Charlie Lee is a production designer, artist and performance maker from Aotearoa working across dance, text, costume making and film. Led by queer/trans* ecological methodologies and aesthetics of collapse, they make work which sits in in-between zones, precarious balances, and feelings of anticipation. Charlie is interested in how design and materials can act as choreographic agents, and problematise dualistic understandings of the body and world.They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent design projects include short film Emile is Missing (2024), and dance works Time Under Tension (Luke George, 2024), and Air Hunger (Lucy Eidelson, 2023). They were also part of the Emerging Writers Program at Seventh Gallery in 2024, and continue to co-facilitate Trans Ecology Club, a reading and project group.

Iris Elgar is an independent dance artist living on Wurundjeri country. Their practice involves choreography, improvisation, performance installation, and costume-making. Iris is invested in exploring the relationship between the audience and the performer, often participating in performance modes that rattle this relationship. Within their work, they engage with queerness, fantasy, failure, and nature. Shaped by their training in ballet and contemporary dance, alongside their love for literature and the outdoors, Iris moves through imagined worlds.

Chiara Wenban (she/they) is a Naarm-based multidisciplinary designer for live performance, working across lighting, set and costume design. Chiara is passionate about crafting innovative scenography through collaboration. Within this work, sustainability, queerness and intersectionality are integral aspects of her practice.

Chiara’s credits include Theatremaker on the development of Beneath Our Feet (created by Sophia Derkenne and Lauren Swain) at Monash University and Lighting Designer for Creatures of the Night at SAGA Gallery in 2025. Chiara worked as Co-Set Designer/Costume Designer for Blackout Songs (dir. Tom Healey) at Red Stitch, Lighting Designer for Oshun (dir. Jaime Wilson) and Transwoman Kills Influencer (dir. Emmanuelle Mattana) at La Mama Theatre in 2024. Chiara was a Hansen Graduate Designer with Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre throughout 2024.

Clio Greig is a musician, artist and composer born and based in Naarm (Melbourne). Their practice is centred around improvisation and exploration of sonic space on the electric bass, using extended techniques in a variety of styles and genres. They play with unconventional ways of producing sound, focusing on the process of discovery and ‘play’ within their work. They combine their musical and artistic practice, improvising in response to text and graphic material created through printmaking techniques. Clio is currently studying Jazz and improvisation at the VCA and plays in psych jazz/noise rock band BIGCAT. They also run monthly jam session SPACEJAM, a community focused initiative for women and gender diverse musicians of all skill levels.

Sam Carson is a Melbourne-based trans filmmaker and a graduate of Film and Television (Bachelor with Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts. Carson’s practice explores the intersections of the body and technology through a trans lens. Her recent works include Emile is Missing (2024), a short film about transness and digital disappearances, Body Cosmos (2024), an exploration of embodiment through AI and surveillance imagery and The Last Cinema (2022), about cinema clerks tending to a collapsing theatre (Winner: Best Experimental Short – Sydney Short Film Festival).

Angie Collins is a contemporary dancer originally from Lutruwita/Tasmania. She works with sound, movement and theatre – mixing mediums to explore landscapes, people and textures. She has dabbled in puppetry with Terrapin, performed in many contemporary plays, danced site-specifically with STOMPIN and makes sounds with accordions, whistles and melodicas. Since moving to Naarm in 2025, Angie has been exploring new places and new faces while studying Sound Production at RMIT and dancing with Yellow Wheel.

William Palazzo is a composer and songwriter. His works are a hybrid of sweet orchestrations and unusual sounds sourced from the deep recesses of the internet. The result is a bewildering and addictive spiritual mesh. Recent works include short films Body Cosmos (2024) and Emile is Missing (2024), as well as the video game Brine Pool (2025). William also serves as the lead creative director, producer and songwriter of the musical project “Oh Francis”, debuting with Vacations in America in June 2025.

Charlie would also like to extend thanks to Sophie Bonollo, Félix Morreo Zisserman, and Xanthe Beesley for their support.