Emily Taylor (Writer/Performer) is a multi-award winning actor, writer, improviser and comedian. Having worked extensively as a theatre actor for the past 10 years, Emily also writes and creates theatre and comedy shows. Her debut solo comedy show PET premiered at the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival where it performed to sold out audiences. Emily's critically acclaimed solo show Cannonball won the Tiki Tour Ready Award at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival and Best Solo Show at New Zealand Fringe Festival in 2013. After a short MICF season in 2013 it was selected to tour regional Victoria with Melbourne Fringe On Tour in 2013/2014 and made its QLD debut at Brisbane Festival last year. Emily's debut cabaret show Hello You won a Green Room Award in 2010 and since then Emily has co-created two improvised cabaret shows: Is This Your Life and Ten Minutes of Fame. A regular face on commercial television, Emily recently appeared on Season Two of It's A Date for ABC2. Emily has performed with Spontaneous Broadway, Impro Melbourne, Melbourne Theatre Company Education, Arena Theatre Company and is an ensemble member of Melbourne Playback Theatre Company and Impromptunes. In addition to her work as a performer, Emily works as a teaching artist with Melbourne Theatre Company, Arena Theatre Company, Malthouse, G.A.T.E.WAYS, and Melbourne Playback Theatre Company.
Glynis Angell (Outside Eye) works as a professional actor, performance maker, teacher and director. A graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School, she co-wrote and performed in her solo show Haul Away, Winner Best Female Performer (Independent Theatre) Green Rooms Awards 2007 and Best New Australian Play Nominee. She is a founding member of physical theatre companies Hunchback Theatre (Not Another Bloody Stiff, Whites of Their Eyes), Blue Vault (Inner Cities) and The Business. Recent theatre acting roles for Here Theatre include Prophet & Loss, Letters From Animals, Asylum and The Time is Not Yet Ripe - Winner Best Ensemble (Independent Theatre) Green Rooms Awards 2007. In 2009 Glynis toured to Singapore to work with The Necessary Stage and The Tony Yap Company in Past Caring. Glynis has extensive experience devising and performing with companies in Australia including numerous La Mama shows (Not Dead Yet - The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole, Cyrano de Bergerac as Told by 3 Idiots), actors’ furniture group (Butcher, Endgrain) and Melbourne Workers’ Theatre (HardTimes). Film and television credits include leading roles in: Waiting at The Royal (Winner 2001 Banf International Film Festival Best Film Made for Television), An Angel at my Table, The Interview, and guest roles in Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and MDA. Glynis directed Djoushi Cabana: The Dilapidated Diva & Her Three Piece Outfit - Winner 2000 Best of The Melbourne Fringe Festival. Her dramaturgical work includes projects with independent performing artists Kate Hunter and Emillie Collyer - Maybe We're Never Together (Big West Festival 2011), Kate Hunter - list(n) 2010, and Penny Baron - The Lab (2009 and 2010). For several years Glynis was a performer and Co-Artistic Director of improvisation company Melbourne Playback Theatre. She teaches and directs performance in various contexts including Victoria University TAFE, The National Theatre School, The Women's Circus, in primary schools and people with disabilities.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Gus McMillan (Sound Design) has a background in both music and management, and specialises in composition and sound design for theatre, dance and film. With over 22 years experience in the arts industry he conceived of and manages the Blue Grassy Knoll’s filmscore projects and is also producer and composer-in-residence with Redspan Dance Company. He works as a freelance composer/sound designer for companies such as Red Stitch Theatre and Complete Works Theatre and performs in Melbourne bands Hobson’s Choice, Devil Goat Family String Band and Stretch ‘n’ the Truth. In 2004 he completed a Graduate Diploma Course in Sound Design at Victorian College of the Arts, working with sound and music in a variety of different of art forms and collaborated with artists including Robert Draffin, Jon Bolton, Vanessa Pigrum, Kat Stewart, Dave Graney, Alison Bell and Leah Purcell. At the beginning of 2008 he worked in London as composer-in-residence for Theatre O’s production of Delirium (an adaptation of Brother’s Karamazov), which was performed at the Barbican Theatre in November 2008. In 2009 he performed with Chinese guitarist Akbar Ablitz as part of the Split Festival in Beijing and also created sound and music for the show Copernicus at the Melbourne Planetarium that won Peoples Choice Award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2012 Gus created the sound design for Emily Taylor's multi-award winning solo show Cannonball for Melbourne Fringe Festival, which went on to tour New Zealand, regional Victoria and was picked up by Brisbane Festival in 2013. Gus works as a freelance session musician and runs the Melbourne School of Banjo where he teaches students one on one. On top of this he has an Honours Degree in English and a Masters Degree in Australian Studies from Monash University, and was the 2005 Guildford Banjo Jamboree’s two-tune pick-off champion.
Josh Dore (Producer) has been working as a producer of independent theatre for the past decade. After making his start in Western Australia producing for award winning writer/ director Emma Humphreys, he moved to Melbourne in 2010 to further his career. Since that time he has worked for countless independent comedy productions and as production manager for Impro Melbourne. Josh has produced Celebrity TheatreSports at the National Theatre, multiple productions at the Melbourne Fringe and several productions at the Town Hall as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has also produced stand-up, sketch and improv shows at the Imperial Hotel and the Impro Classic working with international artists and directors from New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the USA.