Adam Mitchell – Artistic Director (2014- 2018, 2024 to 2025)

Adam Mitchell is an award-winning stage director known for his inventive Theatre, Music Theatre and Opera productions. He was the Associate Director for Black Swan State Theatre Company and has directed twenty productions for the company. Most recently he directed The Snow for Barking Gecko Theatre Company, The Hypotheticals for The Last Great Hunt and Oil at Black Swan. He regularly directs Theatre, Opera and Music Theatre for The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), has worked with The National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), West Australian Opera, Victoria College of the Arts, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Playwriting Australia, Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies, Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Freeze Frame Opera, The Australian Theatre for Young People and is a member of the Lincoln Centre Theater Directors Lab (New York). He is a 40 Under 40 Award winner and has received Equity Guild Awards, Blue Room Theatre Awards, PAWA Awards and the Martin Sims and The West Australian Arts Editor Award.

April Vardy –  Choreographer (2021 to 2024) Rehearsal Director 2025

April Vardy is a graduate of LINK Dance Company, graduating in 2016. Since then she has choreographed and performed as part of Fringe Festival Perth, including being a co-creator of the site-specific work ‘In Cahoots’, which was awarded WA overall winner of the Dance & Physical Theatre 2020. She performed in the three iterations of Brooke Leeder & Dancers show, ‘Structural Dependency’, which was part of Perth Festival at the State Theatre Centre of WA in 2021. April has taught at a number of dance and high schools all over Perth including. She currently is the Regional Manager at West Australian Ballet, and has been a Teaching Artist for the Company since 2020.  

Kynan Hughes  – Choreographer (2018 to 2020 & 2025)

Kynan Hughes graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts in Dance in 2000. He has worked with a range of companies around Australia including: Leigh Warren and Dancers, Dance North & Sydney Dance Company under Rafael Bonachela. During this time, he performed & toured a range of new & established works, both in Australia and overseas. Kynan has also choreographed a number of works & taught at various companies and institutions around Australia. Since returning to Perth in 2012, Kynan has attained his Bachelor of Arts and performed in a wide range of productions for companies, independently and in the Perth Festival and Fringe. He was nominated as ‘Best Male Performer’ in the 2013 West Australian Dance Awards for Sue Peacock’s REFLECT. Hughes performed in two new works for the 2014 Fringe festival: RITES – dying to dance by Sally Richardson & THE MAN – a collaboration with Chrissie Parrott. THE MAN won the 2014 Fringe award for Performance & was nominated in the categories’ of best Choreography and Performance by a male dancer at the 2014 WA dance awards. Kynan returned to Adelaide in 2014 to work with Leigh Warren and Dancers & the State Opera South Australia for the world premiere of the Phillip Glass Trilogy in Einstein on the Beach. Major independent projects include; creating the exam materials for 2017/19 for the Education Department of WA, a 30 minute work for Beijing Normal University, co-curating In Situ: a program of site specific work for local independent artists with Emma Fishwick and his full-length works Valentine and Love/Less (nominated for 4 PAWA awards). He is currently a lecturer at WAAPA and is a member of the board of STRUT Dance.

Kimberley Parkin  – Assistant Event Manager (2025)

Kimberley is a Boorloo/Perth based choreographer, dance teacher, producer and the driving force behind the project-based company Parkin Projects. As a self-producing choreographer, Kimberley has honed her choreographic voice through collaborations with STRUT Dance, FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL, and Co3 Contemporary Dance. In 2021, she launched Parkin Projects, establishing her leadership with the acclaimed production ‘Cry Baby’ at The Rechabite. The show garnered four Performing Arts WA nominations and was commissioned in Sydney Dance Company’s INDance program in 2023. ‘Killjoy’, her subsequent creation, was developed and presented through STRUT’s SEED Residencies, GROUNDWORKS, and Co3’s IN.HOUSE season between 2022 to 2023.  Kimberley co-created ‘Resurgence’, a mass community dance-rock fusion event, for Junction Arts Festival with Joseph O’Farrell in 2023. She has performed professionally through FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL Perth, Monkey Brain Theatre, STRUT Dance, and The Stephanie Lake Company. Recently she performed a site-specific solo choreographed and devised by Georgia Van Gil’s and produced by STRUT Dance and Co3 Contemporary Dance at WA Museum Boola Bardip. This year she was the WAAPA Allen’s Mentorship recipient and worked alongside Patricia Wood and Michael Whaites as an assistant choreographer for LINK Dance’s site specific work ‘The History Project’ Kimberley also is a teaching artist at the Western Australian Ballet, Co3 Contemporary Dance, STRUT Dance and Hot House Company.

Audrey Poor – Assistant Event Manager (2026)

Audrey has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, having majored in both Theatre Studies and Film & Screen Production. Her Theatre aptitudes include playwriting, acting and directing. In 2020, her play ‘The Friendliest Metropolis’ was awarded first-place at the South-West Shorts writing for performance competition. This play was performed at the Heart in Margaret River, and then published in the National Library. Her play ‘Golf Day’ won second place at the Shorelines Writing for Performance Competition in Bunbury in 2022. Her plays ‘Customs’ and ‘Remembering Cliff’ were performed at the 2021 and 2022 Short & Sweet Festivals in Perth. More recently, her one-act play ‘Playing for Sheep Stations’ was performed as part of the Busselton Fringe Festival in 2025. Audrey has also performed as an actor on stage and in film, having performed in community theatre for the Old Mill Theatre, the Darlington Theatre Players, Melville Theatre, Arena Theatre Productions and the Joondalup Encore Theatre Society. She has also performed on stage professionally at the Perth Fringe Festival (‘The Almost Completely Terrible Tale of Felicity Footin’ – 2022). Her film portfolio includes both performing and directing in short-films, and in television. She has also worked in production design roles in both short and feature films around WA, including the award-winning short ‘Nothing Special’ (2022), and ‘The Skeleton Tree’ (2025), and ‘It Only Takes a Night’ (2022). Audrey is currently the President of the Joondalup Encore Theatre Society, aiming to build-up a stronger performing arts community in the northern corridor.

Amy Wiseman engages with dance as an artist, teacher, and producer. A graduate of WAAPA’s LINK Dance Company, Amy is a founding member of Boorloo/Perth-based collective Unkempt Dance, and has choreographed, produced and performed award-winning works with Unkempt both locally and nationally. The collective was commissioned to make and present work for Co3’s WA Dance Makers program (2018), and also initiated the In Situ platform (now Situ8) – a site-specific development and performance opportunity for independent choreographers through STRUT Dance. Amy has been an independent teacher of dance in metropolitan secondary and dance schools for over a decade. She holds the Ausdance Skill Set for Teaching Dance (2014), a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (2019) and regularly teaches, coaches and examines for ATAR dance. Amy is passionate about dance pedagogy and enjoys working with teachers in various capacities to support and enhance learning. Amy is currently Executive Director of Ausdance WA, and worked as the organisation’s Projects Manager from 2014-2018,  then as Communications and Program Manager for STRUT from 2020-2023. Since becoming a mother in 2019, Amy has enjoyed time in the playgrounds of beautiful Boorloo/Perth and finding a balance between family and work life.

Emily McLean trained at WAAPA and is a founding member of Red Ryder Theatre Company. She has directed for Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, Deckchair, Red Ryder, WAAPA, Curtin University, Maiden Voyage Theatre Company, Downstairs at the Maj and others. In 2014, she directed the world premiere of Dust by Suzie Miller for Black Swan, which won the WA Premier’s Award for best script. Red Ryder’s production of Grounded by George Brant, directed by Emily, was a sell out and won both the Members’ Choice and Best Production at the 2016 Blue Room Awards and the PAWA Award for Best Independent Production for 2016. In 2017, she directed Second Year Musical Theatre Students at WAAPA and Toast by Liz Newell, a new West Australian work at The Blue Room. Toast won the Best Production at the 2017 Blue Room Awards. In 2018, she directed A Streetcar Named Desire with the third year acting students at WAAPA, and Blackrock with Curtin Theatre Arts students. In the last eight years she has directed ten new Australian works. Emily won the Equity Award for directing in 2006 for Dealer’s Choice and in 2007 for The Mozart Faction.

Cameron Lansdown-Goodman  – Event Manager (2022)

Cameron Lansdown-Goodman is a graduate of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) in 2014 and a Bachelor of Arts (Arts Management) in 2018. Throughout his career Cameron has worked in a variety of roles including a performer, teacher, maker and producer of dance and performance. Cameron works exclusively in Perth for Perth Based artists, where he has gone on to tour shows made in Western Australia to Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and the United States of America. Cameron was awarded the 2016 WA award for Dance and Physical Theatre for his self-produced and choreographed production titled Brainchild. The production went on to tour to Sydney Fringe Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. Cameron has done extensive work with organisations around Perth including Ochre Contemporary Dance Company, Ausdance WA and Performing Arts Connections Australia. He has worked on many events including International Dance Day and the 2018 Making Space Conference and Performing Arts Exchange.