Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Undercover Artist Festival 2021 - Program

Undercover Artist Festival exists to profile and promote outstanding work by performing artists with disability.

The 2021 lineup featured three world premieres – Oliver-Hetherington-Page’s The No Bang Theory, Lauren Watson’s Nerve and The Crooner’s Swinging and Spinning – all debuted on Turrbal and Jagera Country at Queensland Theatre in Brisbane.

Community artists from Screech Arts, The Sunshine Troupe and Access Arts, showed audiences what the next generation of performing artists with disability can do.

And important disability-led conversations, forums, and career development workshops introduced our Career Track, which will be a key focus for Undercover Artist in 2022.

CREATIVE

Disability-led, professional performing arts work.

COMMUNITY

Performances from community arts groups and interactive art for the community.

CAREER

Workshops, panel conversations and professional development.

Day One - Thursday 16 September
Two images side by side of Ruby dancing. She is wearing long black pants and shirt and has short blonde hair.
  • CAREER

Dance with Ruby Donohoe

A black and white headshot of Dan Daw wearing a black t-shirt and looking at the camera. A blue rectangle with the Undercover Artist logo separates Dan's photo from Madeleine Little's on the right. Madeleine has long red hair and is wearing a black top and smiling.
  • CAREER

Disability-led in Practice
Facilitated by Madeleine Little
Panelists: Dan Daw, Racheal Missingham, Pelenakeke Brown, Alexandra Ellen

A red background with Oliver standing in the centre wearing a brightly coloured jacket over a t-shirt with the word 'Bazinga' written across it.
  • CREATIVE

The No Bang Theory
Oliver Hetherington-Page

Lauren pictured mid-performance in close up. She is holding tightly to the leg of her wheel chair asn looking towards the ground. She has dark eye make up on and her dark hair is out.
  • CREATIVE

Nerve
Lauren Watson

A photo from the back of a conference room. People are seated at round tables looking towards a stafe with a woman's face on a projector screen.
  • CAREER

Meeting Place

A brown brick wall with the words Disability Pride spelled out across it
  • COMMUNITY

Disability Pride Wall
Larissa MacFarlane, Jeremy Hawkes, Brenden Borellini 

Day Two - Friday 17 September
Photo credit: Nick Morrissey. Racheal pictured from waist up,, gesturing with one hand. They have long dark blonde hair pulled back from their face and are wearing glasses.
  • CAREER

Workshop: Auslan Dramaturgy of Shakespeare
Racheal Missingham

An abstract black and white image for three faces.
  • COMMUNITY

Je Suis Toi
The Sunshine Troupe

Andi photographed while performing. She is lying down on a green and black tiled floor, pulling a face with her tongue poked out. There is a bright red wooden chair behind her.
  • CREATIVE

Happy-Go-Wrong
Andi Snelling

Alistair standing onstage with a microphone. He is pictured in profile and has bleached blonde hair and is wearing glasses
  • CREATIVE

Comedy Club
Hosted by Alistair Baldwin

A photo from the back of a conference room. People are seated at round tables looking towards a stafe with a woman's face on a projector screen.
  • CAREER

Meeting Place

A brown brick wall with the words Disability Pride spelled out across it
  • COMMUNITY

Disability Pride Wall
Larissa MacFarlane, Jeremy Hawkes, Brenden Borellini 

Day Three - Saturday 18 September
A wide shot of Screech Arts performer Dale on an outdoor stage. He is shown in light, seated in his wheelchair, withe the audience in darkness in front of him.
  • COMMUNITY

Unapologetically You
Screech Arts

A man standing with one hand held out gesturing to the audience. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and dark pants. There are other performers out of focus in the background.
  • COMMUNITY

3 Worlds
Access Arts Ensemble

An image washed in red. A person pictured from the waist up looks directly at the camera, wearing a wrapped head scarf. they have a large nose piercing attached by a chain to their ear, and are holding branches of foliage.
  • CREATIVE

Brown Church
Naavikaran

A black and white headshot of Gayle Kennedy wearing a bowler hat. A blue rectangle with the Undercover Artist logo separates Gayle's photo from Madeleine Little's on the right. Madeleine has long red hair and is wearing a black top and smiling.
  • CREATIVE

Poetry & Prose
Gayle Kennedy, Marissa Ker, Alex Edwards, Alexandra McCallum, Andi Snelling
MC – Madeleine Little

Two men seated in wheelchair wearing black three piece suits and hats. Each is holding a vintage microphone and looking towards one another singing.
  • CREATIVE

Swinging & Spinning
The Crooners – Tim ‘Mac’ McCallum & Tony ‘Dee’ Doevendans

Aspy seated in a theatre full of red chairs. He has his legs extended over the seat in front of him and is wearing a blue t-shirt and colourful pants.
  • CREATIVE

Closing Night Concert
Aspy Jones, supported by MC Wheels

A brown brick wall with the words Disability Pride spelled out across it
  • COMMUNITY

Disability Pride Wall
Larissa MacFarlane, Jeremy Hawkes, Brenden Borellini 

Undercover Artist acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and we pay our respects to Elders, past, present, and emerging. We are committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their unique cultural and spiritual relationship to land, water and seas and their rich contribution to society.

Our Festival partners

This program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council and Creative Partnerships Australia.

Privacy Policy
Privacy Collection Notice
Contact Us
© 2023 Undercover Artist