Davina Wright is a performance maker and director who has worked primarily within non-traditional performance. She is Artistic Director of the award-winning queer feminist performance collective Gold Satino. Her 2017 production This Grayson was nominated for Green Room Awards in four categories and won awards for Innovation in Site Responsive Performance and for Outstanding Work for Young Audiences. She has presented at international festivals including the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) and the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) World Congress. Davina has had extensive experience facilitating performance work with young people. In 2021 she worked with Alex Walker and Terrapin Puppet Theatre to help a group of young people re-write the Australian National Anthem for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022. Since then, she has been working with artist Billie Rankin and a group of artists/teenagers on a work called Thnx 4 Nothing which explores teenage pregnancy, global warming, and the housing crisis in Hobart.

Sam Routledge is a director, and creator of contemporary puppetry, with a strong record of innovation in the form. He has been the Artistic Director of Terrapin Puppet Theatre since November 2012, where he has co-led the growth of the company and its admission into the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework with Executive Producer Belinda Kelly. Sam has created and co-created 19 original works including five international touring productions: Men Of Steel (2006), I Think I Can (2013), You and Me and The Space Between (2016), Infinite Monster (2017) and Anthem Anthem Revolution (2022). Collectively these five productions have played in 11 countries including Japan, China, South Korea, New Zealand, USA and the UK.

Alex Walker is an inclusive youth arts practitioner making live art with a cross-section of young people at the point where the spheres of children, arts, culture, and politics intersect. With an outstanding ability to celebrate and curate their artistic contribution, Alex has a profound impact on the young people she works with. She believes they are natural generators of art, due to the fluidity of their emotions, abundant sense of play, organic experimentation, and inherent need to move. Alex is intrigued and enamoured with the perspective of the young, simultaneously demanding of truth and generous with explanation; always raw. Working across contexts, she is heavily invested in carving out a place for the voice and position of the young person to have an impact on their environment and community. She insists that young people are armed with cultural agency and demands that their work, framed by excellent contemporary art practice, occupies a pivotal place in the theatre landscape.