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.

Anna (Pidge), She / her is an arts facilitator, passionate about creating environments where the work of others can flourish.

She has a degree in philosophy and has worked in Radio, the Arts and the Emergency Services as a firefighter all of which feed into her love of talking, problem solving and making things happen in fast-paced, unexpected environments. She loves a late-night heated debate about just about anything and is always prepared to go all in (often with little information).

Anna is passionate about facilitating work that challenges and inspires people and considers herself lucky to have been able to do this with companies of all sizes, including ThisSideUp, Die Roten Punkte, Arena Theatre, Legs on the Wall, Sydney Opera House, Dislocate and The Listies. She was the Stage Manager for Circus Oz for many years, working on Big Top productions and touring to every state and territory in Australia as well as extensively around America and in Europe and the UK.

She loves nothing more than working at arts festivals and particularly loves Edinburgh Fringe as it allows her to take a trip back home whilst enjoying the chaos and adrenaline of the biggest Fringe in the world.

Hi, I’m Sam Mcgilp, a media artist working collaboratively in performance based on Wurrundjeri country in Naarm.

My work comes about by bringing together my expertise in varied digital practices  with artists practices and cultures. My background has been in film, but now I get very excited by created media art that is built on a base of liveness.  In 2020, I created BONANZA! with Harrison Hall and Juzzy Kane as part of Chunky Move’s Activators Program, which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2021 and was selected as a finalist for the Green Room Awards. In 2019, I was awarded an Australia Council professional development grant to undertake residencies at Kinosaki International Art Centre and Do-So Residency, Fujiyoshida.

I also recently completed my PhD at RMIT University, working with Chamber Made investigating Digital Iterations – distinct digital works with a relationship to live performance. My research was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s PhD Scholarship at RMIT and the emerging scholar award at the Art in Society Conference, Vancouver.