Kasey Gambling

Kasey is a socially engaged artist creating experiences that bridge digital media, audio and performance in Naarm/Melbourne. An award-winning theatre-maker, writer and performer, Kasey creates intimate pieces for small audiences exploring misogyny and gender-based inequality, with a focus on lived experience.

Kasey's work, The Maze, a single-audience site-specific walk allowing participants to witness firsthand the fear of a woman walking alone at night, won Melbourne Fringe NSW Tour Ready & Summerhall Awards, as well as the Adelaide Fringe John Chataway Innovation Award. Most recently, Kasey developed The Hotline with City of Melbourne’s Test Sites program. Satirising anti-choice pregnancy helplines, The Hotline appeared at Melbourne Fringe, Counihan Gallery and Fitzroy Public Gallery; it was also nominated for Best Experimental Game at Freeplay Independent Games Festival and shortlisted for the UK’s New Media Writing Prize.

 Kasey is a recipient of Creative Australia’s 2024 Digital Fellowship.

Jo Redfearn

Jo is a director, performer, theatre and film maker. As a recipient of The British Council’s Realise Your Dream award she traveled to the UK on a professional development tour where she met and observed theatre professionals throughout the UK. Through this experience she developed a particular interest in contemporary dance philosophy and working with Viewpoints to provide accessible movement, devising and rehearsal techniques for actors. Upon her return She devised and directed two experimental immersive theatre productions for Little Sister Projects; Are you there Louise Lovely? and Beware the Youth. Her most recent directing credits are Low Level Panic with Someone Else Theatre and True Love’s Sight, a group devised performance, as part of La Mama Explorations 2015. She was Assistant Director on The Honeytrap's production of The Mistakes Madeline Made. Stage performance credits include Scarborough, Savage in Limbo (The Honeytrap), and All This Intimacy (Chapel off Chapel). Screen credits include the independent feature Bound By Blue and web series Cop Hard. In 2016 she completed the Foundations Film-Making program at The Victorian College of the Arts during which she wrote and directed 2 short films: The Replacement and A Bad Plan. Jo trained in the Meisner technique with Ward Studio and studied acting and film making at the Lee Strasberg institute for Film and Theatre, NYC.