Current Panel Members

Panel Heads:
DEBORAH LEISER-MOORE has worked in physical contemporary performance since 1989 and has toured nationally and internationally (recently returned from San Francisco with her solo work Cordelia, Mein Kind). She has studied in Japan with Tadashi Suzuki, trained in the work of Ettiene Decroux, taught in many universities, presented her work at many conferences and has been the recipient of a number of grants. Deborah is now working on a new major performance work and is Artistic Director of Tashmadada.
Members:
ROGER ALSOP is a sound designer, composer, musician and media artist. He works with VicHealth, La Mama, MIAF, and the Royal Botanic Gardens. He also creates musical and audiovisual improvisations, live mixes, and sound and media designs for performance. Roger teaches Sound Design (VCA: UoM), Performative Architecture (Melbourne School of Design; UoM), and Production Styles (Box Hill Institute).
JASON CROSS is a Co-Director of Insite Arts and works as a creative producer, artistic director, live performance director and occasional performer. Jason has been Artistic Director of Big West Festival and Senior Program Manager of the Adelaide Fringe. Jason was a founding member of outdoor performance company 5 Angry Men and has worked with Anthill Theatre, Playbox, Five Dollar Theatre, Victorian State Opera, La Mama and Primary Source.
SUSIE DEE has worked extensively in theatre as a performer, devisor and director both in Australia and overseas for over 30 years. She had her own award-winning company, Institute of Complex Entertainment (ICE), a collective of professional artists that created theatre outside traditional venues and challenged audiences in both form and content. Susie was Artistic Director of Melbourne Workers Theatre, the Festival Of The Southern Ocean 2000 and Union House Theatre.
GAIL KELLY has directed and devised contemporary performance projects across a range of art forms, including: youth theatre, multicultural theatre, community theatre, contemporary performance, circus and physical theatre. She also devised a series of hybrid, cross-art form and interdisciplinary contemporary Australian performances & directed solo physical performances in Australia and the UK. Gail worked in film and radio and is currently the director of the Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association.
TRISTAN MEECHAM
ROBERT REID is a freelance playwright, director and academic. He was Artistic Director and a founding member of Theatre in Decay and also of the experimental puppet and visual theatre company, Terrible Comfort. He most recently had his play The Joy of Text produced at Melbourne Theatre Company. He is the editor of Australian Puppeteer, the national puppetry magazine for UNIMA Australia and a reviewer for theatrealive.com.
INGRID VOORENDT has worked as a theatre maker since 1996, specialising in collaboratively devised performance. She has a long history with Restless Dance Theatre and was the company’s artistic director in 2007/2008. Ingrid co-founded Ladykillers in 2006, has a body of work as an independent artist and has collaborated with a range of artists and companies. Ingrid recently completed a Master of Animateuring at VCA.
WILLOH S.WEILAND is an artist, writer, curator and the Artistic Director of APHIDS, a cultural organisation creating collaborations across artforms and borders. Recent APHIDS projects include Exile, an Opera for the iPad; Void Love, online soap opera about astrophysics; Thrashing Without Looking; a live-cinema and performance work experienced through video goggles and Atelier Edens, a two- year research project investigating the sustainable creation of cross-artform works in remote locations.
On Leave:
LAURENCE STRANGIO
JANA PERKOVIC