Dance Nation

Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington. Her plays include You Got Older, which received its world premiere with Page 73 and will appear at Steppenwolf in 2018 (Obie Award for Playwriting, Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding
Play, Kilroys List, and Susan Smith Blackburn finalist); I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr, NYTimes & Time Out Critics’ Picks); Baby Screams Miracle (Woolly Mammoth, Clubbed Thumb); and Dance Nation, which will appear at Playwrights Horizons in 2018 and won the Relentless Award established in honour of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is also the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship and the Paula Vogel Award at the Vineyard

Timothy Wynn is the Artistic Director of THAT Production Company. Since 2009 Timothy has fashioned diverse and imaginative seasons of theatrical experiences as the Artistic Director of THAT Production Company. He has directed over 20 productions, including the Australian premier of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined by Lynn Nottage (at Studio 188, Ipswich) Saved by Edward Bond (at the Old Courthouse, Ipswich); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (at the Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove); Spring’s Awakening (at Metro
Arts, Brisbane). Timothy studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, and trained at the JUTE Theatre Company’s Director Development Program facilitated by Dr David Fenton. Timothy has also worked as an Assistant Director with Backbone Youth Arts, JUTE Theatre Company, Spotlight Theatre, and Fractal Theatre Company. In 2017 his production of Cosi with Beenleigh Theatre Company was nominated for seven Gold Coast Theatre Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress and Best Magic Moment of Theatre. In 2018 Timothy directed Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (also for Beenleigh Theatre Company) and Baal by Bertholt Brecht for Vena Cava Theatre Company. Recently Timothy has nominated for Matilda Awards for his direction of Sea Wall by Simon Stephens and Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe.

Eva Fritz is an Australian-based artist, illustrator and writer residing in Ipswich, Queensland. She has been exhibiting since 2003, from Brisbane to New York, with purchases from the UK, USA and Japan. She works as scenic artist on movies and theatre, and is regularly commissioned to provide public art in the community as well as deliver creative youth workshops. With an academic background in psychology and public health, through her art she has been a keen supporter of organisations that represent mental health, youth homelessness, and child protection. She has worked as an illustrator of children’s mental health resources endorsed by the World Health Organisation and provided material for the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. Her first published illustrated children’s book, Little Things Big Things, is a pictorial introduction to issues of the environment and social justice

Jennifer B Ashley’s choreographic credits include; VILLAINS (Miraball Productions and Saladbowl Collective), PERFECT WORLD and BOOMERS (Theatreroo) and many high- School competition pieces throughout South East Queensland. Her screen credits include;
NEIGHBOURS and THe WRONG GIRL S1/S2 (Channel 10), UTOPIA and NEWTON’S LAW (ABC), FIX-HER-UP and THE VERY EXCELLENT MR DUNDEE (Amazon Prime) and YOUNG ROCK (NBC).  Jennifer’s theatre credits include; BOADECIA (Theatreroo,
Malwinna), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (L&P, Chorus), THE ULTIMATE ABBA EXPERIENCE (L&P, dancer), SPEAKEASY (Candy Shop Show, Singer/dancer), VILLAINS (Miraball, Witch), SPAMALOT (Paterson Productions, Laker Girl).  Jennifer is also the 2022 recipient of the Gold Palm Theatre Award, best actress in a musical revue for her performance as the Witch in Redcliffe’s INTO THE WOODS.