Sam Halmarack is an experienced sound designer and composer having worked on a wide variety of theatrical productions since 2007. Sam enjoys being involved from the early stages of research and development to contribute and help shape a show. He has a balance of creative and technical skills which mean he can come up with an exciting idea and then be able to implement it within budgetary and time constraints. He has collaborated with many different artists and formed part of creative teams to support and respond to the vision of directors. Sam creates his own work which has taken him to San Francisco, Melbourne and across the country and won 4 and 5 star reviews from The Scotsman, The Skinny and a nomination for the Arches Brick Award. He has produced music for online adverts which have received over 2.3 million views. Sam has led sound design workshops for artists, young people and adults. He has mentored individuals and small groups through the process of sound design in theatre.

Jof is a multi-art performer, producer, curator, facilitator, musician and lecturer making work internationally from his home base in Melbourne. He creates large-scale installation/theatre works with, and for, the community that celebrates our diversity and brings people together in hilarious and unlikely situations. Sam’s work moves between live art, music performance and theatre, blurring the lines between the personal and the fictional.

Dr. Corrina Bonshek is an Australian composer whose music is inspired by sounds and patterns in nature and her meditation practice. Corrina’s music has been performed around the world (USA, Indian, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, UK, and Australia) in concert halls, galleries, parks and non-arts venues. She recently composed and directed 90-minute Song to the Earth, a live music installation for string orchestra and percussion for 2018 Bleach* Festival and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Arts & Culture Festival.

Kate Harman is a dancer, performer, choreographer, and collaborator. Her early performance career was spent with Dancenorth Australia and then later PVCtanz in Germany. Since 2013 Kate has been a core artist with The Farm and is Artistic Director of The Farm’s Greenhouse youth ensemble. She has worked collaboratively with The Farm on many projects including Cockfight and was nominated for two Helpmann Awards in 2016. Kate collaborated on The Ninth Wave and TIDE as part of Bleach* Festival and Festival 2018, The Arts and Culture Program for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Ngoc Phan is an actor and playwright. She has appeared in several main stage theatre, commercial, web series, television and film productions. Some of her screen credits include Pawno, Schapelle, The Black Balloon and web series Freudian Slip. A few of her theatre credits include A Streetcar named Desire, Mathematics of Longing and The Village at La Boite Theatre Company where she was also an Artist-in-residence. Her piece in The Village has recently been published. Ngoc is also a teaching artist for Queensland Theatre and NIDA Open. She was a graduate of the WAAPA Acting program.

Christian Tancred is a creative producer specialising in bespoke community and cultural development projects and events. Christian has 15 years as a professional creative spanning theatre, community radio, video, community arts production and artist development. Christian uses contemporary arts engagement and rigorous production and curatorial process to address community needs through place based arts. Projects engage vulnerable members of society to tackle issues including social marginalisation , mental health, child safety, juvenile justice and homelessness .

Salvador Cantellano is a filmmaker and video artist, specialising in exploring themes about cultural diversity and connection to place through the discourse of belonging and identity. His practice is a blend of fine arts, screen media, community arts practice with a hint of pop culture and flair. Salvador uses documentary film techniques such as cinematography, sound design, and voice to capture stories about culture and connection to place. Salvador came to the Gold Coast as a refugee in 1989 at the age of five with his parents who escaped the Chilean dictatorship (1973 – 1992). This experience has played a major role in shaping his artistic practice, growing up seeing the world through a bi-focal lens.

Shock Therapy Productions is a leading multidisciplinary performance company, with its work touring on a national and international scale, as well as being highly regarded in the Gold Coast Arts and Culture Sector. Co-founders and co-owners, Sam Foster and Hayden Jones both have extensive experience in the industry, with both of them working as actors, directors, writers, and producers. Their work has received several accolades, most recently the 2017 Matilda Award for Best Independent Production – “The Forwards”.