lucy was recently honoured to receive the Robert McDonald Memorial Award through Union House Theatre, which granted her a professional development attachment with MTC. In 2020, she had the pleasure of working as Assistant Director for Complete Works Theatre Company. She is delighted to be joining wit incorporated as they take on this darkly humorous Australian play.

Website: https://lcrseale.wixsite.com/lucyseale