CARISSA LICCIARDELLO is a director based on Gadigal Land. She was Resident Director at Belvoir St Theatre from 2022 to 2024, following her position as Associate Artist in 2021 and the company’s inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow in 2018 and 2019. Recent work as Director includes—for Belvoir, Scenes from the Climate Era (2023); as Director/Adaptor, Opening Night (2022) and A Room of One’s Own (2020/2021); as Associate Director, Fangirls (2019/2021), Counting & Cracking (2019); as Production Dramaturg, Nayika: A Dancing Girl (2024), Miss Peony (2023). Other work as Director includes—for Malthouse, Anna K (2022); for National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Machinal (2022). Carissa is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts’ Directing course, and was a recipient of NIDA’s Glorias Fellowship in 2020.

ELSIE YAGER is a director and writer working between London and Australia. She is a graduate of University of London’s MA Theatre Directing course where she studied under Katie Mitchell and received the inaugural Alison Hodge Prize for Excellence in Theatre Directing. Elsie was a JMK Award finalist in 2022, and winner of the Projekt Europa Elevate award. She has a background in devised physical theatre and arts and disability facilitation. Elsie is also a graduate of Actors Centre Australia. Recent work as Director/ Adaptor includes IPHIGENIA; or the sacrifices of a young woman in nine movements (2023) and Colonus (2022).