Stephen Phillips - Actor

Stephen is a Melbourne based actor, voice artist, performance-maker and teacher and is a 2002 graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, School of Drama. He has appeared variously with several Australian main- stage theatre companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Malthouse Theatre, Black Swan, Belvoir and has toured internationally with Complexity of Belonging and Lucid for Chunky Move. 

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Fleur Dean- Actor

Fleur is a theatre maker, puppeteer, performer, set designer/builder, advanced rigger, rope tech and arts for social change practitioner working with disenfranchised communities for three decades. Fleur is the director of the all abilities Do You Dare Me To? wing of 5AM Physical Theatre’s The Bells and a Green Room Award nominee for her set design/construction for Emma 

Hall's World Problems. A survivor of a few near-death experiences, Fleur creates work that engages audience in liminal experience, encouraging fresh perspective to challenging themes and empathy for otherness. 

 

Joseph Lai - Actor 

Joseph is a Chinese Australian performer based in Melbourne, with a passion for movement practices. Since graduating the Victorian College of the Arts Joseph has pursued this passion by devising and producing shows with his physical theatre company The Human Project, receiving his level 2 Certification from the Society of Australian Fight Directors Incorporated, and completing an Honours degree researching theatrical play. In 2018 he received the Ian Potter Travel Grant to study clowning at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France and collaborate with Rapier Wit Stage Combat school in Canada as a movement practitioner. He is currently working with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and About Face Productions, developing their 2021 production of Peter and The Wolf at Hamer Hall. 

 

Julian Dibley-Hall - Actor 

Julian trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) earning a B.FA (Theatre Practice). He is the co-Artistic Director of Melbourne independent theatre company the voice in my hands (VIMH) having previously held the roles of Associate Artist for New Writing and Company Producer at VIMH. Julian has worked since 1997 in many capacities in theatres including as an actor, dramaturg, stage manager, sound designer and assistant director. He was the co-founder and producer of Bad Ducks Co., has been a teaching artist with both ATYP and The Fairfax Youth Initiative and has toured nationally and internationally as a performer. 

 

Viv Perry - Actor

Viv studied acting through the VCA, 16th Street Actors Studio and the Actors Centre, UK and has since collaborated in theatre and film, most recently performing as ‘The Matriarch’ in the feature film ‘Blood Vessel’ and ‘Jess’ in the indie production of ‘Apparition’.
Over the years Viv has developed a deep connection to physical theatre and has actively been involved in furthering her journey to discover storytelling through the endless possibilities found in movement to express truth and vulnerability. Viv recently has been an active member of Dreamscreen Australia creating characters using Real-Time Virtual technology. 

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Andy Carolane - Actor

Andrew is a Melbourne based actor, director, writer and acting coach with over fifteen years of experience in the industry. As an actor he has worked with some of the most renowned stage actors in Australia including Alison Whyte, Brian Lipson, Greg Stone, Peter Houghton and Andre De Vanny. Most recently Andrew played Marcellus in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet. He also performed as Horatio during the season, having understudied Horatio as well as King Hamlet’s Ghost and The Player King. In 2017 Andrew was the Assistant Director for the VCA’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard III under the directorship of the VCA’s head of acting I Putu Budiawan, performed by the VCA Acting Company 2018. He has also directed Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Metanoia Theatre for the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival. 

Amelia La Haye - Actor

Originally from French Canada, Amelia moved to Melbourne, curious about the body and its movement, to study a diploma of dance. She has performed in music videos- notable one that was released at TEDX Sydney 2019. Testing the limits of travel and interdependence, Amelia enacted a social experiment where she cycled around Europe for 3 months without using any money. Her recently completed studies in anthroposophy have offered new perspectives on performance, physicality and creativity.  Amelia has performed with 5AM Physical Theatre with The Bells for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2021.

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Lyndon Chester - Violinist

Lyndon is a Melbourne-based violinist, composer and collaborator. He has toured internationally, performing throughout Europe and the US as a featured artist with Amanda Palmer. In the US He has contributed to recordings with Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, The Builders and The Butchers, Murder By Death and Zoe Keating and locally with Gemma Turvey, The Jane Austen Argument and Russell Morris as well as performing as an orchestral musician with Orchestra Victoria.  Lyndon has worked as a composer, performer and music director in collaboration with theatre practitioners including, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, The Danger Ensemble, Kel Zeyn and Bakers Dozen. 

Alana Hoggart - Production/Stage Manager 

Alana Hoggart is a project manager, production manager, stage manager and independent producer.
She is currently company/production manager for Born in a Taxi, and stage manager for Back to Back Theatre, with whom she completed a 6 week tour of the USA with award- winning The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes. Alana is project-managing Rawcus Theatre’ public work installation Portal and main stage production, Glass and is producing The Thursday Group. She also runs a large scale installation company Anomaly Productions, who’s flagship show Neon Laneway combines graffiti art and contemporary dance.  Alana’s work has appeared in Melbourne International Arts Festival, Under The Radar Festival New York, WOMADelaide, Splendour in the Grass, White Night, HOTA, Enlighten, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Horizon Festival, Due West, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Upstream Festival Wodonga, ArTour, La Mama and others. 

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