HOMO FOMO

Director’s      Note

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Dramaturg’s     Note

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CREATIVE    TEAM

HOMO FOMO is made by an intergenerational team of queer artists. 
They are: 

Alyson     Campbell

Director, Co-Creator

Alyson Campbell is an award-winning director and dramaturg whose work spans a broad range of companies and venues in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 30 years. Works include 'Feral Queer Camp', 'promiscuous/cities', 'Cake Daddy', 'Colder', 'DFLTLX', 'GL RY/WHoLE', 'The Trouble with Harry' and 'Catapult'. Alyson is a Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where her research, artistic practice as a director, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality.

Meta    Cohen

Concept  |  Sound Designer, Dramaturg, Co-Creator

Meta Cohen is a composer, sound designer,  dramaturg and Bad Queer with work spanning music, theatre and interdisciplinary art. Meta’s music features on Australia’s first queer classical album ('Spectrum': Divisi Chamber Singers), and their  queer song cycle 'a love is a love is a love', commissioned by ABC Classic, was released in June 2023. Recent theatre credits include the UK/European premiere of 'promiscuous/cities' (dir. Alyson Campbell) as part of the British Council’s UK/Australia Season in London. Meta is currently undertaking a PhD in queer performance, which they hope will make them a Better Queer.

Emma   

Lockhart-Wilson

Lighting designer, Co-Creator          

Emma Lockhart-Wilson is a creative artist based in lighting and spatial design for performance. She works collaboratively with performance makers to create visually cohesive work and has a strong interest in the interactivity of performer bodies and designed elements. Emma has designed lighting for companies including THE RABBLE, Australian Theatre for Young People, Monkey Baa, Applespiel, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, DeQunicy Co. and Version 1.0. Emma is currently undertaking a PhD at the VCA, University of Melbourne, researching design practices and affect in the field of queer feminist performance in Australia. 

Manderson-Galvin

Kerith    

PERFORMER, Co-Creator

Kerith Manderson-Galvin is a Queer Femme non-binary performer and performance maker who creates unconventional works of theatre and performance art. Their work explores Queer femininity and radically soft performance that plays with time, reality and feelings. Kerith has performed across Australia in theatres, galleries, gigs, and art and music festivals including at RISING, RCC, Dark Mofo, Winter Wild, Provocare, Art Gallery of NSW. 

Peta    Murray

Co-Creator                    

Peta Murray is a playwright, writer-performer, librettist and dramaturg. Best known for 'Wallflowering', she is also author of award- winning plays for young people, including 'Spitting Chips', and an adaptation of Tim Winton’s 'Blueback'. She has written more than 15 plays, all of which have seen professional production. Peta holds an MA in Playwriting from QUT and a PhD at from RMIT University, where she is a lecturer in the School of Media and Communication. Her research focus includes art-based activism, the generation of new secular rituals for navigating crises in times of change, and the investigation of innovative approaches to collaboration and artistic cross-pollination, based on “radical joy”, associative leaps and communal meaning-making. 

Spanky

Performer, Co-Creator

Spanky (aka Rhys Morgan) is a multi-award winning Cabaret Artiste who graduated from Toi Whaakri/ NZ Drama school and began their “shabby drag” career in London at the famous east end venue Bistotheque holdong a residency for seven years and becoming the darling of the east end alt cabaret scene.
Spanky ‘s solo cabarets have performed all over Australia in festivals such as Fringeworld, Adeladie Fringe, Feast, Festival of Voices, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Sydney Pride and the NZ International Festival of the Arts. Works include Candice McQueen Nasty, Dead Bitches, Matthew Mitcham’s Twists and Turns and Under the Covers. 

Freddie      Fitzpatrick- 

Lubowitz

STAGE MANAGER/ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 

Freddie is currently studying a Master of Theatre (Directing) at the Victorian College of the Arts, they are a queer and autistic writer and director and sometimes stage manager working between Melbourne and Sydney. They are excited by stories that look at the messy side of being human. They love stories that explore the comedy in the drama over the drama in the comedy, that is to say: How do we find moments of light in the darkness?

Thank     you

The HOMO FOMO team would like to thank:

All collaborators up to this point: İbrahim Halaçoğlu, Cohan, Maude Davey, Hayley Edwards, Zachary Sheridan, Nikki Viveca, Yuchen Wang and James Wardlaw;

Other contributors: Will McBride, Naavikaraan, Nory Gretz, Goran Duric;

Our community interviewees, who were so generous in sharing their life experiences and stories with us;

Our test audiences;

The Theatre staff at the VCA;

Anthony Wallace and the team at The 86 
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The HOMO FOMO team would like to acknowledge the life of Pieter Hummel, who we were privileged to interview but sadly passed away before the show's premiere. Pieter was an important queer elder: a participant in the first-ever Mardi Gras, who worked as a nurse in Australia's biggest AIDS ward during the crisis. We want to honour and remember Pieter's immense kindness, fierce intelligence and significant contribution to the LGBTQIA+ community.