Anna Tregloan — Co-creator
Anna Tregloan is a leading cross-disciplinary artist and scenographer based on Gadigal land/Sydney, whose practice spans visual arts, live performance, and museum design. As writer and director she has created critically acclaimed works including BLACK (Malthouse), Skinflick (Artshouse) and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Melbourne Festival). Her THE GHOST PROJECT series has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, and her creative archive THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT won Outstanding Advocacy at the Victorian Greenroom Awards. Recent works include WONDERLAND (2018) and GODDESS (2024) for ACMI, and BELIEF SYSTEM (2024), co-created with Adriano Cortese and finalist for The Blake Prize. Recent design credits include Henry V (2025) for Bell Shakespeare and The River (2026) for Sydney Theatre Company. She has collaborated with Ranters Theatre across three productions — Holiday, Intimacy and St Kilda Tales — which have toured extensively in Europe and North America. Tregloan has been recognised with the John Truscott Award for Design Excellence, a Helpmann Award, and multiple Green Room Awards, and has served as Curator of the Australian Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial of Space and Design (2015 and 2019). Her works are held in collections including the Performing Arts Museum and The Powerhouse Museum.
Adriano Cortese — Co-creator
Adriano Cortese is a theatre-maker and Artistic Director of Melbourne-based Ranters Theatre, whose work has been presented in theatres, found spaces, homes, gardens and streets across Australia, Europe, North America and Asia. Ranters partners with major venues and festivals including Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne and Malthouse Theatre, and has won seven Victorian Green Room Awards with over twenty nominations, as well as international award nominations at Dublin Theatre Festival and the Wales Theatre Awards. Notable works include Intimacy, which received critical acclaim at Festival d'Automne à Paris, Come Away with Me to the End of the World, invited to Dublin Theatre Festival, and Song, recently invited to the inaugural Temasya International Arts Festival in Kuala Lumpur. His international collaborations include Unknown Neighbour with South Korea's Creative VaQi, and from 2017–2021 he served as Co-Artistic Director of the Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival. Adriano has collaborated with Anna Tregloan across three Ranters productions — Holiday, Intimacy and St Kilda Tales — building a long creative partnership that extends into BELIEF SYSTEM.
Bob Jarvis — Composition and Programming
Bob Jarvis is an Australian artist and researcher working with music, vision and code to explore multimodal composition and performance. He is Director of Technology with Melbourne interactive arts company Playable Streets, a PhD candidate in the Audio-kinetic Experiments Lab at RMIT University, and a supervisor in the Interactive Composition department at the Victorian College of the Arts. His audio-visual works have won awards at the International Space Time Concerto Competition and the International Visual Music Awards, and he is the first Certified Trainer for the multimedia programming environment Max in the Asia/Oceania region.
Govin Ruben — Lighting consultant
Govin Ruben is a Malaysian Australian lighting designer, performance maker and director based in Melbourne, and director of TerryandTheCuz. His practice creates new forms using interactive and visual stimulus to reflect the shifting socio-political landscape, with the aim of attracting new and diverse audiences to the arts. He is a multiple Greenroom Award winner, five-time winner of the National Arts Award in Malaysia, and has received nominations for a New York City Innovative Theatre Award and a Royal Welsh Theatre Award. Recent credits include Song and Intimacy with Ranters Theatre, Sky Blue Mythic at Sydney Opera House, and Wherever She Wanders for Griffin Theatre.