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Samah Sabawi

Samah Sabawi is an award-winning playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed play Tales of a City by the Sea was selected for the 2016 VCE Drama Playlist, won two Drama Victoria awards for Best New Australian Publication and Best Performance for VCE and was nominated for Best Independent Production at the Green Room Awards. Samah co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, winner of the Canadian 2017 biennial Patrick O’Neill Award for Best Play Anthology. She co-authored I Remember My Name: Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud, Jehan Bseiso, which won the prestigious 2016 Palestine Book Award. Samah Sabawi is an MTC Connect Cultural Ambassador and a PhD candidate at Victoria University, where she has been awarded an Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship.

Luke Kerridge

Luke Kerridge is an award winning theatre director. His most recent work, Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories (Barking Gecko Theatre Company), won a Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children and was nominated for Best New Australian Work (2016). It has toured nationally (STCWA/AWESOME Arts/QPAC/Arts Centre Melbourne) and internationally (Edinburgh International Children’s Festival/Gulbenkian Theatre, UK). Luke won a Green Room Award for his direction of Dream Home (Darebin Speakeasy) in 2015, with the production nominated for a further 6 Awards. Luke’s other directing credits include: The Exact Dimensions of Hell (MTC Cybec Electric), Eurydice (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (VCA), Group Show (MKA) and Orlando (VCA). Works with young people include: Banjos, Boots & Beyoncé (St Martins/The SUBSTATION), Fitter. Faster. Better. (Tour Director, St Martins/Junction Arts Festival/Darwin Festival) and Tell it Like it Isn’t (ATYP). Luke completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Directing at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2012 where he was the recipient of Grace Marion Wilson Trust and the Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship. He is currently the Artistic Associate at St Martins Youth Arts Centre.

Sun Park

Jean Bachoura

Mark Coles Smith

Tahlee Fereday

Tahlee Fereday is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts. Her previous performances with Melbourne Theatre Company include Astroman, Cybec Electric and First Stage. Other theatre productions include Because the Night, Blackie Blackie Brown (Malthouse Theatre); Alternative Futures (Theatre Works); Love (Dee & Cornelius) and Fallen (She Said Theatre). Tahlee’s work in film includes Foe and Blue Canaries. In television, Tahlee appears in Fisk season 2 and Super Wog season 2, both for ABC TV. As a First Nations and queer artist, Tahlee is an advocate for representation of minority voices on the mainstage.

Current as of March 2023.

Maggie Naouri

Rohan Mirchandaney