Patrick McCarthy (Writer and Director) is a Melbourne based playwright and director. He is currently Artistic Director of Fabricated Rooms. In 2016 his play Grief and the Lullaby received four Green Room Award nominations, including Best Writing. In 2014 he was Writer in Residence at Chamber Made Opera, and from 2008-13 was Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed, multi-award winning independent company Mutation Theatre. He holds a Masters in Writing for Performance from the VCA, University of Melbourne. His work includes Grief and the Lullaby (writer/director, Theatre Works, 2015), Wake (contributing writer, Chamber Made Opera, 2014), LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM MY VICE-LIKE GRIP (director, Next Wave Festival, 2012) and So Blue So Calm (writer/director, Mutation Theatre, 2011). He has been mentored by Daniel Schlusser, Raimondo Cortese and Angus Cerini. He is also the creator of the web series Long Neck Fridays.
Robert Jordan (Composer) is a Melbourne based composer, sound designer, video artist and experimental electronics developer. Robert graduated from a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media from RMIT in 2009. He then completed a post-graduate diploma in Performance Creation (Production, Sound) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011. As well as creating sound design for traditional theatre and dance, Robert is passionate about exploring the creatively fertile intersection between art and technology. His work is often characterised by an unusual and sophisticated use of audio, interactive technology and custom AV system designs. In 2015, through the Gertrude Street Festival’s inaugural mentoring program, Robert presented Pulse TV’s, a series of stand-alone screen works for public space. These small electronic “creatures” were mounted upon street-sign poles and responded to human touch with sound and video “chatter”. In 2014, Robert created the City Scanner, a wearable kit for exploring and synthesising the unseen forces of the city.
Robert has recently collaborated on: Vanitas, an interactive smart phone app by Robert Walton and Jason Maling as part of the Festival of Live Art 2016, The Becalmed Heart a large scale immersive installation with Brienna Macnish and Clare McCracken (Underbelly Festival, 2015), POV, an augmented reality work for young audiences by Arena Theatre Company 2015, A Singular Phenomenon, an interactive contemporary performance work (Aphids/Malthouse Theatre, 2015), and HOME, a site specific audio-theatre work by Brienna Macnish (Next Wave Festival, 2014).
Robert also produces limited edition audio and video synths under the name Cat Full of Ghosts.