Our Team
WAYTCo is run by a core team of three. The company also casually employs a pool of both emerging and established teaching artists. We're super friendly, pop by the studio to say 'hello'!
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.
Senior Producer
Ariane Katscherian (she/her)
Ariane Katscherian (she/her) is a producer, multidisciplinary artist and community arts worker with a background in programming, producing and coordinating production across theatre, music, dance, film, visual arts and festivals.
Program Coordinator (Schools & Communities)
Simone Detourbet (she/her)
Simone is a Malak Malak & Gooniyandi woman from Darwin, now Perth-based where she is an emerging actor, writer and director. In 2016 she completed the Aboriginal Theatre & Screen Performance Course at WAAPA. Simone has also participated in several artist residencies and in 2018 was a key creative for a documentary filmed in Rwanda. Simone is passionate about the development of young people, especially those who are First Nations, underrepresented or disadvantaged.