Chloe McGrath - Producer
Chloë is graduating WAAPA with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 2016. She has previously completed a bachelor of Theatre and Modern Social History at Murdoch University in 2013, having developed a taste for writing and directing in addition to performing. She designed sound for the WAAPA production of Tender Napalm that toured as part of the 8th Asia Pacific Bureau Theatre Schools Festival & Directors Conference in Singapore in 2015. Recently Chloe performed in and dramaturged for PARADISE in Tilt at The Blue Room Theatre, and was sound designer for the creative development of Unicornia with Your Mouth Collective. Chloe is an active member of the Perth music scene, having under her belt two albums, an EP and a single, and has toured interstate with various groups since 2011. Chloe is always up for a coffee, a chat, and boogie, and is excited for her emerging years as an artist!
Laura Cameron - Founding Member - Performer
Laura has been a part of 10 Redfoot Youth Theatre productions, after touring self devised work The Batavia through Britain, a range of modern Shakespeare productions and contemporary Australian works she then went on to study Performance Making at WAAPA, acquiring a new set of skills in physical and experimental theatre. Throughout all of this she has endeavored to carve a pathway for herself in the outdoor sports and team facilitation industry, working alongside Team Works Development Australia and Scarborough Surf School with children and adults alike.
Reilly O’Byrne-Inglis - Founding Member - Performer
Reilly O’Byrne-Inglis graduated student of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’ Performance Making course in 2016. In 2013 sh trained at The Actor's Centre before being cast as Eda in the New Realms Films full length feature One Less God (release pending). Whilst studying at WAAPA, Reilly has performed with The Cutting Room Floor in their ‘Home Open’ (2015) and ‘Talk Dirty To Me’ (Fringe 2016). Zampatti wrote of her “O’Byrne-Inglis gives a particularly strong performance, coquettish and carnal, yet vulnerable and a little afraid.” (Zampatti. D. Cutting expose of digital dirty talk. 2016)
Meet the piffies....
Amy Murray - Founding Member - Performer
Amy is a graduating student of WAAPA’s Performance Making course and in 2014 she graduated with a BA in Theatre and Drama from Murdoch University. Amy is passionate about socially-driven arts practices, and worked alongside artists with disabilities in a week-long workshop as a PIAF Connect Artist in 2016 with UK dancer Claire Cunningham. In 2013 she played Queen Hermione in a touring production of The Winter’s Tale in Malaysia, and in 2012 she played Eleanor in Nathaniel Moncrieff’s ‘Sleepyhead’ at The Blue Room. She has featured in short films for Central, Murdoch University and ECU as well as local music videos.
Gala Shevstov - Founding Member - Performer
Gala has a strong background as a physical performer. Currently in her final year of WAAPA’s new Performance Making Bachelor, she previously trained with Annie Stainer at Total Theatre. She spent 15 years studying ballet (Vaganova method) under Terri Charlesworth OAM, including training and performance experience in Contemporary, Spanish and Character dance. Gala works as a choreographer and dancer for Noongar performer Phill Walley-Stack, using her classical technique and sensibilities to create dance performances spanning two cultures. They appear regularly around Perth, including the Wardarnji festival 2015, and have performed under the stars at Uluru, at the Chumash Indian Museum in Los Angeles, and the 2014 World Folkfest in Springville, Utah.
Frieda Lee - Founding Member - Script Advisor
Frieda is a former policy worker with a background in the legal assistance sector and HIV advocacy. Overseas she has worked for UN Women and the Coalition of Asia Pacific Regional Networks on HIV/AIDS. In Australia, at the National Association of Community Legal Centres and the Australian Human Rights Commission. Before studying performing arts at WAAPA, she directed productions at the TAP Gallery, Seymour Centre and New Theatre in Sydney.