Yve Blake (She/Her) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and composer. She is best known for creating the musical FANGIRLS for which she wrote the book, music and lyrics. FANGIRLS premiered in 2019 at Queensland Theatre and Belvoir to five star reviews and standing-room-only crowds, before winning the 2019 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Mainstage Musical, the Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, and the 2020 AWGIE award for Music Theatre. In 2021, FANGIRLS returned by demand for a second Australian tour, and released a cast album via Ghostlight Records.

Sonya Suares is a multidisciplinary performer, dramaturg, director, producer and arts activist who made her screen debut in Ocean Girl in the 90s. Feature films include Wil, Knowing, My Year Without Sex and The Last Ride; television highlights are Rush, Very Small Business, East West 101, Lowdown, It’s A Date, Legally Brown, Romper Stomper, Next Generation and Five Bedrooms.

In 2021, in amongst several collaborations and developments, she is working with composer/ lyricist Vidya Makan on The Lucky Country; AD-ing with Sarah Goodes on MTC’s Sunday; and co-directing Into the Woods with Dean Drieberg for Watch This. She has also written, produced and performed in the fantasy screen adventure, The Quest with an extraordinary team that includes her 11-year old son, Daniel.

Eddie Perfect is an Australian composer, lyricist, playwright, musician and performer. He was recently nominated for a Tony for Best Original Score for his work in Beetlejuice. His works for the stage include Shane Warne The Musical (Token Events), for which he won a Helpmann, a Green Room and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award;Vivid White and The Beast (Melbourne Theatre Company); Strictly Ballroom (Global Creatures);Songs From the Middle (with the Brodsky Quartet); and King Kong on Broadway (Global Creatures). Eddie’s acting credits include TV’s Offspring, South Pacific (Opera Australia/Lincoln Centre Theater), Keating! (Belvoir) and as a regular presenter on Playschool.

Creator & Change Agent, Samuel Gaskin has always been one to stand out in a crowd. Not only is he an accomplished Artist and Actor, he also runs his own company Beat Entertainment, a BIPOC LGBTQI+ led and focussed entertainment company renowned for truly original bespoke concepts of deep heart.

His work RECKŌNING recently took out four Melbourne Fringe Awards including Best Emerging Indigenous Artist – Supported by Wilin Centre (VCA & MCM); Market Ready Award – Supported by Regional Arts Victoria; Emerging Company Incubator Award – Supported by Monash Centre for Theatre and Performance; and Space Cadet Award – Supported by RISING Melbourne.

Casey Bennetto is a songwriter, performer, arranger, composer, dramaturge, DJ and eternal searcher for the definition of “dramaturge”. He’s best known for having written the musical “KEATING!”, but amongst other projects he’s scored television programs “Get Krack!n”and “Lowdown”, directed live comedy and cabaret shows, hosted national awards ceremonies, taught university music theatre courses and collaborated on award-winning opera “Lorelei”, so geez, Mum, get off his case, will you? His original songs have been performed by artists from Paul Kelly to Ali McGregor. He likes Bananagrams.

Vidya Makan is a critically acclaimed actor, singer and composer/lyricist, perhaps most well known for originating the role of Catherine Parr in the Australian tour of SIX. As a composer/lyricist, Vidya is currently working on her concept musical The Lucky Country in collaboration with Sonya Suares. In 2020, Vidya directed, produced and wrote the Green Room Award Nominated original song I NEED YOU TO SEE ME; a call to the entertainment industry for visibility and inclusion. Vidya is a proud graduate of Griffith University’s Queensland Conservatorium’s Bachelor of Musical Theatre and endeavours to champion minority voices in all of her work. She is proudly represented by Ian White Management.