Meet the Team…

Artistic Director
Amelia Burke (she/her)

Amelia is a theatre director who fuses her love of live performance with a passion for making work with young people. She has worked as a teaching artist and director for a variety of arts companies across the country. For NIDA Open, she directed and devised a new production of CompanyThree’s Brainstorm and Lachlan Philpott’s Bustown. For La Mama For Kids, Amelia directed and devised Meet My Grandies with a cast of teenagers. In 2023, she directed Maki Morita’s debut play Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise for Theatre Works in Naarm/Melbourne. She also directed Frieda Lee’s All His Beloved Children for KXT on Broadway, for which she was nominated for Best Direction of an Independent Production in the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Amelia is a graduate of the BPA (Performance Making) from WAAPA and the MFA (Directing) from NIDA.

Acting Producer
Zoë Hollyoak (she/her)

Zoë is a Director and Creative Producer who has worked across a range of organisations including Performance Space, Performing Lines, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Zoë runs essential workers, a Sydney-based Performance Making Group.

Zoë combines her significant producing and project management skills with an extensive artistic background that includes projects for NIDA, PICA, triple J Unearthed, Belvoir, The Blue Room Theatre, The Old Fitz and the State Theatre Centre of WA.

As Director: Shitty (Belvoir 25a), Collapsible (Old Fitz), The Changelings (PACT), The Writer (NIDA) Antigonick (NIDA), Cotton Wool Kid (STCWA). As Producer: Never Closer (Belvoir 25a), Horses (Belvoir 25a), All His Beloved Children (KXT), Trash Pop Butterflies Dance Dance Paradise (MKA), Slutdrop (PICA). Awards: NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant, 2024 recipient of The Glorias Fellowship, completing an attachment with The Wooster Group (NYC) under the mentorship of Elizabeth LeCompte.

Campaign Filmmaker
Georgi Ivers (she/they)

Georgi is a performer, theatre-maker and multimedia artist in Boorloo. Her recent projects include You’re So Brave (Blue Room Theatre); Beginning At The End (of Capitalism) (Blue Room Theatre), for which she was nominated for Outstanding Stage Design (PAWAs 2022); and The Dirty Mother (The Blue Room, State of Play), which was rebirthed online under Georgi’s digital direction and nominated for Best Theatre at Melbourne Fringe 2020. She has worked extensively with WAYTCo on Perth Festival and Fringe productions as a performer, assistant director and associate artist (BESIDE, Body Rights, The Cockatoos).

Georgi has a BA Screen Production and has been pole dancing since 2019.