Tom Anderson is Eora/Sydney based actor, writer and director. Born on Gadigal land, his theatre credits include performances with Bell Shakespeare, ATYP, Shopfront Theatre, Monkey Baa Theatre, La Boite, and theatrePUNKco, with notable roles in The Lies We Were Told (Best Production for Young People, Sydney Theatre Awards), Just Macbeth, DOGHOLE, DNA, X-Stacy, and Bakkhai. On screen, Tom has appeared in the Stan series Ten Pound Poms, several short films, How To Move, (QUT Film School), Touch, No Strings Attached (Griffith Film School) Unsaid (WaveChild Films) and campaigns for Telstra x Netflix. His play Sickbay—winner of Best New Work and Festival Favourite at the Avalon Awards—has been adapted into a short film, which he will direct, and act in this November. Tom has also worked as a director for La Boite’s Assembly Program, directing Happy Birthday Natalie earlier this year.
A notorious Music Director, Composer, Sound Designer, Writer, Poet, Curator, Theatre Maker, Community Engaged Artist, Auto-Ethnographer and DJ, Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers has been creating fearless art to activate, pollinate and liberate for over 30years. Of Xhosa, Chinese and Indonesian heritage and living on Yuggera country, she has worked across theatre, music, cabaret, circus, visual arts and film creating with festivals, companies and artists from so called Australia, Turtle Island, United Kingdom, Aotearoa and Ireland. Busty is the Co-Creator, Writer and Queen Bee of the genre defying, international smash hit Hot Brown Honey with sold out performances across six countries and five-star reviews, receiving two Green Rooms, a Helpmann Award and the UK Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form. Adhering to a manifesto of creative, collective power through collaboration by using the Arts as a tool for transformation, Busty intersects disciplines, politics and soundlines to bring fierce empowerment through sonic storytelling to the stage, page and screen.
Kian Dillon is a Meanjin-based theatre maker and creative, currently working as a Producer at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. After graduating from QUT’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), Kian co-founded the unapologetically feminist performance collective, T!TS AKIMBO, with fellow creative, Fliss Morton. Dedicated to giving you the sex talk you never had and the one you never knew you needed, in 2022 they produced SEXFEST, a one-day festival of art, performance and talks celebrating femme and non-binary sexuality. More recently, Kian participated in La Boite’s Assembly program, where she wrote FABLE, a new short work that premiered at the Roundhouse Theatre. Kian’s work, and the work of T!TS AKIMBO, wrestles with the contradictions of contemporary feminism, in an attempt to capture the hypocrisies of the Body she owns, and the ones she loves, lives with, and loathes.
Annabel Gilbert is a Meanjin/Brisbane based playwright and director with a knack for the colourful and quirky. Her writing shines a light on darker themes, often exploring ideas of identity and belonging through a feminist lens, in an attempt to encourage audiences to laugh whilst they ponder their place in this life. Annabel’s work has seen her collaborate with QPAC, La Boite, QUT, the Brisbane Fringe Festival and more. Audience members have left her plays feeling seen amongst the silliness.
Grace Wilson (she/her) is a 20 year old emerging playwright living on Yuggera and Turrbal land in Meanjin. At the age of 17, she was shortlisted for the Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights’ Award and won the award in the following year with her work, GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON. Grace has gone on to be a finalist in several other major awards including Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Griffin Award, Martin-Lysicrates Prize, Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable, and the Queensland Theatre Premier’s Drama Award, all of which Grace is the youngest in history to be on the list. She has also been published by Regional Arts Australia, Queensland Writers’ Centre, ATAR Notes Australia, highly commended for the ABC Heywire Competition and longlisted for two commissions (ATYP Foundation Commission and Griffin Award 2024). Grace has also undertaken several playwrighting training programs including JUTE WriteSparks, Queensland Theatre’s Young Writers’ Ensemble, ATYP Fresh Ink Mentoring and National Studio, and La Boite Assembly. She is currently under commission with Observatory Theatre and is set to collaborate with Assembly of Elephants in 2025.
