Jennifer was most recently seen in the outrageous Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch presented by Little Ones Theatre. She also toured nationally in Musica Viva’s Chopin’s Piano mid-2023 playing multiple roles in a stunning fusion of chamber music and theatrical performances. Other recent credits include the roles of Priam and Chryses in the Brisbane Festival hit season of HOLDING ACHILLES, and as Katia in the Malthouse/Belvoir co-production of LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI in Melbourne and Sydney. Earlier stage credits include Victoria Opera’s HAPPY END and Malthouse’s BECAUSE THE NIGHT in which she performed the role of Queen Gertrude. Other stage highlights include the Malthouse/STC co-productions of THE HISTRIONIC and WOMEN OF TROY, ARBUS & WEST (MTC), and MAMMA MIA. Awards include the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Award for the Baroness in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and a Green Room Award for MERCILESS GODS (Little Ones Theatre/Griffin Theatre). Screen credits include Mandy the Mullet in WENTWORTH, Enid Holdstock in MS FISHER’S MODERN MURDER MYSTERIES and Margot Molloy in the feature film, THE SURROGATE. Her most recent film appearance, as Dorothy in DEAD LESBIANS, played at MQFF (2023) and will play in this year’s Queer Screen’s 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival. A multiple award-winning audio narrator, Jennifer is best known for the internationally acclaimed ONCE MY MOTHER.

Dr Jane Montgomery Griffiths is a distinguished scholar and academic, as well as an outstanding reputation in the professional performing arts as an award-winning actor and playwright. As an academic, she is a specialist in Greek tragedy and performance theory and has taught at Bretton Hall Drama School, York Ripon St Johns University, La Trobe University and for many years, Monash University, where she was Director of the Centre for Theatre and Performance and Professor of Theatre Practice. As an actor, she has worked with major companies throughout the UK, and in Australia, with (among others) MTC, Malthouse, Belvoir, Red Stitch and Bell Shakespeare, with awards/nominations from the Manchester Evening News, White Rose, Greenroom and Helpmann Awards. Her plays and libretti have been performed by Malthouse, ABC Radio National, Victorian Opera, Opera Nova, published by Currency Press and nominated for Premiers' Literary Awards and Greenroom Awards for best new writing. She is currently Head of School (Performing Arts) at Collarts.

Virginia Proud is a director and writer, with fifteen years of theatre practice and a Master of Theatre from the Victorian College of the Arts. Between 2010-2019 she worked extensively in Central Europe, where she was a co-founder of the international collaboration, Budapest English Company (BET) and its Artistic Director from 2012-2016. For BET, she directed and produced contemporary plays and new works and toured productions from across Europe and the United States. Her plays Pretext, Master of His Domain, and The Afflicted Trilogy, have been produced in Australia and Europe, and she has worked on and off screen for US and Hungarian film and television. Now based in Melbourne, local directing credits include The Almighty Sometimes (Martyn Myer Arena) and When Women Speak of War (National Theatre Melbourne), City Park Plays (MC Showroom) and as assistant director Yentl dir. Gary Abrahams (Malthouse Theatre/Arts Centre Melbourne).

Giovanna Yate Gonzalez is a Colombian professional dancer who has expanded her skill set in Australia through the production bachelor at VCA in Lighting Design. Across 2022, she worked as lighting designer for the dance piece “Siren Dance” by Lilian Steiner not only performed at Dance House but also at Sydney Dance Company and Homo Novus Festival, also, theatre performances such as “Fast Food” at Red Stitch.

In 2023, She was able to design different performances such as the dance shows “Queers of Java” with Lengger artist Rianto Manali at Sydney Dance Company and at Melbourne Fringe “STAUNCH ASF” with Amelia O’Leary at the Meat Market and “LUSH” by gemma+molly, which won Best Dance and Physical Theatre. Also, designed theatre performances such as “Shhhh” at Red Stitch directed by Emma Valente. Moreover, Giovanna was one of the five placements of the Besen Artistic Program at Malthouse as Lighting Designer.

This year, she has designed for the Midsumma Festival at Theatre Works, “All the Rest” by Flinn McGrath and the cabaret show “On the Uncertainty Of Signs” by Willing. Furthermore, she is part of the FUTURE CREATIVE program with MTC.

Billy Nichols is an emerging director and stage manager living in Naarm (Melbourne). Billy has a keen dramaturgical eye for showcasing diverse queer stories, forming Cherry Bomb Theatre Co. in 2022. They have worked as a technician and stage manager for several years in London's late night cabaret clubs, including The Box SOHO and Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Billy most recently presented productions for Melbourne Fringe Festival, Midsumma Festival and Melbourne Comedy Fest. MILF & THE MISTRESS is Billy's first contribution to Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Kate Gaul is a theatre and opera director, creative producer, festival director, writer and (occasional) designer based in Sydney, NSW. She is a graduate of NIDA (Directing 1996). Kate undertook a residency with SITI Company (NYC) and was Associate Director at Ensemble Theatre.

Kate has established herself as a distinctive and inventive director, with directing credits including plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and schools in Australia. She is Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co where her passion for text-based drama challenges artists and audiences to have bold imaginative experiences.

Kate has also directed festivals (World Interplay, Playlist, Invisible Circus, Cabaret, and Short Play Festivals), and Sydney Mardi Gras Parade.

​Most recent directing credits include a new play CAMP for a sell-out season at Sydney World Pride 2023 and an acclaimed interpretation of H.M.S Pinafore, which toured extensively and last played Sydney Festival 2021. The End of Winter (2022) by Noëlle Janaczewska, has a national tour in 2023; Kate completed a play, Girl Running, Boy Falling (Shortlisted Stoddard Playwright Award 2023 and Longlisted Monte Miller Award 2024) which is going into production. Kate directs a new production of The Magic Flute for Opera Australia in 2024.

www.kategaul.com