Tristan Meecham is an artist who facilitates creative frameworks that enable social transformation; connecting community, audience and artists together in events that transcend the everyday. He is the Director of All The Queens Men.

All The Queens Men create spectacular theatrical and participatory arts experiences. Established with Bec Reid, All The Queens Men champion social equality, celebrating diverse community through creative actions and socially engaged frameworks.

Tristan was Artistic Director of Give it up for Margaret: A month of philanthropic inspiration, a month long festival inspiring innovative arts philanthropy. GIUFM was created in partnership with Victorian College of the Arts, Margaret Lawrence Bequest and over 20 subsidiary organisations.

Tristan was the creative lead for Going Nowhere, a sustainable international arts exchange at Arts House (2015 Green Room Award for Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance). He remounted The Everyday Imaginarium as part of Vitalstatistix’s Climate Century in Port Adelaide. From 2010-2014, Tristan was an Artistic Associate and the Philanthropic Manager of Aphids.

Tristan is the recipient of the VCA George Fairfax Memorial Award, British Council’s Realise Your Dream Award and the inaugural Richard Pratt Scholarship. He was the Chair of Green Room Award’s Contemporary and Experimental Performance Panel (2013-2017). Tristan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from QUT and Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Acting) from VCA.

Bec is an Australian based performer, producer, director, choreographer and engagement specialist.  Bec encourages people to see their world in new ways through highly physical, participatory, practical, collaborative and celebratory actions.  For over 18 years, Bec has passionately worked in the space where professional artists and communities of interest meet; collaborating with communities and artists nationally and internationally. In 2017-18, Bec is a Fellowship recipient from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Bec has produced and performed for major arts festivals and organisations nationwide including; Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane and Next Wave Festivals, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Dance House, Arts Centre Melbourne, Victorian Seniors Festival, VicHealth and City of Melbourne’s Arts and Participation Program.

Together with Tristan Meecham, Bec leads All The Queens Men creating participatory, community-committed experiences and practicing nationally and internationally since 2010.

Since 2011, Bec has been a key collaborator with internationally renowned German theatre makers, Rimini Protokoll as the Associate Director of reality theatre juggernauts, 100% Melbourne (City of Melbourne), 100% Darwin (Darwin Festival) and 100% Brisbane (Museum of Brisbane).

Bec has also collaborated with acclaimed Australian artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey for over ten years including the award winning water based project, Five Short Blasts.

Together with Ian Pidd and Kate McDonald, Bec is also founder of Everybody Now!, creating large scale participatory projects Australia-wide.  In 2015 and 2016 Bec collaborated with Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre (NT) directing large-scale, site specific, dance projects.

Bec has continually served on various arts boards and regularly mentors young and emerging artists formally and informally.  Bec’s true loves are Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Ceilidhs, Italo Disco and dancing.

Adelaide (she/her) is a creative producer, die hard science-fiction fan, curious cook, committed bicycle rider; gratefully living on Ngunnawal country. She makes conversation, spreadsheets and good cups of tea. Across the past 10 years Adelaide has built a practice specialising in public and participatory art, community engaged place-making and creating frameworks for artists development.

Adelaide has collaborated with a diverse range of activist, cultural and community organisations on events, festivals and radio shows including Next Wave, Melbourne Fringe, This Is Not Art Festival, You Are Here, 2XXFM, 3CR, Amnesty International and Right Now. With a bunch of excellent humans, Adelaide led You Are Here, Canberra’s festival of experimental and live art from 2014 to 2017, producing projects that forecast the emotional weather in a bus interchange, and elected Canberra’s first (and only) Mayor who incidentally, was a drag queen.

With her collective, Lady Producer Gang, Adelaide is an alumni of Next Wave’s Kickstart Helix program and received a Career Development Grant from the Australia Council to research independent producing practice in Australia. She is currently working on creative recovery and resilience programs in the public sector, and is part of the Australia Council for the Arts Future Leaders program.

Zohar Spatz – Chair

Zohar Spatz is a creative leader working in government and not-for-profit sectors of the creative industries. Zohar has worked extensively within a cross cultural development space, successfully leading the commission of a number of intercultural collaborations and commissions in which projects have toured across India, Indonesia and Singapore.

Her current roles include: Executive Director of La Boite Theatre Company and Festival Director for Horizon Festival, Previous roles include: Executive Producer (2014 – 2018) of the Australian Performing Arts Market, Producer of the World Theatre Festival as well as Operation Manager of Australia’s leading cultural exchange program, Garma and The Dreaming Festival. Zohar has also held producing positions at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Angharad Wynne-Jones – Deputy Chair

Angharad is a cultural leader currently working as the Head of Creative Engagement at Arts Centre Melbourne. Previous roles include: Artistic Director at Arts House (where she led Australia’s dance festival Dance Massive, and initiated Australia’s first international biennial Festival of Live Art, and art and climate change projects Green Room award winning Going Nowhere and Refuge), Director of the Performance Space, Executive Producer and Co-Founder Chunky Move, Associate Director in the 2002 Adelaide Festival , Director and CEO of London International Theatre Festival and Curator and Director the first Australian Theatre Forum. She is Founder Director of TippingPoint Australia and and co-designed and delivered NIDA’s MFA Cultural Leadership course. She is currently on the Creative Industries Advisory Group for Victoria’s new Creative State policy development.

Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon is Professor, Film and Television. He is a lawyer and screen content producer. He was a founder and first Executive Chairman of Matchbox Pictures Pty Ltd. He has held a wide range of management and legal positions as well as board appointments including Screen Tasmania and Film Victoria. His documentary production credits include Sadness, Wildness and the Anatomy Series, The Coming Back Out Ball Movie. His television credits include Call Me Mum, Saved, The Slap and series 1 of Nowhere Boys. Feature film credits are The Home Song Stories, Lou, Cut Snake and Ali’s Wedding. Michael was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Screen Producers Australia in 2018.

Julia Mardjuki, Secretary

Julia is a practicing landscape architect in the local government sector. She has worked both in private practice and the community sector. She collaborated with All The Queens Men as a community performer in their event Fun Run in 2010, and again in 2013. With a background in strategic development, planning, and advocacy across local government and the not-for- profit sectors, Julia has worked for organisations like Fitzroy Learning Network, City of Port Phillip, and City of Yarra. She is a passionate supporter of the arts, and she regularly champions the local community.

Desmond Campbell

Desmond is a Manager with SVA Consulting and is currently supporting SVA’s work with Court Services Victoria on the evaluation of Marram-Ngala Ganbu. Desmond is of the Gurindji (Southern-Western Desert) and the Ngalakan (South-East Arnhem Land) people. Desmond’s most recent professional working experience has been with the Northern Territory Government including: Operations Manager for the community based Family Violence Program with NT Correctional Services, which also included public policy and framework development and implementation around family and domestic violence prevention; a Project Officer developing a gender equity strategy with the Anti-Discrimination Commission; and, more recently, Senior Executive Officer for the Attorney General and Justice Department for the Northern Territory.