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

JP is known for appropriating traditionally male characters from our theatrical canon and owning them, including Doug (Cosi), Banquo (Macbeth), and Sherlock Holmes. In 2018, JP brought the house down as Tiggy, Teresa and Zoe in Bombshells, then ruled the roost as The Queen in Ophelia Thinks Harder.

For Wit Incorporated, Jennifer 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. JP also designs (set, lighting and graphic) for most of the company’s productions.

Jennifer has performed for Melbourne Shakespeare Company (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Key Conspirators (Resilient Lotus), GJ Productions (Much Ado About Nothing) and Sly Rat Theatre Co. (The Martyrs) and provides mentoring and support to Fringe artists programmed at Bluestone Church Arts Space. JP is an increasingly sought-after director and designer, often for queer and feminist creators and usually for adventure stories.

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.

Kate Hood is the Artistic Director of disability-led theatre company, Raspberry Ripple Productions. She had a career as an able-bodied actor for many years, performing across theatre, TV (Prisoner) and film. She became a wheelchair user a decade ago and reinvented herself as a disabled actor and theatre-maker, finding herself part of a new group of talented writers and performers with disability. At the same time she kept one foot in the mainstream, working extensively as a voice-over artist, performing regularly at the Words in Winter Festival and winning awards for her audio book narrations for Bolinda Publications.

She passionately wants to see the invisibility of disabled performers come to an end. She believes that there is a place across our stages and screens for disabled performers, that their presence will add new dimension to the mainstream industry, and that the best way to advocate for this change is to make work which tells stories of difference. Raspberry Ripple does just that. It makes compelling, inclusive theatre using mainstream and disabled artists to articulate everyday, heroic stories of disabled and non-disabled people living together in the world.

Its first production, Enunciations, was supported by Footscray Community Arts Centre under their Call to Create program 2016. As a Company in Residence at FCAC, Raspberry Ripple is developing a new show, Workshops, Playreadings and a Theatre in Education arm.

Kate is Deputy Chair of Actors Equity’s Diversity Committee.

Kate Cameron

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.

Belinda Campbell (she/her)

• Train Station: Gerry Jones (she/her)

• Bottling Emotions: Joy Fuller (she/her)

• I’m Fine (Punch Myself): Honor Ledge (she/her)

• Anxiety Awards: Host (she/her)

• In Bed With Anxiety: Anxiety (she/her)

• What Not To Say: The Coach (she/her)

• ANXIETY!: Sarah Tonin (she/her) 2019

• Who Wants to be a Waste of Air: Sarah Tonin (she/her) 2020

Jennifer Piper (she/he/they)

• Train Station: Frankie de Clerq (they/them)

• Bottling Emotions: Anne Xiety (she/her)

• I’m Fine (Punch Myself): Dee Pressor (she/her)

• In Bed With Anxiety: Friend (she/her)

• What Not To Say: The Person Who Says (they/them)

• ANXIETY!: Dean Isle (he/him) 2019

• Who Wants to be a Waste of Air: Eddie Fiction (he/him) 2020

• The Preacher: The Preacher (he/him) 2020

Writers & Performers:
Jennifer Piper
Belinda Campbell

The Bowery Theatre, 2020

Director/Dramaturg: Kate Hood
Additional Direction and Dramaturgy: Avery Hutley and Lansy Feng
Production Manager: Lansy Feng
Stage Manager: Henry O’Brien
Sound Designer: Avery Hutley
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Piper
Projection Designer: Jennifer Piper

Bluestone Church Arts Space, 2019

Director: Kate Cameron
Production Manager: Lansy Feng
Stage Manager: Henry O’Brien
Set & Costume Designer: Chelsea Maron
Sound Designer: Avery Hutley
Lighting Designer: Jamie Turner
Front of House Manager: Gemma Carfi
Photographer: Jack Dixon-Gunn