Amy May Nunn
(They/Them)
Co-FOUNDER and artistic director
Amy is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre-maker living in Naarm, and originally from the UK. They proudly identify as queer, non-binary and neurodiverse. Their work has been featured in various publications including Voiceworks, Verandah, Island, Windmills, Metre Maids and Award-Winning Australian Writing. They are a two-time recipient of the Mathew Rocca Award for poetry, winner of the Express Media Award for poetry and the John Marsden Prize. They have been a featured artists with The Wheeler Centre, Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writers Festival. Their plays have been nominated for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, the ATYP Foundation Commission and the Canberra Youth Theatre Emerging Playwright Commission. They were an inaugural recipient of the Gasworks Arts Park Event Commission in 2020.
Amy has worked with Gasworks Arts Park, The Dog Theatre, The Southwark Playhouse (UK), and Theatre Works. They were selected for the ASSITEJ Next Generation Programme in Pakistan (2020), are an Associate Artist alum at Theatre Works, a current member of the She-Writes Collective, and the Midsumma Pathways Programme (2022-2023). Recently they have been a lead artist in Antipodes Winter Lab (2022), and the Geelong Arts Centre and Performing Lines ‘Creative Engine Artists Residency’ (2023).
They graduated the full-time course at 16th St Actors Studio and their MA in Writing for Performance at The VCA.
Danielle Goder
(They/She)
Co-FOUNDER
Danielle is a queer and non-binary performer, producer and multidisciplinary artist. They recently interned for the Melbourne International Film Festival and is an alumni of both 16th Street Actors Studio and RMIT (BA Fine Arts, graduating with first class honours). Their background in performance led them to co-found Dirty Pennies and further integrate theatre making into their artistic practice.
Their work incorporates poetry, photography, performance and video, utilising storytelling techniques to illuminate the seemingly mundane and to shine a light on hidden corners of our experience. Their work plays with the diaristic and explores different vehicles for confession.
Their work has recently featured at the Melbourne Emerging Writer’s Festival (2020) and Voiceworks (2020).
Kevan Atkins
(He/Him)
Company member
Kevan is a composer, sound artist, musician, and sound engineer. His creative practice has developed from a life long fascination with sound and a passion for expression between mediums. This has led through a number of projects, including original scoring, concert works, installation, live theatre, and production management. His current interests are new instrumental and electronic music as well as improvisation.
Kevan carries this practice into his collaborations with a diverse range of performers and composers, drawing on his background to help them realise often unusual ideas that might be difficult or impossible with conventional, off-the-shelf means. His work within the music community also includes live concert recording, web development, building installations, teaching, curation, and organising events, including his work as production manager for the festival and academy Tilde New Music and Sound Art, in which he has been able to engage with many of his interests.
