Michele is an actor, writer, director, musician and artist. Recent work includes writing and directing The Poet’s Guide to Science (Questacon, Adelaide Festival Fringe & Powerhouse), performing in Rumpelstiltskin and the Missing Research Grants (Smiths Alternative, Canberra) and Stir Fried Science (Butterfly Club, Melbourne, and Sydney Fringe Festival). As an actor, she has performed all over Australia including Bridie in The Shoe-horn Sonata at the Joan Sutherland Centre and the narrator in Peter and the Wolf for Lane Cove Philharmonic Society). In the UK she was part of the Liverpool Theatre Royal’s repertory company, performed in Sunset Song at the Edinburgh Fringe as the narrator - with a completely believable Scottish accent - and in the Half Moon Theatre production of Karl Valentin’s Komiker Kabaret. Karl Valentin, an anti-authoritarian Bavarian comic, was, like Svejk, one of Bertolt Brecht’s inspirations.

Theo Rule has written for and performed on many stages across Sydney and Newcastle. He studied at Actors Centre Australia and has taught drama to young people for many years. Recent stage credits include Henry VI Part 1 (Sydney Shakespeare Company, 2025), Vickie and Vinnie (Coffee House Productions, 2024), The Crucible (Point Break Drama, 2024), Single Ladies (Seed and Bloom, 2023), Brontë (Genesian Theatre, 2023), and Seed Hunters (Scene Theatre Sydney 2025).‍ ‍He received City of Newcastle Dramatic Awards (CONDA) for his original works I’ll be home for Christmas in 2020 and Saviour’s Day in 2016.Theo is also an editor for Take 5 magazine.

Patrick is an actor, director, teacher and writer. Acting credits include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare on the Green), Macbeth in Macbeth (Bondi Pavillion), Kent in King Lear and Polonius in Hamlet (Harlos Productions) Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Global Village Theatre), Amadeus in Amadeus (Enmore Theatre), Farmer Hoggett in Babe the Sheep Pig and Bill Barnacle in The Magic Pudding (MSTYP). He toured the UK in Shakespeare’s Queens: She-Wolves and Serpents in the role of Will Shakespeare, playing at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Edinburgh Fringe before a season on the West End. His television roles include Darwin’s Brave New World, The Escape of the Artful Dodger, Farscape 2 and All Saints. Patrick is also a high school English and drama teacher. 

Ciarán is a member of Come You Spirits, an independent Shakespeare company, for whom he plays Puck, Romeo, Ferdinand and Macduff. Other recent credits include Estragon in Waiting For Godot (ACA Wheelhouse), Isaac in Grain in the Blood at KXT (Virginia Plain), Chimerica (New Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (Newcastle Fringe, National Folk Festival). Ciarán is an ACA graduate, and also a voice actor and morris dancer.

Carol is the Artistic Director of Scene Theatre Sydney, a company she founded in 2008. Fourteen of her short plays have been produced in play festivals (Sydney, India, Malaysia and Lake Macquarie).  Her play Indian Embrace was produced by Nautanki Theatre (Riverside) and then by the Indian Association (Adelaide). She produced her first full length play Spiral of Love at the Old Fitz in 2008. Her other self-produced full plays are On Golden Soil, Gallery Guard‍, Future Seekers and Seed Hunters.

Carol initiated the idea of WORLDS ALIVE, script-in-hand readings of global plays. WORLDS ALIVE has become Scene Theatre Sydney’s annual presentation of excellent plays never seen before in Australia from unexpected places, including Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Korea, Indonesia, The Philippines, Brazil, Ukraine, Japan, Iraq and India. WORLDS ALIVE 2027 plays are from Saint Lucia, Czech Republic, Uganda and Senegal