Marissa is a writer who calls Queensland home. Her writing has been published in Plumwood Mountain and The West Ender and read aloud in Australia and overseas.

She holds a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from The University of Queensland. She also makes theatre as founding artistic director of Lorikeet Players, with a focus on ‘funny stuff with a social justice twist’. She holds a Diploma from Philippe Gaulier Theatre School in France. She is profoundly deaf.

Reputed “Sting of Oz” (FAQ Café, Moscow) in Russia, novelist and singer-songwriter Alex had returned home for further touring in 2015 before yielding to a creative sabbatical in 2016. Here he composed his debut novel “Maradha’s Game”, a legendary science-fiction classic, which at nearly 300,000 words is still being edited in 2021! Before these adventures, his successful east coast tours late 2015 helped cement his debut 20-track release “Flight Frost”.

Personifying “one man and his guitar” (Tapio Ylinen, Eclipse Music), the tunesmith’s journey to “Fealty Fjords” (The 8-track sophomore 2021 EP release) continues, alongside many literary projects!

Alexandra McCallum writes fiction, poetry and performance work. She is also an oral storyteller and community cultural development facilitator.

Her work has appeared in Artshub, Brisbane Modern and Best of Bareknuckle Poet and Bluebottle. Her novel manuscript was selected for the US writers’ workshop Tin House for feedback from Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding. Her scripts for adult audiences have had readings at Metro Arts and the Judith Wright Centre and she has co-written scripts for school touring which were seen by thousands of children around Queensland.

She also facilitated Screech Theatre and The Light Ensemble in which young people with and without disability came together to make new work. She has facilitated numerous other projects and workshops and performed at festivals and galleries around Australia.

Andi Snelling is a multi-award-winning performer, writer and theatre-maker with a special talent for physical storytelling.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts (French & German) and Diploma in Creative Arts (Theatre Studies) from The University of Melbourne, which she completed on a scholarship program at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Andi has gathered many eclectic experiences throughout her international career and is an active voice in the disability arts community. She was honoured to present at Meeting Place 2019 in Canberra – Australia’s annual forum for arts, culture and disability.

Andi is an Ambassador for the Lyme Disease Association of Australia, a Peer Assessor for City of Melbourne, and on the board at No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability. She runs her own business Kick Up The Arts Creative Mentoring, helping independent artists to create and sustain their own work.