Madeleine Withington graduated from the Actor’s Centre Australia in 2014 and since then has been working as an actor and voiceover artist on a range of projects. Her directorial work is fast, funny, and colourful, with a focus on collaborative story telling. Her aesthetic is unique, and lives in heightened reality, creating a visual feast for audiences. Her first short film “Butter: A Love Story” won Best Comedy at Flickerfest in 2023.

Claudia is a multidisciplinary artist working as a stage manager, actor, director, producer and writer.
Their production credits include The Shakespeare Carnival (Sport for Jove) for the past three years, producing Sotoba Komachi (New Ghosts), producing & hosting the recurring Shakespeare night; Senseless and Fitz, at The Old Fitz Theatre, and producing & directing Julius Caesar and How to Eat the Sun (Little Spirits).
Some of their recent acting credits include: Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Susannah in the feature film Venus & Adonis and Tiresias in Antigone (dir. Damien Ryan); Nina in The Seagull, Romaine Patterson & Aaron Kreifels in The Laramie Project (dir. Adam Cook). They have just begun rehearsals for Vickie & Vinnie, a world premiere for Sydney Fringe.
Claudia is a proud MEAA member and has thoroughly enjoyed being in the rehearsal room to see the brilliant work the team has done to bring The Children to life.

Paris Burrows is a multidisciplinary designer working across fashion, screen and live performance. Her fearless attitude and belief in making purposeful work drivesher to challenge the traditions of art making in time based mediums and the conventions of dress and tailoring in fashion. Paris’s work stand out as experimental, futuristic and dramatic with avant-guard tastes and a refined gothic sensibility. During her time at Nida, she has credits as Costume Designer for Sandaime Richard directed by Ong Keng Sen, Production/Costume Designer for Music Video for Oshua’s Veins, directed by Rebecca MacNamee and Set Designer for The Writer directed by Zoe Hollyoak. Paris also designed the Set and Costumes for Venus in Fur directed by Ryan Whitworth-Jones, nominated for “Best In Theatre” at Sydney Fringe 2023. She is currently preparing to launch her self-titled fashion label Paris Jade Burrows which will launch in late 2023.

www.parisjadeburrows.com

Alexander is a Sydney-based writer, director and composer. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney, AFTRS and NIDA, where he completed his Masters in Writing For Performance. Credits include sound design for Apocka-Wocka-Lockalypse (Tooth & Sinew), Hitler's Daughter (The McDonald College), The Woman And The Car (Ship’s Cat Theatre Company), The Long Haul (Sydney Fringe), Crocodile Fever (KXTeethcutting), The Van De Maar Papers (Ratcatch), Norm's (KXTeethcutting), Whose Uterus Is It Anyway? (BITE), Othello (Sport For Jove) and Two Twenty Somethings Decide Never To Be Stressed About Anything Again Ever (BITE).

Having studied dramaturgy and theatre at UNSW, Amy went into high school teaching- hoping to share her love of theatre and plays with young people. After many years of raising her children, this experience with Joining the Dots Theatre has been a joyful reminder of all she loves about theatre. 

Izzy (she/her) is a recent graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), receiving a BFA in Technical Theatre & Stage Management. She is an emerging lighting artist who is interested in lighting design for various mediums of live performance. With a background in visual arts, Izzy has used her knowledge of art theory and practice to influence her eye for lighting. Izzy is excited to explore the different forms and performance styles lighting design can be utilised. With previous experience in large-scale sports events, gallery installations, and live performances, Izzy continues to grow as a multi-medium artist.

Sonya Kerr is an actor, voice over artist and intimacy director. Some her leading theatre roles include: Jeanne Christie In Their Footsteps - Theatre Travels; Anna Lamb The Sweet Science of Bruising WPC Parker/Hilary Creek The Angry Brigade - New Theatre; Ivy Weston August:Osage County - New Theatre; Kat Seed Bomb - Subtlenuance; Lady MacDuff/Menteith Macbeth - SheShakespeare; Titania A Midsummer Night's Dream - 63 Globes; Catherine Winslow The Winslow Boy - Genesian Theatre; Lady Macbeth Macbeth - Phrankly Theatre. She will next be seen in Hangmen for New Theatre. Although new to the world of intimacy directing, Sonya has worked on Much Ado(Attractive, Not Model Attractive), Ninety (Actors Pulse Theatre), Banging Denmark, The Ballad of Maria Martin,Atlantis and Homos, or Everyone in America (The New Theatre) and the short film Cherry Pie(UTS). She is a proud member of MEAA.