(they/them)

Writer/Performer

Zac’s solo performances include still raw (La Boite Theatre, 1995); when i was a boy (Brisbane Powerhouse, 2000; Sydney Mardi Gras Festival, The Performance Space, 2001); between heaven & earth: a bootcamp for your soul (Metro Arts, 2002; Magdalena Festival, 2003; Brisbane Powerhouse, 2006); Queer as Flux (Brisbane Powerhouse and The Blue Room Theatre, 2021; Sydney Opera House, 2022). Zac has also performed with QTC, Strut ‘n’ Fret, Zen Zen Zo, Rock’n’Roll Circus, Flipside Circus, The Party-Line and toured with the Queensland Arts Council. Awards include: 2022 Performing Arts WA Awards for Outstanding Achievement by an Interstate Artist (Theatre) for Queer as Flux; 2021 The Blue Room Theatre Audience Engagement Award and Judge’s Award for Skillful Performance for Queer as Flux; 2009 Matilda Award for Best “Actress” (playing a 9-year-old boy) in La Boite Theatre’s The White Earth; Matilda Commendation and 2001 Mardi Gras Festival Award for when i was a boy; Matilda Special Commendation with The Nest Ensemble for The Knowing of Mary Poppins; and the Philip Parsons’ Prize for Performance as Research twice (for still raw and Cracka Theatre Troupe’s Boneless Chicken Brecht). Zac and Margi Brown Ash are currently writing a new play (Wanderings) commissioned by APT and Pride Australia. Zac is the co-director of The Joy Dispensary and co-inventor of Oom-Pah! (a music theory board game!)

(he/him)

Lighting Designer

Peter is a Perth-based lighting designer. Growing up in the South West of Western Australia. He developed an interest in theatre and production design at a young age, he later studied at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts where he was awarded the 2019 lighting award and graduated with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Lighting & Design). Peter has a multitude of production credits including Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s FIFO (2020) and Dating Black (2021), Fremantle Theatre Company’s Meat (2021), The Nest Ensemble’s Queer as Flux (2021/2) and Genesis for the West Australian Ballet (2020). He works in both creative and technical roles across a range of performance styles including theatre, dance, music and contemporary performance.

(she/her)

Sound Designer

Olivia has performed in theatre and cabaret productions, jazz and dance ensembles and a variety of bands. As co-creator of The Joy Dispensary and Oom-Pah! she also facilitates classes and workshops in dance, singing, music theory, movement meditation and body percussion. She works regularly as a percussionist, performing and co-facilitating African drumming workshops through Talkin’ the Drum and produces musical soundscapes for various events. She is a lecturer/tutor in Psychology of Music at University of Queensland.

(she/her)

Stage Manager/Operator

Maddy is a theatre maker and stage manager based in Perth. She completed Curtin University’s Theatre Arts course in 2017, culminating in writing and directing her first original play, Red Rover and was awarded the inaugural “Haymanite of the Year” prize upon graduating.

In 2019 she participated in ATYP’s Fresh Ink playwright mentoring program and developed her final Fresh Ink piece into a one-woman show, Jungle in Here, that she subsequently produced/performed at FringeWorld in 2022. In 2021 she stage managed the Perth Short+Sweet short play festival and three shows at The Blue Room Theatre (Lindstedt and Davies’ Ugly Virgins, Katie McAllister’s Watch and Act and The Nest Ensemble’s Queer as Flux).

In 2022, she was the stage manager for Morgan Owen’s SIT! (Or I’ll Make You Sit) and Beyond the Yard’s Trust Me, It’s the End of our World After All at The Blue Room Theatre at Queer as Flux at the Sydney Opera House.

(she/her)

Visual Projection Production

Alison is an award-winning, production designer working across the spectrum of the arts. She has been designing sets, props and costumes for more than twenty-five years for every type of live performance art, including theatre, dance, ballet, circus and musicals.

She has collaborated with Zac Callaghan and Leah Mercer on several previous projects. Alison has designed site-specific works in the form of exhibitions, installations, festivals and parades. She has held the position of ‘Senior Exhibition Designer’ at Queensland Museum since mid-2018 and was ‘Exhibition Design Manager’ at Museum of Brisbane from 2013- 2017.

Alison has also worked as a Production and Costume Designer on Film and spent time in film and television art departments. Alison was Lecturer in Design at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne University 2007-2011.