For the past 18 years in Australia Jude has devised and produced new performance and Live Art works that bring artists together to create participatory adventures for audiences outside the walls of mainstream performing arts institutions. Prior to Australia, Jude worked for 12 years internationally co-creating and directing with renowned contemporary performance companies in Chile, U.S.A, Italy, and France. While directing and teaching at the Centre Dramatique Nationale de Bourgogne and Dijon University, she was co-director with experimental performance group – Compagnie Le Nyctalope, and was associated co-director with Groupe Merci.

Both companies toured nationally and internationally. She returned to Australia in 2001 where she now lives and works in Central Victoria. Since 2001 Jude has devised, co-directed and produced over 50 contemporary performance and Live Art productions both within Australia and internationally. Many have set new parameters for programming and presentation. Her practice focuses on researching and testing conventions of live performance and audience engagement.  Several of her productions have been commissioned and presented by renowned European festivals for experimental performance and the official program of Avignon Festival and she has directed and curated works expressing new forms of audience engagement representing Australia within the European Capital of Culture.

She founded Punctum in 2004 working with over 400 artists to support their practice and new works.In 2018 Jude was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for Experimental and Emerging Art Form and in 2019 was the Green Room Awards recipient of the Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to experimental and contemporary performance. Jude has been a Board member of Regional Arts Victoria and contributes to many local, state and national advisory committees, organisations and grant panels.

Pippa Bainbridge is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative producer and arts manager, currently living in Ballarat on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung. She holds a BA in Drama Studies and a BA in Arts Management from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 2000, Pippa was awarded the Subject Exhibition for Drama Studies by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia and was a semi-finalist in the arts category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards (WA).

Pippa has previously worked for festivals and venues run by Next Wave and Artrage, worked as a Creative Producer at Arts Centre Melbourne, held senior leadership roles at iconic organisations including La Mama, Express Media and Punctum. From 2016-2020, Pippa curated and operated The Burrow, an independent performance venue in Fitzroy.​

She is currently engaged at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and is on the Board of The Pack Music Cooperative.

Pia Johnson is a photographer and visual artist, whose practice seeks to investigate issues about cultural difference, diaspora and identity. She also has a strong practice in portrait and performance photography, working with major and independent arts organisations in Australia. Pia has exhibited throughout Australia, the USA, Japan and Mexico. She has been a finalist in many photography awards, and is regularly invited as a guest speaker and artistic advisor for a range of organisations.

Her work is collected in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria. Recent highlights include a solo exhibition She that came before me (2018) at Manningham Art Gallery, group exhibition All That We Can’t See (2018), her curatorial exhibitions The Family Mantle (2018) and Chinese Whispers and Other Stories (2017), and an artistic residency at National University of Singapore (2018). Pia holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual arts) and Diploma of Modern Languages (Mandarin) from the University of Melbourne, and is currently a PhD (Art) candidate at RMIT University. www.piajohnson.com

Terry Jaensch is an Australian poet/actor and monologist. His first book, Buoy, was published in 2001 (FIP) and shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has worked as Writer-in-Community, Poetry Editor (Cordite) Artist-in-Residence, Dramaturge, Artistic Director of the 2005 Emerging Writers’ Festival, poetry teacher and in a variety of arts/community and local government programming positions. In 2004 he wrote and recorded 15 monologues based on his childhood in a Ballarat orphanage for ‘Life Matters’ ABC Radio – since reworked and performed for theatre as ‘Orphan’s Own Project’. He was awarded an Asialink residency in Singapore where he worked collaboratively with poet Cyril Wong. The resulting work, Excess Baggage & Claim (transitlounge publishing), was launched in 2007.

He has won awards including the Melbourne Poet’s Union International Poetry Prize, the Victorian Writers’ Centre Poetry Slam and was on the winning team of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival Poetry Slam. His work has been anthologized, most recently in Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann) and published in journals nationally and in the US, Germany, Japan, Singapore and India. His poems have been translated into Bengali and interpreted through classical Indian dance. He has a background in acting, having studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio and Stella Adler conservatory in New York.

Sabrina began her arts career as a Marketing and Program Management professional in the Philippines in 2013. Specialising in the fields of arts, cultural heritage and creative economy, working for institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and the Cultural Centre of the Philippines.

She’s worked with several foreign embassies, government, not-for-profit organisations both locally and internationally to facilitate artist residencies in Manila, classical music concerts featuring the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, touring exhibitions, and public programs.

In 2019, Sabrina moved to Australia. In 2021 she completed her Master’s Degree in Cultural and Creative Industries, Monash University.

Sabrina has worked in Melbourne’s cultural scene as an arts professional on community engagement programs at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) 2019-2022. She was Malthouse Theatre’s Marketing Coordinator,  and led season campaigns for 2022-2023 theatre productions.

She is currently in a Program Coordinator role in Asialink Arts where she is hoping to merge her learnings as an arts worker in the Philippines and Australia to help create meaningful projects that showcase the best of Asian and Australian cultures.

Simeon is an experienced creative producer and arts leader who is committed to supporting innovative arts practice, particularly in cross-cultural and collaborative contexts. He is currently a Creative Producer at Arts Centre Melbourne.  Simeon has worked in a range of leadership roles throughout the Australian arts sector supporting the creation, touring, delivery and presentation of diverse works and art forms locally, nationally and internationally, through which he has developed extensive national and international sector networks.

Simeon was the General Manager of Flash Forward, and previously has held Executive Producer positions with the Asia TOPA festival, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company & Snuff Puppets.  Previously, Simeon has also worked as a producer for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and co-founded the Digital Fringe festival, placing emerging artists’ screen-based artworks into public spaces.  In 2005 Simeon co-founded Horse Bazaar, an innovative bar, art space and production house in Melbourne, where he was a co-director for 7 years.

In 2018 Simeon took a 1 year sabbatical travelling remote Australia in a 4WD and living in a tent with his young family, which was the best thing they’ve done together to date.  He has been regionally based in Kyneton for 10 years.

Zoë is an award-winning cellist, composer, performance maker and educator. Her practice is devised and collaborative, drawing on composition, sound design, writing, performing and directing. Her work explores the politics of slowness, meaning-making, and amplifying quiet voices. Her sound collages combine field recordings, text and music, and can be heard in theatre, dance, film and gallery commissions.  She has appeared at/had work presented at Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Opera House, Auckland Festival, Sydney, Perth & Adelaide Festivals, Dark Mofo, MONA FOMA, Supersense Festival, Unsound Festival, Next Wave, Lincoln Centre NYC, Kennedy Centre Washington DC, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, and film festivals including Venice, Sundance and SXSW. Recent awards include Ruby Award: Best Festival Production for The Lighthouse, Green Room Award: Participatory Contemporary & Experimental Theatre for The Ballroom, and the Aria Music Teacher of the Year. Zoë creates immersive installation/theatre works for multigenerational audiences with Patch Theatre, and audio-led works for the digital space with The Threshold. Zoë is a member of The Letter String Quartet and Iranian trio Dafta Avaal, and a collaborating artist with Back To Back Theatre.

Beau is an arts manager with over 20 years’ experience in leading the development and presentation of thrilling multi-discipline artistic festivals and programs, with a specific skill-set in developing arts venues and spaces. Through many years in senior positions at Darebin Arts, Melbourne Fringe, High Vibes, Next Wave Festival and freelance creative projects Beau has extensive experience managing teams, both creatively and logistically, across arts venues, festivals and community partnerships. After initially studying Fine Art Photography, he made film clips, a feature length documentary, has been in and managed bands and has a keen enthusiasm for modular synthesizers.