Living Legend of Melbourne Fringe & Former Head of Movement at the Victorian College of the Arts

Helpman Award-Winning Music Director, Composer & Theatre Visionary

Award-Winning Writer & Artistic Director of Riverland Youth Theatre

Star of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Theatre, Film and TV Actor,

Artistic Director of Arena Theatre Company

Comedian, Improvisor, Writer, Film Maker & Actor

Marruk Project Director, Didgeridoo player, Aboriginal Educator & Alumnus of the Fairfax Youth Festival and The Marruk Project

Actor, Singer, Cabaret & Theatre Maker

Multi-award winning community cultural development artist and theatre maker.

Artistic Director Rawcus Theatre

Contemporary Indigenous Artist, Cultural Facilitator and Storyteller

Percussionist, Musician, Sound Designer & Community Artist

Creative Producer from D’Faces and Drama Tutor

Performer, theatre maker & Creative Producer of the Marruk Project

Writer, Curator, & Theatre Maker

Clown, Comedian, & Theatre Making Superstar

Musician, performer, & and Marruk Project participant support

Award-winning filmmaker, director, producer

Creative producer, writer, performance-maker and community organiser

Multi-award-winning playwright, composer, director, designer, dramaturge and educator.

Director, Theatre Maker, Broadcaster & Artistic Director of the Fairfax Youth Festival

Theatre Producer, administrator and the CEO of Regional Arts Victoria

Rinske has over 40 years’ experience as an actor trainer, director, and theatre maker. Until recently, she was a lecturer in Acting (Actor’s Body) for VCA Theatre, University of Melbourne.

She works in the independent performing arts industry in a range of capacities, as director, movement coach, performance mentor and dramaturge. Rinske is an experienced communication and presentation consultant and works across academia, business, community organisations and the performing arts, specialising in relational, spatial, vocal, and non-verbal behaviour.

Rinske Ginsberg trained as an actor at the VCA. She has over 40 years experience as teacher, performer, movement educator and dramaturge in theatre education institutions (VU, Deakin University, VCA&MCM) and in the performing arts industry.

Her performance practice is predicated on motional improvisation, physical theatre and physical approaches to performance making. Most recently she was the movement coach on the award-winning Blood on the Dance Floor (Jacob Boehme/Ilbijerri 2016/17) Rinske is a Master of Theatre Practice (VCAM 2009) and has been a lecturer in movement and performance making in VCA Theatre since 2010. In addition to her academic work, Rinske maintains numerous professional associations in the independent arts community. She currently sits on the Green Room Independent Theatre panel, the Melbourne University Theatre Board and Poppy Seed Artistic panel. She has had a long association with Melbourne Fringe (Board member and Chair 2010- 2013) and was awarded Melbourne Fringe Living Legend Award in 2016. She has consulted to and assessed for various local and state government grant programs including Ian Potter Cultural Trust, City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria. Rinske is currently developing her research into non-verbal communication, physical dramaturgy and the use of theatre training techniques for developing skills in teaching and learning across academic disciplines.

Lachlan Woods graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009 (BA Fine Arts - Acting). He is an Australian actor and creative practitioner who most recently played Draco Malfoy in the Australian production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Michael Cassel/Sonya Friedman Productions). Lachlan also works as a voice over artist and photographer. He has photographed some of Australia's finest actors and voiced countless local and international campaigns for diverse brands including Ford, Nintendo, Extra Gum and Coca Cola. He was an Artistic Associate of the award winning physical theatre ensemble OpticNerve.

His professional acting credits include Orsino in Twelfth Night, Lennox in Macbeth, Nino Sachetti/Mr Norton in Double Indemnity, Guildenstern in Hamlet, Dorset in Richard lll (Melbourne Theatre Company); Leonard in North By Northwest (Melbourne Theatre Company/Kay & McLean Productions) TBC

Kat Kats has been significantly involved with the Fairfax Festival and the Murray Mallee region since 2018. This has included acting in multiple roles to support Fairfax and to champion the creative practice of young people in the Murray Mallee. In 2018, Kat supported the social media, marketing, and community engagement of Fairfax to build audiences and to create better storytelling and public engagement.

In 2019, Kat was a Fairfax artist and built two ambitious works - one was a short film project SHIFT F Feels with over 20 young people from Toolebuc, which premiered at the 2019 Festival. She also presented an extraordinary performer of her script Alcestis, which had a huge impact on the young audiences of the Fairfax Festival. So much so that in 2020 and 2021 Kat became a regular mentor in the Fairfax Ensemble zoom workshops - mentoring young people in writing, devising, and creative practice.

In 2016, her debut play (in)tent premiered at the Melbourne Fringe Festival to sold-out audiences. In 2017 she was awarded a three-month residency at the Abbotsford Convent, culminating in a development season of her play Disgust, which then went on to have a full season as part of La Mama Theatre’s 2018 Winter Program.

In 2018, she was awarded an Ian Potter Grant to travel to New York, where she staged a reading of 'Scotch and Handsoap,' and seconded with 7 Daughters of Eve. Kat’s work ‘Alecestis’ was performed at the Queenscliff LIterary Festival and at the San Hill Regional Gallery.

In New York she staged a reading of her play, Scotch and Handsoap, and worked with 7 Daughters of Eve and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

In December 2020, the first iteration of Awaiting Your Response was presented as part of the Buffer Fringe Festival in Cyprus. Kat created an immersive experience to listen to 134 love letters, written from her grandfather and grandmother in 1963/64, with audience members using QR codes and following maps and posters around the North and South. It was a powerful and cathartic experience. What emerged from this project was a multi-generational, multi-lingual, multi-modal exploration of love, culture, aging and what it means to be displaced.

Kat was a curator for the 2022 Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus, curating and programming artists from Cyprus, France, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Greece, and Kurdistan. Kat presented a keynote session at the Festival Academy Atelier Nicosia and led the development of her performance work Awaiting Your Response with leading Cypriot actors Popi Avraam and Antonis Katsaris and internationally acclaimed Cypriot folk pop musicians Monsieur Doumani.

Kat has trained alongside Australian artists Jenny Kemp, Raimondo Cortese, and New York artists Sibyl Kempson, Mac Wellman, 7 Daughters of Eve, the New York Theatre Workshop, and the Centre for Performance Research Brooklyn. at holds a Masters in Writing for Performance from the VCA.

Morgan Rose was born in New Orleans, grew up in New Mexico, and currently lives in Melbourne. She is an internationally produced playwright, performance maker, and dramaturg. Her work is contemporary and darkly funny, with an element of absurdism. She is interested in everyday people with extraordinary stories (or perhaps extraordinary people with everyday stories). In addition to her text-based work she has a background in physical theatre and devising. She has studied with SITI Company (NYC, USA), Pacific Performance Project (Seattle, USA), Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre (Brisbane, Australia), and Dairakudakan (Hakuba, Japan).

She completed a Master of Writing for Performance at VCA in 2013. In 2020 she was a dramaturgy placement with Malthouse Theatre as part of the Besen Family Artist Program. She was a recipient of the INK writing commission with Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2014 and again in 2018. Recent works include: Virgins and Cowboys (writer, Theatreworks, Griffin Theatre), Everyone Is Famous (writer, Riot Stage/Speakeasy), Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise (writer, MKA/MTC NEON), The BachelorS17E05 (co-creator, The People/La Mama), desert, 6:29pm (writer, Red Stitch/Wuzhen Festival/Currency Press), and little girls alone in the woods (Canberra Youth Theatre/Currency Press).

Morgan was resident writer at youth company Riot Stage for 10 years and co-founder of the company The People. She the current co-artistic director of Melbourne-based company Rawcus (rawcus.org.au). More info on her work at roseisnotarose.com. She is left-handed.