ROSHELLE YEE PUI FONG (she/her) is a Hong Kong born multidisciplinary artist who loves writing as healing and intercultural solidarity, and performance text as a vehicle for digital languages. In 2018, she created the award-winning immersive show nomnomnom, which was adapted in East Iceland, Shanghai and Sydney, and in 2020 she created an online interactive theatre show Thirsty! (Griffin Theatre, Google Creative Lab). In 2021, Roshelle co-created Green Room Award nominated Poona with Keziah Warner (Next Wave), and in 2022, she was an artist in Creative Australia’s Digital Fellowship program, Assistant Director on Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda and a writer for Cybec Scenes, while completing her Masters of Theatre (Writing) at Victorian College of the Arts and sitting on Melbourne Theatre Company’s Artistic Associate panel (2022-24). Roshelle’s play 红铅 The Red Lead (now 秀女 The Elegant Women) won the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize International Award 2022, part of the UK’s largest national playwriting competition. She has since developed it with Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, as a guest playwright at the 50th Banff Playwrights Lab in Canada, and at Melbourne Theatre Company. Roshelle has also been developing new work in Australian Plays Transform’s Mid-Career Playwrights’ group, and is an advisor for Contemporary Asian Australian Performance’s (CAAP) Artist Reference Group.

MATTHEW NGAMURARRI HEFFERNAN is a Pintupi-Luritja creative-technologist, ANU PhD student at the school of Cybernetics, and a writer from central Australia. He is a champion of sharing Indigenous voices through technology, and has worked extensively to share and conserve the knowledge of Indigenous peoples. Through his previous role as lead developer at Indigital, Australia’s first Indigenous tech education company, Matthew helped to make the digital landscape more accessible to and inclusive of Indigenous young people. Matthew also worked on the development of Indigemoji and kaytetemoji, Australia’s first brand of Indigenous emojis designed by young Indigenous children and guided by Elders on Country. Matthew has written for Indigenous X, The Guardian and Red Room Poetry.