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 action and in exciting art contexts.

Recent creative actions include; The Coming Back Out Ball, a spectacular social event held at the Melbourne Town Hall celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) elders; LGBTI Elders Dance Club, a monthly social event for LGBTI elders; Congress, a citizens’ assembly in which diverse community members collaborate with professional wordsmiths to create first speeches and personal visions for our collective future; and Fun Run, a riotous performance spectacle in Tristan runs a marathon on a treadmill live on stage supported by hundreds of performers from the local community.

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 15 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, Foostcray Community Arts Centre, Dance House, Arts Centre Melbourne and City of Melbourne’s Arts and Participation Program.

Together with Tristan Meecham, Bec leads All The Queens Men creating participatory, theatrical experiences of scale. Their sport/art spectacle Fun Run has been performed nationally and internationally since 2010 (Melbourne, Darwin, Sydney, South Korea, Finland and Gold Coast).

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. In 2016, (once again in collaboration with Madeleine and Tim), Bec commenced Weekly Ticket Footscray, a new 15 year long durational public art work set in one of Melbourne’s busiest metropolitan train stations.

Together with Ian Pidd and Kate McDonald, Bec is also founder of Everybody Now!, creating large space participatory art works Australia-wide. Since 2015 Bec has been collaborating with Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre (NT) directing large-scale, site specific dance projects and in 2017 she tours varying projects to Hamburg, Darwin, Winton and Blakall.

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 and dancing.