Stephen Armstrong

Stephen’s principal interest is the creation and presentation (nationally and internationally) of new work across a range of artforms. He has been the Artistic Associate at Sydney Theatre Company since 1999. Previous positions include General Manager of Queensland Theatre Company, General Manager of Chamber Made Opera (which he co-founded in 1989) and General Manager of Handspan Theatre.

A graduate in History and Philosophy of Science at Melbourne University, he has also worked as a Financial Counsellor, University Researcher (English Department), and freelance consultant in performing arts management. Stephen has written about and reviewed new writing and performance and, for the Australia Council, was founding Chair of the New Media Arts Board (and former Hybrid Arts Committee), as well as serving on the Drama Committee and the Performing Arts Board.

In 1999, Stephen presented the Kenneth Myer Lecture and he is currently a Board Director of the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre, Interplay (the International Festival of Young Playwrights), and Chunky Move.

Andrish Saint-Clare

Hungarian-born Andrish Saint-Clare began his professional work as an actor and musician with Rex Cramphorne's "Performance Syndicate", a seminal Australian theatre company working with performance styles from diverse cultures. Andrish went on to pursue dramaturgical and cultural interests, studying, performing and producing in South America, Morocco and Indonesia.

Andrish has also worked extensively with different ethnic communities in Australia, and with Indigenous performing artists. He tutored at the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Skills Development Association in Sydney and has written a number of commissioned scores for NAISDA performances, HAROLD, a full length ballet, as well as for ABC radio, SBS TV, Adelaide Festival, Sydney Carnivale and for various presentations and community events.

Since 1996, Andrish has been based in the Northern Territory, working mainly with Yolngu and Macassarese performers. The Trepang Project, initiated with cultural resource management objectives, has enjoyed wide mainstream and Indigenous support and has resulted in large and successful intercultural collaborations in Arnhemland (1996), Makassar Indonesia (1997) and the Festival of Darwin (1999). Trepang, the stage production written and directed by Andrish has been extensively reviewed and well received in Indonesian and Australian media.

In 2001, Andrish was invited to collaborate with Peggy Patrick and the Neminuwarlin Performance Group to present something of the history and culture of Indigenous people from the east Kimberly, WA. After consultations with traditional owners, which included visiting particular sites and the telling of associated oral histories, he wrote and workshopped a scenario in the Kimberley bush for several weeks. The result of these intense sessions was Fire Fire Burning Bright, which was successfully presented at the Quarry Amphitheatre for the Perth Festival in February 2002.

Helen Simondson

Helen Simondson currently holds the position as the Manager of Events at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI). ACMI is dedicated to experiencing, exploring and enjoying the moving image in all its forms. Located at the art complex at Federation Square, the centre houses a screen gallery, two multi-format cinemas, education facilities, screen lounges and an evolving spectrum of experiences.

Helen has worked as an arts practitioner for many years with undergraduate qualifications in Drama and Dance from Deakin University, Rusden and Post-Graduate qualifications in Film and TV from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Her creative work in the performing arts has seen her in the role of choreographer and movement director for a range of companies and independent projects including the Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, Dance North, Sydney Dance Company, Playbox Theatre and other companies and festivals. She has worked on various dance film and documentary projects since graduating from VCA and was the project manager of stage 1 + 2 MICRODANCE with the Australia Council, Australian Film Commission and the ABC.

Most currently Helen was the project manager of the Performing Arts Multimedia Library (PAML) Pilot Project for Cinemedia, which was a partnership project with DICTA and Multimedia Victoria. This has been an important benchmark project exploring the technical and legal issues relating to the digital delivery of performing arts and the findings of the pilot have been presented in the US and Europe. The Kitchen in New York recently engaged Helen as a consultant to assist the company in developing its technology management policy.

Yuji Sone

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Rachael Swain

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Josephine Wilson

Josephine Wilson is a Perth-based writer and teacher, whose recent work has been mainly in two fields: narrative fiction and writing for performance. Her performance works include The Geography of Haunted Places and Customs. The Geography of Haunted Places, which drew on post-colonial and feminist theory in dialogue with contemporary political issues, received high acclaim when it toured throughout Australia and to London.

With Linda Carroli, she has produced two on-line hypertext fictions: Cipher and Water always writes in plural, the latter being instigated by the Australian Network for Art and Technology. She has also published short-fiction and is currently completing a novel.
Josephine tutors at Murdoch University in Creative Writing and Hypertext.

Angharad Wynne-Jones

Angharad Wynne-Jones is originally from the UK where she worked as a theatre practitioner with the company Industrial and Domestic Theatre Contractors, having trained in dance at Dartington College of Arts, and as a theatre producer at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Angharad moved to Sydney in 1989, where she formed Cake Eaters Productions, a performance company specialising in large scale site specific events. Angharad took up the position of Director of Performance Space in January 1994. Under her directorship, Performance Space produced a range of hugely successful multidisciplinary events such as the food and performance festival A Progressive Dinner, Pacific Wave, a festival celebration of Pacific visual and performance culture, the highly acclaimed co-production with the Sydney Festival of The Aboriginal Protesters by Mudrooroo ,which toured to Germany, and the visual arts project Big New Sites, situating the work of contemporary artists in cinemas nationwide to audiences of over 7.5 million.

Angharad has always been a strong supporter of the development of contemporary dance, initiating the highly successful Antistatic dance festival at Performance Space which featured international choreographers holding workshops for professional choreographers. She collaborated with Gideon Obarzanek in the successful tender to set up Melbourne based company Chunky Move in 1998, and as Executive Producer was responsible for producing and touring contemporary dance productions nationally and internationally.

In 2000 she was invited by Peter Sellars to join him as an Associate Director of Adelaide Festival 2002. She left the position in May 2001 for maternity leave and is currently a freelance consultant/producer.