HANNIE RAYSON has established a reputation for complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University. Her plays have been extensively performed around Australia and internationally. They include Mary, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness, Life After George, Inheritance, Two Brothers, The Swimming Club, Extinction and Noah’s Daughter. She has been awarded two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award as well as the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. For television she has written Sloth (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers’ Society of Australia’s Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine. Rayson made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. Hannie adapted her memoir Hello, Beautiful! as a one-woman show, which she performed around Australia. In 2021, LA TheatreWorks adapted Extinction as an audio play.

CALEB LEWIS is a multi-award-winning playwright, dramaturg, and interactive designer. Playscripts include Cathedral; The River at the End of the Road; The Honey Bees; Maggie Stone; In a Dark Dark Wood; Rust and Bone; Aleksander and the Robot Maid; Dogfal; Men, Love ,and the Monkeyboy; Death in Bowengabbie, and Clinchfield, which won the inaugural Richard Burton Award for New Plays. Games, installations, and interactive encounters include Exclusion Zone; Across a Crowded Room; Half an Hour Visit; The Underlibrary of Unofficial Histories; and the multi-platform If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It. Twice a former resident artist at Griffin Theatre, Australia’s home of new writing, Caleb was mentored by Nick Enright (Blackrock, Lorenzo’s Oil) and Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). He is the winner of an Inscription Award, the Philip Parsons Award (in absentia), and the inaugural AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild Award) for Digital Narrative. Caleb's work has been commissioned and/or produced by State Theatre Company of South Australia; Bell Shakespeare, Griffin; Black Swan Theatre Company (WA), and numerous small to large companies across the country as well as overseas. Current projects include the interactive encounter triptych, Uncertain Playgrounds, exploring the nexus of stageplay and gameplay. Reviews, playscripts, and production details are available at http://caleb-lewis.com/.

JUSTINE CAMPBELL is a director, writer and actor and is co-artistic director and co-producer of HUMAN ANIMAL EXCHANGE. In 2016, their co-production with Malthouse Theatre of the award winning They Saw a Thylacine toured Australia. Campbell’s work as a writer includes Back From The Dead Red (Melbourne Fringe), The Dust and Us (La Mama) and Untold which was co-written with Sarah Hamilton for MTC as part of Cybec Electric. Campbell has been a participant in MTC’s Women Directors Program as well as Theatre Works’ Directors Lab. A member of the Green Room Awards independent theatre panel, Campbell’s awards include: Stand Out Performer Awards NZ Fringe 2014, Green Room Award Best Female Performer in an Independent Production 2010 and Equity ACT Green Room Award for Professional Performer 2007.

SARAH HAMILTON is a writer, performer and co-artistic director of Human Animal Exchange. Her first play A Donkey and a Parrot toured to Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. With Justine Campbell she has co-written The Dust and Us (La Mama), Untold (MTC Cybec Electric) and They Saw a Thylacine. Thylacine won the Best Performance and Tiki Tour Ready awards at Melbourne Fringe in 2013, and was nominated for Best Theatre at Adelaide Fringe and three Greenroom Awards: Best Writing, Best Female Performers and Best Production. Following a collaboration with Malthouse Theatre in 2015, Thylacine toured nationally through Performing Lines in 2016, and was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production. Hamilton has a Masters in Writing for Performance through the Victorian College of the Arts.