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Thalia Altura: Voiceover & Narration, The Not-So-Secret Door (Calgary)
Thalia is a multidisciplinary Trans Artist based in Moh’kinsstis.
Her most notable role to date was Titania/Hippolyta in Theatre
Calgary’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Her voice acting credit also include Lola, Nanay, Anak produced by Jupiter Theatre’s exp(lore) digital audio theatre experience. You can listen here. A graduate of The Randolph College for the Arts in Toronto, she has been privileged to perform all over the world with Princess Cruises as an entertainer. She has trained, workshopped and performed with Factory Theatre and Carlos Bulosan Theatre in Toronto. Now she performs as a drag artist with Electric Stage Series and numerous festivals in Calgary, Lethbridge and Victoria. When not either performing, playing guitar and writing songs to keep her sanity, she’s passionate about health and wellness, collects niche fragrances and luxury handbags she can’t afford and anything in the world of fashion. Follow her on Instagram for performances updates and new crushes @thaliaaltura
Paul Attanasio: Composer, Who are The Firm? (Adelaide – Grange)
Paul Attanasio is a musician/composer/DJ from Adelaide, Australia, who works under the recording alias ‘Nasio’; specialising in dynamic live performance and music for media. Trained in jazz performance, music composition and creative technologies, he has toured Australia as a drummer/percussionist and holds DJ residencies at some of Adelaide’s finest venues. Working between his studio in the CBD and a recording studio in the Adelaide Hills, Paul creates music using advanced digital technologies, analog instruments and hardware. Previous clients include: Adelaide Fringe, Guinness World Records, SAMFS, Lounge Masters and more.
Find Paul at: Instagram, Soundcloud, or Linkedin
Madonna Barraclough: Artist, Guardian of the Nexus, A Pirate Captain, Rise of the Roaches (Brisbane)
Although she identifies herself as a painter, drawing is the foundation and continuum throughout Madonna’s practice. Live study, whether on a mountain, in a cafe or at a gig, immediately engages her, shaping visual elements into a heightened alter-reality. Ink has been Madonna’s preferred drawing medium for 7 years, as it combines a love of painting and mixed media. Her work explores figures, people’s sense of place, creative expression, relationships between organic and constructed forms, landscape and interconnectedness. She has been a practising visual artist and educator for over three decades holding many solo and group shows, and has collaborated with organisations such as Greening Australia, Reverse Garbage and Oxfam. You can find her at her website: www.madonnasart.com
Ken Best: Artist, The Chapel of Unlove, The Book of the Sun, The Hokey Pokey (Gold Coast)
Ken is a Gold Coast based illustrator who specializes in comic book artwork. He draws scripts for a number of Australian comic anthologies including Decay and Retro Sci Fi Tales (Dark Oz Publications), Tales to Admonish (If Comics), Killeroo Gangwars (Ozone Studios) and Australian Mad Magazine. He is also a published article writer in the strength coaching field. Ken is launching his own comic titled X-TINCT at Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Brisbane. He hopes to one day be commissioned by a major comic book publisher to draw comics on a regular basis. He is married with two adult children. You can see more of Ken’s work at Deviant Art: kdavidbest.deviantart.com or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ken.best.125
Sarah Boese: Artist, Ready or Not (Adelaide)
Sarah Boese is a freelance illustrator based in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied at the University of South Australia and graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication. Exploring a wide range of applications; she is versatile in her approach to creative processes in regards to style and technique. Narrative is the main focus of Sarah’s professional practice, she currently illustrates for children’s literature and is very engaged in game art, concept art, character design and editorial illustration. She is also an emerging street artist and muralist. Sarah particularly enjoys collaborative projects and likes to connect with a wide audience through her work. Check out her work at: http://www.sarahboese.com.au/
Tom Bourne: Narration, The Time Travel Caper (Adelaide)
TOM BOURNE is a Multi-Award Winning Writer, Actor, Speaker and Producer who loves nothing more than helping to breathe life into engaging stories – whether for radio, on-line, animated or live action TV series, or the big screen – which is why he jumped at the chance to voice Adelaide’s wonderfully entertaining StoryCity stories. As well as Acting and Voice Acting, Tom is currently juggling roles as Producer and Co-Writer of the J. Harkness feature film ASH and Producer of the pilot for Best-Selling Author Scott Russell Hill’s TV series SPOOKY PEOPLE. In August 2015, Tom placed in the Top 15 of the 1100 screenwriters from around the world who entered the prestigious 2015 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge. Judges note that Tom’s scripts are ‘Exquisite’ the tension is palpable and the stakes feel high throughout whilst also being ‘Well structured with interesting and believable characters – distinctive and authentic dialog (and) vivid imagery…’ Tom Bourne can be found on-line at http://bourne2.com.au
Mac Brock: Producer (Common Ground Arts Society) (Edmonton)
Mac Brock (he/him) is your friendly neighbourhood queer prairie playwright and producer. Mac has been the Events & Production Coordinator for Nuit Blanche Edmonton, the Market Director for Edmonton Christmas Market, and is currently the Managing Producer with Common Ground Arts. As an administrator and consultant he has supported organizations like Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, the Edmonton Heritage Council, Concrete Theatre, and more.
His play Boy Trouble was nominated for two Sterling Awards and in 2024 he is proud to be the recipient of the Sterlings’ Legacy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Edmonton. Basically, he’s a big words and numbers (and lists) guy. You can find our more about Common Ground Arts Society here.
Nancy Brown: Artist, The Hero’s Apprentice, Deathworks: Training Day, Strange Daze: A Zombie Apocalypse (Brisbane)
Nancy Brown’s background is in printmaking and painting. Artwork has taken her on adventures across Australia. She has travelled with Flying Arts, and has been artist in residence in many schools, communities and festivals. She make banners and flags, creates mosaics for seating, and has painted murals along railway line tunnels, overpasses and other long walls. She also makes art with ceramics and laser cut metal. Fascinated by traditional methods of illustration, she likes to improvise with those techniques in her artwork: www.nancybrownstudio.wordpress.com
Drew Butcher: Composer, Ready or Not (Adelaide)
Drew Butcher (b.1990) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and moved with his family to Adelaide at an early age. His first musical experiences were as a budding Trumpet player from age 9. He transitioned to French Horn at the age of 12, adding the Guitar from 13 where he entered the specialist music program at Marryatville High School. After completing a Diploma of Sound Engineering in 2014 he entered the Elder Conservatorium of Music as a principal study composition student. Since working as a composer, his music has been featured on a documentary in 2014 and a feature length film in 2015 created by students studying at AC arts college.
Ambrose Cardinal: Artist, …and The City Fell Silent, Zodiac Guardians (Edmonton)
My name is Ambrose Cardinal, or “Metismadman”. I am a multi-disciplinary Métis and Cree artist hailing from amiskwaciwâskahikan. I love using bright colors and experimenting with technology as my work attempts to depict the “unseen”, the spiritual connection of my people, to make people know that we are still here.
Victoria Casson: Artist, The Captain and the Curse (Port Adelaide)
My name is Victoria and I work as an illustrator, designer and artist in the beautiful city of Adelaide, South Australia. I use both traditional and digital media and have a particular fondness for watercolour and ink. The creative process – from conceptual design to realisation – never fails to inspire me. I embrace the juxtaposition of naughty and nice and my ladies ‘Joan and Rose’ compliment this approach to my practice.
A range of original prints, artwork and merchandise are available online. For more details please visit me and say hello at joanandrose.com
Remy Catchlove: Artist, The Agency (Barmera)
Remy Catchlove is a stage performer and visual artist from the Riverland. She has been a Riverland Youth Theatre participant for four years and studied visual art for three years. Catchlove’s style is expressionistic painting but she enjoys dabbling in other genres. She draws her inspiration from artists like Reg Mombassa, Edward Hopper and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Catchlove has created many graphic design pieces as well as the flyers for Open Access College’s 2017 Art Exhibition. Catchlove greatly enjoys communicating through art and collaborating with other creatives.
Diomel Chaves: Artist, Zodiac Guardians, Seeing Beyond, Coal Call (Edmonton)
Have you ever seen the sun’s golden light hit the ground as it rises after an evening rain? That is the ever fleeting feeling, the way the light hits and that certain sense of je ne sais quoi that I want to show people and le them feel. Other than that: concept designer, illustrator and forever a student. I draw stuff.
Belinda Cornish: Editor (Edmonton/Calgary/Atlanta)
Belinda is an actor and playwright based in Edmonton. Previous playwright credits include: hiraeth (Bright Young Things/Varscona Theatre); The Garneau Block (Citadel Theatre); Category E (Coal Mine Theatre, The Maggie Tree, Sterling Award), Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre, Sterling Award). As an actor, she has appeared in many productions, and you can catch her this summer in Private Lives with Teatro Live! Belinda is also the co-author of several acclaimed RPG adventures, notably Bookshops of Arkham and Graveyards of Arkham for Chaosium, Inc., and a passionately dedicated volunteer with WILDNorth wildlife rescue. You can find her website here.
Gabriel Cunnett: Artist, The Adelaide Time Caper, The Omicron, 9 Fathom Deep (Adelaide, Brisbane)
Gabriel is a freelance illustrator based in Adelaide. After chancing an entry to children’s book illustration via the Scholastic Young Illustrator’s award (2006) while studying Visual Communication at UniSA, his work gravitated towards characters and storytelling. The resulting Scholastic collaboration Columbia Sneezes was published in 2008. Since then, he has developed a broad illustration portfolio via other published works (The Fox and the Grapes, The Terrible Gadash – Era Publications) and a diverse range of clients. In 2012, he began working with The Klevar Group as a Senior Graphic Designer, incorporating his visual ideas into instructionally designed content for online learning platforms. He continues to work for Klevar as their Creative Director and Lead Designer. Gabriel’s illustrations are created using a blend of traditional and digital media, nudging the boundaries of colour and contrast to create bold illustrations and memorable characters. Gabriel lives in Mount Barker with his two children Thor & Ida. You can find him at: www.gabe.com.au or Facebook: www.facebook.com/gabriel.cunnett.illustration
Tamarack Cunningham: Artist, Boring Old Edmonton (Edmonton)
People keep calling Tamarack Cunningham a folk singer, which isn’t wrong, exactly. Certainly, he has an acoustic guitar and sometimes a plaid shirt, but there’s something different here. Tamarack is best known for playing Métis music with the Cunningham Family Band. His history includes Melafrique (afro-pop), Birch Island (soul-folk) and Day of the Robot (garage rock). His solo work sounds a little bit like all of these things, and not very much like any of those things.
Recently, Tamarack has been exploring the spaces between acoustic and electric, analog and digital, and expanding his capabilities in sound design and production.
Emanuel Dubbeldam: Editor (Edmonton)
Émanuel is a queer and trans artist of Dutch-immigrant and Acadian-settler descent, raised in Alberta’s francophone communities. He has co-hosted the children’s television show ONIVA! (Radio-Canada) since its 2020 season and lends his voice to a handful of characters in animated shorts and series. Émanuel also works in live theatre as an actor, playwright, and translator. He recently completed Mount Royal University’s Professional Editing Certificate courses and has the honour of calling this Story City project his first story editing gig!
Teddy Edwards: Artist, Boring Old Edmonton, Power Play, The Tontine (Edmonton)
Teddy Edwards is a writer, cartoonist, visual artist, etc. from Edmonton, AB.
His work has been featured in SNAPline, Hungry Zine, Capital City Anthology, and many varied self-published projects.
His written style features sharp, fast-paced humour with a subversive, quietly dark quality. His visual style favours thick, striking lines, bold colours, silly situations and subtle emotion. He blogs at his website.
Daniela Fernandez: Voiceover & Narration, Boring Old Edmonton, The Tontine (Edmonton)
Daniela Fernandez is a Latin-Canadian multi-disciplinary performer and emerging sound designer. She is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts program and inaugural recipient of the RBC Horizon Emerging Artists Mentorship Program for Sound Design at the Citadel Theatre. Performance credits include: Guys and Dolls, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arts Club), As You Like It (Theatre Calgary) A Christmas Carol, Jersey Boys, Going Solo! (Citadel Theatre); The Wolves (The Maggie Tree/ Citadel Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Mayfield Dinner Theatre).
Ali Gohar: Voiceover & Narration, Coal Call, Power Play (Edmonton)
My name is Ali Gohar and I am a Voice Actor in Edmonton. I have voiced in commercials, video games, animations, and some other really fun projects. A lot of my work can be seen on my social media platforms and I would appreciate all the support. I am so grateful to have worked on a project in my own city and would be so excited if you all could let me know what you thought! Thank you to Story City for having me and I hope you all enjoy listening.
Sands Gonzaga: Artist, The Treasure of Light (Adelaide)
Sands is a freelance illustrator based in Adelaide, South Australia. He has worked for advertising agencies doing storyboards and has also worked in video game development doing concept design and art asset production. Working mostly in digital media, his work was featured in Ballistic Publishing’s Expose’ 7 art book. He is currently collaborating with a writer friend on an indie comic book, and is always looking for more work. See his stuff at www.sandsgonzaga.com
Luce Hua: Artist, Family Heirloom (Edmonton)
I am a analogue and digital collage artist with cutting evocative placement of images and words thematicized as ‘dark romance’ and ‘doom whimsy’. I typically create rather gruesome, gory, scary looking, and not palatable type of artwork about love, Romance (grand sweeping gestures and the idyllic scene), and romance (eros) because that is how I feel most of the time. These sentiments can become especially pointed in the kind of layering I use to visually and figuratively juxtapose and ‘marry’ seemingly oppositional concepts and symbols.
Sofiya Iurkevych: Visual Artist, Chase, The Not-So-Secret Door (Calgary)
Sofiya Iurkevych is a visual development artist and independent animator based in Calgary. She is a graduate of Alberta University of the Arts and a member of Quickdraw Animation Society. Inspired by her love for mythology, fascination with nature, and passion for Ukrainian folklore, her work explores the surreal and fantastical interplay of characters with magical, mysterious, and dark settings. The main medium of her work is digital 2D illustration and animation with strong emphasis on mood and atmosphere.
Thomas James: Composer, The Captain and the Curse (Port Adelaide)
Thomas James’ current musical work is influenced and informed by post-graduate studies in interactive digital media and design. His music inhabits the space between genres, distilled into a consilient audiatory stew and destined for incorporation within new media art. Born and raised in SA, he returned from Western Australia to live in Port Adelaide in late 2014. Thomas has been twice nominated for the Western Australian Music awards Song Of The Year contest, under the moniker tOmNtum. He began his musical career at the Digital Art Studio, Film and Television Institute, Fremantle. You can find more from Thomas at: https://soundcloud.com/verterstudios
Thom Lion: Sound Engineer, The Time Travel Caper (Adelaide)
Thom Lion is a respected sound designer, radio producer and songwriter – hailing from the western suburbs of Adelaide. He has won multiple awards for his work in radio advertising, and is known for his creative flair and strong directional skills – continuously extracting the best out of actors & voice talent throughout his collaborations. His distinct song writing has garnered praise from around nation, gaining airplay on Triple J, Double J and a raft of community stations across Australia. Raised by free spirited parents in the 90’s, Thom was allowed to decide his own middle name at the age of 4. Having an obsession with lions, at a time when “The Lion King” and Elton John were burning bright in his life – Lion is what he chose. You can find him at: http://www.thomlion.com or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThomLion or Twitter: @Thom__Lion or on Instagram: @thomlion
Nastassia Mihalicz: Visual Artist, A Spy Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Lab, Heartbreak Speedrun (Calgary)
Nastassia Mihalicz is an illustrator and visual development artist based out of Calgary, Alberta. She graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2019 with a Bachelor’s in Visual Communication Design. Inspired by fairy tales and the natural world, Nastassia combines digital and traditional art-making processes to create playful illustrations imbued with story. Her previous clients and showcases include: the Winter 2024 carya and CAAF Community Mentorship & Studio Residency; The Speech Development Lab at the University of Calgary; The Addictive Behaviours Lab at the University of Calgary; The Ni’gweg Collective; The Naked Leaf; and Studio Y Creations. When not drawing, she can be found haunting bookstores, volunteering, and making terrible, terrible puns.
Michael Moebus (Aka Meem): Musician, Parracons (Parramatta)
Since 2007, Michael Moebus (aka Meem), has worked extensively throughout Sydney facilitating music production workshops and developing audio, film and theatre based creative projects. Michael has worked with organisations including Heaps Decent, Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre, The Opera House, Milk Crate Theatre, West Words, Sydney Story Factory, Hack Sounds, Futureskool, KARI, and The Department of Education, running projects in High Schools, Intensive English Centres, Juvenile Detention, Occasional Care centres, Theatres, and Youth Centres. Since 2014 he has held an artist in residence position at Woniora Public School for the international Room 13 project, has worked on the annual Story Weavers Project at Rivendell School from 2016, and was key artist and sound designer on all major projects at Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre between 2008 – 2014. Public exhibitions and events featuring work from these projects have been held in venues including the Museum Of Contemporary Art and The Opera House.
Clare Neal: Artist, The Infected, The Great Gabba Mystery, The Curse of the Bramble Spirit, The Escape of Bloggo: Creature of the Maiwar (Brisbane)
Clare Neal is a Brisbane born artist with a passion for all things creative. With drawing as one of her oldest interests, she began to formally pursue art under the anagram Realclean in 2014 and has done so ever since. Juggling university and a variety of quirky jobs, Clare finds time to explore art in all of its forms and build upon her skills, in the hopes that someday creativity can become her livelihood. You can find her at: www.rlcln.com and www.facebook.com/rlclrnl
Amanda Ng: Artist, Who are the Firm? (Adelaide – Grange)
Amanda Ng is an illustrator and visual artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated from the University of South Australia in 2014 with a Bachelor of Visual Communication (Illustration). Amanda specialises in watercolour, ink painting and drawing, and uses tone and expressive lines to convey emotions and stories in her images. Inspired by human expression, movement and mood, she has a passion for portraiture, creative typography, storyboard making, and character design. She enjoys working on her own as well as in collaboration, and is open for full time work, part time work and commissions.
You can check out her art at: http://www.amanda-ng.com/
and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amandangart/
Vinh Nguyen: Filmographer, Parracons Poetry (Parramatta)
Vinh Nguyen is a filmmaker with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communications from UTS. A freelancer under his business Blatant Labs, he has produced engaging work for clients including Western Sydney University, Cancer Council and Headspace. His films ‘Bliss’ and ‘Handy’ have been screened at Cannes and nationally around Australia.
Erin Pettifor: Voiceover & Narration, Seeing Beyond, … and The City Fell Silent (Edmonton)
Erin Pettifor is a multi-disciplinary queer theatre artist based in Treaty 6 / Edmonton. In the 2023 Edmonton Fringe she premiered her show Stigma, Pistil and Style, directed by Jacqueline Russell with Wee Witches. Erin performed in Larrikin Entertainment’s new musical, WYRD, a thrilling musical with themes on patriarchy and the cycle of abuse that toured through beautiful Yukon and Victoria, BC in 2023. She has co-created and performed multiple physical theatre pieces often inspired by feminism and absurdity. Erin has several performance credits from the Edmonton Fringe Festival, independent local productions, workshop readings, and theatre for young audiences. She celebrates art in its many forms for its ability to honor the human experience.
Adam Richie: Composer, The Treasure of Light (Adelaide)
Adam Ritchie has an extensive history in the Australian original music scene as a performer/composer for over 20 years and has also been widely known as an experimental and improvisational artist for many years. Specialising in guitar, bass and electronics, Ritchie melds and shifts between various genres with a creative and unique sound stamp whether this is for live performance, sound design, film scores or audio installations.
Further information of past projects, current works and social media platforms can be found at aritchie.com
Schae: Composer, The Infected, The Great Gabba Mystery, The Curse of the Bramble Spirit, The Escape of Bloggo: Creature of the Maiwar (Brisbane)
Part-musician part-sound designer, Schae considers Ableton to be his instrument, and has integrated his sound for films, theatre, and site-specific works. He specialises in recording the ordinary and transforming it to create the surreal. With a DJ background, he has an understanding of listeners psychology and by studying a Bachelor of Entertainment Industries and Music at QUT – he knows some handy big words. His credits include co-founding Terra Nemo Theatre Company and designing original sound for all its shows so far (2013-2015); Rabbar (Vena Cava Productions, Anywhere Festival 2015), and (im)permanence (FAST 2014). His future aims will see him integrating his new-found captivation for cymatics (visualising sound) with theatre, concerts and nightclubs. His portfolio can be found on soundcloud.com/djschae Schae is collaborating with Sam Henry, who goes under the name Fly Free, another Brisbane-based musician/sound designer. You can find his work on soundcloud.com/flyaus
Will Scott: Musician, Seeing Beyond, Coal Call, The Tontine (Edmonton)
Will Scott is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist, music teacher, and recording engineer residing in Edmonton, AB, Canada. He currently performs in local experimental improvisational act Pigeon Breeders, as well as the pretentiously titled Will Scott Band. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Mile Zero Dance. His previous credits include Brazilian Money, The Wicked Awesomes!, MS DOS, and the University of Alberta’s improv collective XiME. He has collaborated/improvised with many musical artists, including Scott Smallwood, Smokey, Jung People, Tim Mikula, as well as various dancers from Mile Zero Dance, Good Women Dance Collective, and KO Dance projects.
Eleanor Stankiewicz: Narrator, Parracons Poetry (Parramatta)
Eleanor graduated from NIDA in 2013 and was awarded The Australian Voice Association’s Student Encouragement Award. Since graduating from NIDA, Eleanor has worked for some of Australia’s leading theatre companies. This work has seen her travel across the country performing in classical and contemporary productions, including as Catherine in State Theatre Company of South Australia’s critically acclaimed Neighbourhood Watch directed by Julian Meyrick. In 2016, Eleanor toured with Bell Shakespeare as part of The Players. While at Bell Shakespeare, Eleanor also appeared as Helena and Starveling in their education main stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2018, Eleanor will be travelling Australia and New Zealand performing four shows with Poetry In Action.
Time Keeper Music: Composers, Guardian of the Nexus, A Pirate Captain, Rise of the Roaches (Brisbane)
Time Keeper Music is the evolution of two Australian Composers, Kathleen Tully & Ian Symons, who have over 25 years’ experience and write in over 20 genres of music. Their first album together is named ‘Acoustic Mapping’ and comprises of stellar musicians from all over Australia and New Zealand including: Sally Jefferys, Michaela Burnett & Piri Broughton, Karl Schultz & producer Scott Mullane to name a few. Time Keeper has written across many different formats from website backing tracks to music for Company Training Videos. Recent projects include the Opti-minds 25 year celebration song which was played for the first time at the Opti-minds National finals at the University of Queensland. For further information: www.timekeepermusic.com
Briana Trotter: Narrator & Voiceover, Chase, The Not-So-Secret Door, The Spy Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Lab, Heartbreak Speedrun (Calgary)
Briana Trotter is a graduate of Mount Royal University’s Theatre Arts Performance Program and has been professionally performing in Calgary for the past eighteen years. Whether it’s theatre, film, dance, commercials, voiceovers, murder mysteries, or dinner theatre, she loves performing across many mediums.Favourite recent credits include being a spokesperson for a local Calgary tech company, singing on The History Wrangler tv show, voicing a few characters in Time Hoppers: The Silk Road video game, directing A Super Duper Mario Musical for Jubilations Junior, and playing the role of Toad, whose voice she unfortunately was not able to use in this project.She is a mom to three amazing boys and has a fantastic, supportive husband whom she loves with all her heart. When she’s not performing, you might find her crushing huge books, volunteering in prison, or getting out into nature.
Mark Tredinnick: Narrator, Parracons Poetry (Parramatta)
Mark Tredinnick, whose many books include Almost Everything I Know, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, and The Little Red Writing Book—is a celebrated poet, essayist, and writing teacher. His next Australian collection of poems, Walking Underwater, will be published by Pitt Street Poetry in early 2019; a fourth collection, A Beginner’s Guide, appears in the US (Hip Pocket Press) later that same year. He’s just finished a collaboration, A Hundred Miles From Home: One Hundred Haiku, with poet Peter Annand; that work will be published in the UK in 2020. He lives and writes in Bowral, New South Wales; he speaks and workshops widely on poetry, prose and ecology; he teaches at UTS and the University of Sydney. He curates events for WestWords’ Wedderburn Writing Rooms.
Michael Vetsch: Voiceover & Narration, Heartbreak Speedrun, The Not-So-Secret-Door, Zodiac Guardians, Family Heirloom (Edmonton/Calgary)
Michael Vetsch is an Edmonton-based actor, improvisor, and sketch comedian. A graduate of MacEwan University’s Theatre Arts program, he improvises with Rapid Fire Theatre and Sorry Not Sorry Improv – with SNS, he has co-created the format Agent Thunder: An Improvised Espionage. He is also a member of the Edmonton sketch comedy troupe The Debutantes and a player/editor on the sci-fi tabletop podcast Quantum Kickflip. Recent credits include: Ride Lyke Hell with Nextfest, Family Heirloom and Zodiac Guardians with Edmonton StoryCity & Common Ground Arts, The Blank Who Stole Christmas with Rapid Fire Theatre, Ride The Cyclone with Uniform Theatre & SATCo (Sterling awards for Outstanding Fringe Production and Outstanding Fringe Performance by an Ensemble), Ray and Cora with Azimuth Theatre, Word Nerd with Concrete Theatre. IG: @vetschvest
Hans Wackershauser: Voiceover & Narration, Chase, A Spy Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Lab, Heartbreak Speedrun (Calgary)
Hans Wackershauser is known for his versatility as an actor whether it’s on stage, in front of the camera or behind the mic. With over a decade of experience he has played everything from sexy masochists to kitty conspiracy theorists and even timeless interdimensional beings. Recent voice acting credits include Ducksyde Farlight 84 (Lilith Games), Noah Quinn Beneath (Camel101 Games), George Brixley Ready or Not (VOID Interactive), Zakusa Ishigame Cardfight!! Vanguard (Bushiroad), Kongor Super 10 (Young Toys) When Hans is not voice acting you can find him playing video games or at a local brewery winning trivia with his friends. You can also see him as Romeo in the upcoming comedic sensation RIVERONA: The Complete Box Set, playing at Evergreen Theatre Spaces Jun 26 – Jul 14! Hans Wackershauser is passionate about fostering growth in the voice over community. If you would like to learn more about the wide world of voice acting check out his Discord “The Vox Network” where he hosts Voice Acting Gyms. To see more of Hans’ work hop on over to hanswackershauser.com
Lindsay Walker: Composer, The Not-So-Secret Door, …And the City Fell Silent, Power Play (Edmonton/Calgary)
Born and raised on Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg), and currently residing in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), Lindsey Walker (she/her) is an award-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and theatre performer. Lindsey’s music has been described as “achingly sincere”, and “cinematic”. As a theatre creator, Lindsey wrote the score and lyrics for ren & the wake, an original semi-immersive musical that she created with Catch the Keys Productions, as well as creating the music and lyrics for the one-man political musical Amor de Cosmos with Richard Kemick. She is currently working on her latest EP, Something Real, which will be out Fall 2024.
Jed Walters: Composer, The Chapel of Unlove, The Book of the Sun, The Hokey Pokey (Gold Coast)
Jed A. Walters is an award winning composer and musician based out of Brisbane, Queensland. At 24, Walters’ musical career spans over 10 years, including his ongoing work with Brisbane blues rock outfit The Blackwater Fever, contributions to Gold Coast artist Aquila Young and his own electronic project Tesla Coils. Walters has won Best Original Score at the 2012 Griffith Film School Awards for the short film “Legionnaire”, and has performed at festivals including Big Day Out and Byron Bay Bluesfest. His diverse styles in varying outfits, abilities on multiple instruments, and a vast understanding of genre and film scores are what set Walters apart from your everyday musician.
Tim Whitt: Composer, The Adelaide Time Caper (Adelaide)
Tim Whitt is a DJ, producer, composer and sound designer. He has a diverse taste in music from Kylie Minogue, Tom Waits and Major Lazer to Public Enemy and Ennio Morricone but is particularly partial to hip hop and 1970s funk and soul. He enjoys digging for records, working with samples and funk drum breaks and has a strong affinity for 7″ vinyl singles. Tim moonlights as a DJ but is slowly transitioning into producing more music for others and composing for short films, games and television as a way of making money without staying up way past his bedtime, entertaining drunks. As a veteran live performer, Tim Whitt has played at some of Australia’s biggest music festivals: Big Day Out, St. Jerome’s Laneway, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, SPIN OFF and Parklife and supported artists such as: Seth Sentry, Tkay Maidza, Luke Million, Regurgitator and Lindsay Stirling (USA). You can find him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/timwhittsound or Bandcamp: https://timwhittsound.bandcamp.com/releases
Jyn-Ting Ying: Musician, Zodiac Guardians, Family Heirloom (Edmonton)
Jyn-Ting Ying 應琬霆 (They/Them) is an artist, composer, and musician based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Treaty 6 Territory, or what is now known as Edmonton. As a performer, they can be found playing shows with Sorry Not Sorry Improv, accompanying local school choirs for masses and concerts, and playing solo sets at festivals. Jyn-Ting’s current compositional focus is to write and release their debut album, with one of the tracks being featured at Dragon Fried Rice, an Asian-focused art exhibition, in early 2024. Jyn-Ting is also a passionate educator, teaching private piano lessons to a diverse base of students and speaking at universities.