Based in Perth, Western Australia, Cezera is a proud Nyoongar and Greek artist whose passion for theatre started when she was a kid. As a teenager, she branched out into writing her own work, participating in Yirra Yaakin Writers’ Group. She completed the Aboriginal Performance Course at WAAPA in 2018.

Since, she has worked with a number of companies in both acting, writing and directing positions. Most recently wrote and starred in her debut play Salted Pretzels at The Blue Room Theatre with APK Productions and directed ALL BOYS with every other theatre company for The Blue Room Theatre. For her performance in Hecate (2020) she was awarded Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress at the PAWA awards.

Elham is an award-winning Iranian-Australian researcher, director, and video artist. Her arena of work centres itself within communal and collaborative social practice. Her research navigates inherited stories and postmemory felt by displaced communities through the poetics of the moving image. She invites viewers to become the 'witness' rather than the 'passive bystander', examining empathy in film poems, and immersive multimedia experiences facilitating a critical discussion surrounding empathy, custodianship, compassion, and social change.

She has previously collaborated with Spaced, Next Wave, Victoria Park Community Centre, PICA, Community Arts Network, Immerse Australia, and Co3 Dance Contemporary. Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally, receiving numerous prestigious art awards for her video installations Her artistic values prioritize agency, empathy and legacy advocating for community arts programs, as co-founder of the Second Generation Collective, which seeks to bridge intergenerational gaps, navigating trauma and communal care.

Rachel (she/her) is currently studying her honours year as part of the Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) at WAAPA. She is one of the founding members of the Sapatos Angels, a Filipino-Australian collective of theatre makers.

During her time at WAAPA, Rachel has devised/directed the TILT programmed IMELDA (*winner of the PICA Contemporary Performance Award) and co-directed Representasian, as well as assistant directed the productions The Arsonists (dir. Melissa Cantwell) and The Day the Sky Fell Down (dir. Renee Newman). As a performer/devisor she worked on the site specific Folds at Boola Bardip (dir. Frances Barbe). She was in the 2022/2024 Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights programs as a performer in She's Terribly Greedy (dir. Eliza Smith) and as co-director/performer of IMELDA.

Rachel is also an acting graduate of the Acting Performance Studio, is a 2019 Australian Shakespeare Company Graduate Player and last year travelled to Singapore to study NOH Theatre at the Intercultural Theatre Institute.

Isha Sharvani is an Indian-born Australian contemporary dancer, who has been performing professionally since the age of 13. Isha’s work is strongly rooted in Indian traditional dance & spiritual disciplines, which she has adapted into contemporary dance, circus & visceral ways of storytelling, bringing to light a unique and completely original cross-cultural art form.

As the principal dancer of The Daksha Sheth Dance Company for over two decades, Isha has performed in thirty countries engaging in over 3000 live shows to date for over 2 million live audience members. Isha is a leading lady in Bollywood and south Indian films, acting in 13 feature films, including Bollywood hit movies like “Luck by Chance” and "Kisna" alongside actors like the late Irfan Khan, Kajol, Farhan Akhtar and Hritik Roshan. 

Isha is also an independent choreographer and producer having recently presented a new intercultural hybrid dance theatre show Kin, that premiered in regional WA at the Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton.

Ghirija is a multidisciplinary artist, with a Tamil heritage, deeply rooted in Indian classical dance, filmmaking, and dance theatre. Her work reflects an exploration of identity, culture, and the human experience. Through Shastram, an initiative she founded, Ghirija has bought forth stories that celebrate the spiritual and cultural richness of Indian classical arts, blending traditional and contemporary forms to create immersive experiences.

As a filmmaker and dance theatre producer, she uses her art to express complex emotions, tell impactful stories, and foster understanding. Storytelling, for Ghirija, is a powerful tool to bridge divides and humanise experiences, particularly those of marginalised communities. Having come from a background marked by genocide, she is committed to sharing narratives that highlight resilience and strength, encouraging empathy and unity. Her work celebrates the diversity and evolving identity of migrants, particularly within Australia's multicultural landscape, and aims to inspire, heal, and bring people together.

Based south of the Derbarl Yerrigan in Beeliar land, Xin Ong is an emerging producer and artist whose work spans stage, film, gallery space and site-specific installation. As a producer, Xin works in a space of deep listening, and is interested in audience-building for artists. 

Born in Singapore, Xin moved to Australia to pursue medicine, but realised that many health conditions faced by developed countries were rooted in a lack of connection - to our own bodies, to purpose, to each other, and to our wider ecosystem. Xin felt this could be more readily addressed within the arts and pivoted to pursue this full-time. She completed her Bachelor of Performing Arts (Honours) 1st class at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2023, researching Leadership in Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Holding Space for Psychological Safety and Peak Performance, which linked business and behavioural psychology to performance-making practice. 

Xin has a strong interest in arts in health and community engagement. She believes in the power of dance as a nexus between human physicality, social connection and the power of the arts as a form of catharsis, creativity and sense of purpose. She hopes to be part of a movement to increase the demand for the arts amongst the general public in order to forge more sustainable career pathways for artists.