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Daisy continues her 20+ years in the Adelaide arts scene as a theatre maker, directing and devising over 30 new Australian works. Daisy co-created theatre company Control Party (formally known as The Misery Children) who dare to be anything but ordinary. In 2021 Control Party produced their most ambitious work yet, The World Is Looking For You, with writer Finegan Kruckemeyer and a team of leading SA artists, presented by Brink Productions, Adelaide Festival Centre and County Arts SA. Home reunites Daisy with Patch Theatre, having worked as a creative on their highly successful 2020 Adelaide Festival production The Lighthouse – an immersive creation which won the 2020 Ruby Award for Best work or event within a festival. As a director Daisy has discovered her voice as a female maker. Major directing works include: 19 weeks (writer Emily Steel) sold-out seasons in Adelaide/Melbourne/Perth Fringes 2017/18, Rabbits (writer Emily Steel) as part of STCSA 2018 Umbrella Program, and Ruby Bruise (writer Finegan Kruckemeyer) presented by Vitalstatistix and Mützenball which toured Nationally. Daisy's work has featured in Australia’s leading festivals, and she is the proud winner of the Best Theatre Award at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe and winner of a Green Room award for her devised production Mützenball in 2009.

Geoff Cobham is the Artistic Director of Patch Theatre and one of Australia’s leading culture professionals, with over 40 years’ experience collaborating in all forms of theatre.

His artistic reputation both nationally and internationally comes from an outstanding multi-award-winning career working with several of Australia’s foremost arts organisations and events. He spent ten years as Associate Director of dance theatre Force Majeure, five years as resident designer at State Theatre Company South Australia and has worked in senior management roles at Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and WOMAD.

Geoff founded Bluebottle in 1998, an award-winning lighting design company which integrates outstanding lighting design into theatres, galleries, installations, architecture, exhibitions and music.

He has a long and notable history with Patch Theatre, having worked on a variety of productions including The Fastest Boy, Emily Loves to Bounce and Me & My Shadow before taking the reins as Artistic Director in 2018. While at Patch, Geoff has created in-theatre works ZOOOM, I Wish…, and Home and installation works The Lighthouse, Sea of Light, and Mirror Mirror.

Michelle 'Maddog' Delaney is a maker of things. Places, spaces, feelings and things – forests in disused buildings, themed bars and bespoke furniture, shattering plaster BMX wheels, Ediacaran based décor, rocket stands and giant cocoons, and more. She has worked as a designer, production manager, builder, scenic artist, stage manager, sourcer and sorcerer for major companies, festivals and independent artists. She likes nothing better than working in great teams to produce beautiful experiences. She is currently Creative Associate at Patch Theatre and, with Geoff Cobham, has co-designed all of Patch’s shows since 2019. Maddog’s design credits include Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2018–2021, Dark Mofo 2018 & 2019, Adelaide Festival 2013–2016, Darwin Festival 2010– 2015, Adelaide Fringe 2007–2009, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012, Red Sky Morning – State Theatre Company of South Australia (2016), and co-design with Meg Wilson on Life is Short and Long – Emma Beech and Vitalstatistix (2016).

Michelle has enjoyed a career that has spanned over 30 years in the arts. Michelle joined Meryl Tankard in Canberra and Adelaide as part of Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre for seven and half years, followed by projects in Europe as Tankard’s assistant. Michelle was also a founding member of Splintergroup and worked at Dancenorth for five years in various capacities.Michelle returned to performing in 2011 as a guest artist for Alain Plattel Out of Context for Pina by Les Ballet C de la B followed by Take Up Thy Bed and Walk by Gaelle Mellis in 2012. She performed in London at the Unlimited Festival, at the Melbourne Malthouse Theatre and the Adelaide Festival Centre in Torque Show’s Intimacy. The production won the 2015 Australian Dance Award for Independent Dance and Michelle was awarded the Adelaide Critics Circle Award for her performance. Michelle also worked with Meryl Tankard and Hedone Productions on the multi award winning film, Michelle’s Story directed by Meryl Tankard which premiered at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and won the People’s Choice Award for Best Short Film and the 2016 Australian Dance Award for Best Film. The film was screened on ABC TV in March 2016.Michelle was appointed Artistic Director of Restless Dance Theatre in 2013 and has created numerous works for the company including Intimate Space, Seeing Through Darkness and Guttered. The major works for the company have been presented in festivals both nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Michelle celebrates diversity in all elements of her work.In 2015 Michelle was inducted into the South Australian Woman’s Honour Roll.Michelle was the recipient of the 2020 Australia Council for the Arts Dance Award.

Zoë is a dancer, puppeteer and performer born on Gadigal land (Sydney), NSW Australia and is currently living and working on Kaurna land (Adelaide), SA. Zoë studied at the New Zealand School of Dance and graduated in 2011 with a Diploma in Dance Performance. She is a NZSD Distinguished Alumni for 2021.In 2012 Zoë moved to Adelaide after been offered a position at Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) and worked full-time and as a guest dancer until 2020 under the directorship of Garry Stewart.Since at working in SA, she has also created and performed works by Norwegian choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen and local SA choreographers Daniel Jaber and Lina Limosani.Zoë has most recently been creating and performing in children’s theatre and puppetry shows, working with SA companies Patch Theatre Company (I Wish…), Windmill Theatre Co (Grug and Bluey’s Big Play) and Windmill Pictures (Beep and Mort).

Bhodi attended his first Links workshop at Restless at the age of 12 before quickly moving into the Central workshop a year later. His first performance with Restless was Intimate Space at Adelaide Festival in 2017, followed by Creating the Spectacle at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2018. In 2021 Bhodi joined the company for Ecoute Pour Voir  – Listen to See, then in 2022 for Exposed which premiered at the Festival Centre. As well as being part of Restless’ Emerging Artist Program, Bhodi joined the team as Office Assistant in 2018 and now volunteers every second Friday. Ever since day one, he has very much appreciated this company and all who associate with it.

Temeka Lawlor is a highly skilled theatre maker and performer based in Adelaide. Since acquiring her Advanced Diploma of Acting from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2017, Temeka has created and performed in award-winning theatre productions, touring regionally and nationally.

Temeka co-created and starred in Patch Theatre’s ZOOOM and co-created Home – she has toured with the company internationally and nationally, performing both ZOOOM and Me & My Shadow.

 In 2018, she performed in the debut of Waxing Lyrical’s Hannah and toured regional Australia with Splash Theatre’s The Book Show. Temeka was part of the original making ensemble for The PaperBoats award-winning show Especially on Birthdays, directed by Dave Brown, and has performed the piece to regional communities in 2020 and 2021 and was awarded Best Children’s Show in the Adelaide Fringe in 2021.

In 2022, Temeka was appointed Associate Artistic Director of The PaperBoats and began the development of her own new show titled Precious Things, which will hold its debut season in 2023.

To compliment her interests in performing and physical theatre, Temeka also practices and teaches yoga.

Charlie has been dancing with Restless Dance Theatre since 2017, and a member of the company since 2020. He has performed in Creating the Spectacle for the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival, Guttered for the 2021 Adelaide Festival, Ecoute Pour Voir – Listen to See for Adelaide’s DreamBIG Festival and WOMADelaide, Seeing Through Darkness and Exposed.

Charlie is a champion swimmer and has competed in the World Games for swimming in Abu Dhabi.

Born in Brisbane, Larissa began training at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence, and graduated from the VCA winning the award for ‘Most Outstanding Talent’.

Larissa joined Australian Dance Theatre in 2000 and toured extensively nationally and internationally with the company for 11yrs.

In 2008, Larissa was named as the ADT Associate Choreographer. Following winning the 2003 Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer, Larissa won multiple awards in 2004, at the Helpmann Awards and the Australian Dance Awards. Her work, Zero-sum, made its world premiere at WOMADelaide 2009. She was a guest choreographer on two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. Her work Slack was part of Sydney Opera House’s New Breed season, which Link Dance Company toured internationally. She created Transducer as part of Tasdance’s ‘Voltage’ season, with Co:3 performing it at the companies launch season 2015. Fanatic was choreographed on Sydney Dance Company for Spring Dance and De Novo.

Movement direction includes Slingsby Theatre Company’s Wolf, State Theatre Company of SA’s Romeo & Juliet and Mneumonic, Brink Theatre Company’s Harbinger, Mass presented by Adelaide Festival (2012) & State Opera of South Australia. 

She was Assistant Choreographer on the film The Boy Castaways (2013 Adelaide Film Festival).

Her work Skeleton premiered in 2013 at the Adelaide Festival, Dance Massive & Dublin Dance Festival. She Co-Choreographed Habitus with Garry Stewart for ADT in 2016 & independently created Mortal Condition which also premiered the same year.

From 2014 to 2017 she was Adelaide Fringe Festival Parade choreographer and curator of DanceXtend for Country Arts SA in 2015 and 16.

Since 2003 Jason Sweeney has collaborated with some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies and organisations as well as directing and creating a number of his own interactive works for the internet and participatory community engagement projects for galleries and theatre spaces. As a composer of electronic music, he has also been releasing music internationally with Panoptique Electrical and solo project Sweeney. Over the last few years Jason has completed a trilogy of research sound-based works focused on quietness and urban ecologies, including major projects Stereopublic: Crowdsourcing the Quiet which won a TED City2.0 Prize and the research odyssey, Quiet Ecology. In 2021 he released the major double album retrospective Decades (2001-2021).

Sascha Budimski is an Adelaide based sound artist whose style of music generally involves mashing electronic beats, glitched acoustic instruments and textured ambiences and atmospheres. He developed his interest in sound art and electronic music whilst studying dance at the Adelaide College of the Arts and is heavily drawn to designing and creating sound for theatre, dance and art installations. Sascha is also a qualified sound engineer, completing a Diploma of Music Industry at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Adelaide where he developed a love for recording, mixing and collaborating with bands and musicians. Works featuring his sound design have received various awards and nominations, including several Australian Dance Awards, Ruby Awards, South Australian Small Screen Awards and Performing Arts WA Awards. In recent years, Sascha’s work has received international attention with works featuring his sound being presented in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. To hear examples of his work, please visit www.svb-audio.com.

Alex is an Adelaide-based technician, working across lighting, sound, and av; specialising in technical/system design. Alex started tech at high school to try and skip class, but it ended up becoming something he fell in love with and eventually turned into a career. Since then, he has worked across theatre, film, live music and events for companies including Patch Theatre, Windmill Theatre Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Restless Dance Theatre, Gravity & Other Myths, Marvel Studios and more. He first worked with Patch during a high school work experience placement. He came in for a week of creative development on The Moon’s a Balloon and helped to build set and lighting elements of the show. After getting into the industry as an adult he found his way back to Patch and has become the System Designer, Touring Technician and Operator on most of Patch’s shows/productions.

Renate Henschke is a costume and set designer working in film, television and theatre. Currently based in Adelaide, South Australia, Renate spent 12 years working in Dublin, Ireland in costume departments for many international film and television series. Recent Australian work includes costume design for the ABC/Aquarius Films 10 part series Born To Spy and Sissy a stylish horror film premiering at SXSW 2022 as well as costume and puppet maker for the Beep and Mort television series for the ABC & Windmill Pictures. An ongoing collaboration with film collective Closer Productions has lead to costume designing for the acclaimed SBS 4 part drama The Hunting (Asher Keddie, Richard Roxborough) and the Irish Australian co production Animals (Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat), and the ABC/Screen Australia television series Fucking Adelaide (Pamela Rabe, Kate Box) and the Berlin Film Festival Crystal Bear Award winning short film A Field Guide to Being a 12 Year Old Girl (Tilly Cobham-Hervey). Renate has created work with many theatre makers such as State Theatre Company of South Australia (That Eye the Sky, The Club), Gravity and Other Myths (Pulse), Patch Theatre (I Wish...), Vitalstatistix (The Photo Box, Cher), Windmill Theatre Company, (Honey I’m Home, Girl Asleep), Restless (Exposed) Brink Productions (Memorial) for Adelaide Festival, Is This Yours? (The Club, Angelique), The Border Project (I Animal), Sandpit, Google Creative Lab (Ghost Toast and Things left unsaid) and The Seam (Tiny Things).

James Dodd exhibits regularly across Australia in publicly funded institutions, commercial galleries and artist-run spaces.  He works with a range of approaches including particular interests in painting, machines as art, graffiti, adventure and public space. He maintains a curiosity in sheds, backyards suburbia and the creative activities and transgressions that occur in these spaces.

A recent and ongoing project is The Painting Mill; a contraption that is cobbled together from various household, shed-found and DIY parts such as cordless drills, rollerblades and bicycles, which are operated via remote control. The Painting Mill becomes somewhat performative in its presentation whilst also pursuing painted outcomes that can be engaging in their own right.

Dodd is active as an educator at Adelaide Central School of Art and regularly delivers youth and community based arts programs across a range of outcomes. He is often finding ways to tap into his kinetic art interests to develop educational projects that lean into both visual art and STEM streams.

Elias Ppiros is a Character Artist, Prop and Puppet Maker based in Adelaide, South Australia. Growing up in a small quiet country town, he found himself making and creating at a young age and building a passion for the arts pushing him to explore different medias and techniques, ranging from metalwork and carpentry to fabrics, foams and sculpting. Elias now specialises in Puppet Making.

Elias has worked with various Australian theatre and TV companies such as the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Windmill Theatre Company, Windmill Pictures, Barking Gecko Theatre, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, State Opera of South Australia, Patch Theatre, Restless Dance Theatre and many others. Elias has rapidly grown his reputation as one of Australia’s go-to Prop and Puppet Makers. 

Wendy has done set and costume design for a variety of performing arts companies and has done everything else from site co-ordination to prop maker and scenic artist. Set and Costume Designer Credits include: Worldhood [Australian Dance Theatre], One [Tutti], Skip Miller [Brink Productions], The Little Green Tractor [Patch Theatre], Ruby Bruise [The Misery Children & Vitalstatistix], Harbinger [Brink Productions], Man Covets Bird [Slingsby], Superheroes [Stone/Castro Productions], The Hypochondriac [Brink Productions], Freaky [Cirkidz & Circus Monoxide], After The End [Adelaide Fringe 09], Beetle Graduation [Brink Productions), The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy [Slingsby 2007], and Three Men in a Tub [Fringe 2009]. Other roles have included Designer and builder of Travelling Street Theatre, Assistant Designer for the Persian Garden, [Adelaide Festival of Arts Nightclub 2008 & 2006]. Site Coordinator [WOMADelaide 07], Prop Maker & Scenic Artist [Moonlantern Parade 2007–2009, Fringe Parade 2009, Windmill Performing Arts, State Theatre Company of SA, Australian Dance Theatre and Performing Lines Wicked The Musical].

Ruby is in her final year at NIDA studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Design for Performance. After completing a Cert III in Live Production in her final year in high school, she has worked on a number of projects both within and outside NIDA while studying. Adelaide highlights include Almost, Maine with the Flinders University Performing Arts Society (directed by Alana Lymn), and Home Thoughts with Famous Last words (directed by James Watson), both showing at the Bakehouse Theatre. Most recently Ruby was costume designer for the musical Falsettos (directed by David Berthold) as part of NIDA's June production season.

Katya has a professional career in the Arts spanning eighteen years. Training intensively in Dance and then at VCA Drama School, she spent a decade working as a Performer and Theatre Maker across Drama, Puppetry and Visual Theatre before transitioning into Production, Festivals and Events.

Diverse experiences include touring remote and metropolitan Australia and internationally; varied roles in International Arts Festivals; creating performance with young Indigenous children for the Karijini Festival, Tour Managing, facilitating and performing theatre made for audiences with profound and multiple Disabilities; writing a publication to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Theatre; Coordinating outdoor Concerts for audiences of 20,000, Operations Management for multi-day multi-venue Festivals, and a spectrum of Stage Management work.

Katya has lived in Adelaide since late 2017 and has been lucky to work locally with the Adelaide Festival; Space Events; Gluttony; Groove Events; Tasting Australia; Adelaide Cabaret, DreamBIG and OzAsia Festivals; Tutti Ensemble, the ASO and Restless Dance Theatre.

With a long history of performing in theatre for Children and recently becoming Mummy to an amazing small boy, working with Patch Theatre is a beautiful confluence of past experience and new learnings.