EMMA O'BRIEN (she/they) is the Co- Creator/Director of By Jane’s Hand with her adult daughter Olivia. Emma has directed and edited award-winning music video clips, co-created and co-directed original works created with people living with cancer (A Chorus of Women, and Opera Therapy - subject of an SBS documentary). They are the founder and director of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir and the Global Scrub Choir. Emma recently returned from working on global video projects and performing in Geneva for the World Health Organization and at the UN in Geneva and New York, plus Central Park with Global Scrub Choir and at the Lincoln Centre premiering her new composition ‘Deep Peace’. Emma is a theatre maker, director, writer, performer, singer, composer, music therapist, video editor, choir conductor and researcher. Emma loves swimming in the sea and has loved co-creating this work with their daughter Olivia even more.

OLIVIA O'BRIEN (she/they) is a co–creator of By Jane’s Hand, an actor, singer, instrumentalist, and stilt walker/street performer. They graduated from the University of Melbourne with honours in voice and has since pursued further education and a career in a diverse range of performance practices. Olivia has studied film and television with NIDA and has performed internationally at the United Nations in Geneva and New York City and in Central Park and Lincoln Center, singing alongside Sister Sledge and Ricky Kej. This is Olivia’s first creative writing project with her mother Emma, and she has enjoyed the process of delving deeper into the words, music, and world of Jane Austen through a feminist lens.