Helen Strube is a director, actor, arts educator and advocate. She co-founded KITE Theatre, has worked as an actor for La Boite Theatre (War Women, Medea and Threepenny Opera), in film and on radio for the ABC. Helen has directed numerous productions, studying acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute (affiliated NYU - New York) and directing with the British Theatre Association (London). She has worked with many devising teams in the creation of new work, including Loaded Stories, The Doll, Blacked-Up (QTC Wesley Enoch), Newton’s Law, Blow’im (Eva Johnson) and Children of the Black Skirt (QAC Angela Betzien) and was assistant director on The Matilda Women (Sue Rider/La Boite). Helen is the lead author of Dramatexts, which has been used extensively in schools and universities. She holds a Master of Arts (Research-Acting in the Australian Context - A case Study of Lindy Davies with participants Cate Blanchett, Angie Milliken and Lucy Bell), a Graduate Diploma in Communication Practice (Film & Media). Helen is currently directing Children of the Black Skirt for The Curator’s Theatre.

Lisa Hickey Lisa has worked extensively in Theatre in Brisbane, acting in many La Boite productions including The Enemy Within, The Perfectionist, No Exit, The Threepenny Opera, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Plastik, Angry Housewives, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Maids, Popular Front and War Women; in Toadshow’s Conway Christ and The Hound of Music; and Fractal’s Female Parts, The Yellow Wallpaper and The Untouchable Julie. Moving to Melbourne in the mid-90s, Lisa appeared in Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Backberner, Stingers, educational and corporate videos and ABC Radio Drama. After returning to Brisbane, she worked in That Production Company’s When the Rain Stops Falling, The Curators’ Uncle Vanya, Ghosts and The Revolutionists. Recently, she was in an Audible sci-fi drama podcast, Beyond Strangelands, and the feature film Swimming For Gold. Lisa has also done considerable voice-over work and several TV and internet ads. Her professional directing debut, Plucked, won Audience Award Winner at the 2021 Anywhere Festival.

Shadows of Love is Sherri’s third show with The Curators’ Theatre Company. Her other credits with the company include Regan in King Lear Monster Show and Sonia in Uncle Vanya. She has also appeared in Animal Farm for Crossroad Arts Theatre at the Powerhouse, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet for the Shakespeare Festival, and MJ in Mania at the Brisbane Arts Festival. Her film credits include the short film, Edge, Smile the Series, and Practise Patience in the pilot for the TV series. With a background in dance and movement, Sherri has consulted on a number of theatre and film projects with credits including Hamlet for HeartBeast Theatre Company, and Project Eden Vol. 1 with Mad Anth'm Productions. She continues to train in the stage fight sector from unarmed to swordplay.

Bronwyn is an actor, director and member of The Curators Theatre’ Management Committee. Her acting credits include Children of the Black Skirt creative development in 2022, Anywhere Festival’s 2021 Audience Award winner, Plucked; QSE 2021 Apprenticeship: Dare To Share; Short and Sweet Festival 2014 Best Actor, Best Production, Best Comedy Awards Nuns Gone Wild, Mixed Doubles; Chicago; Cloud 9; Stairway to Happiness- A One Woman Play. She has appeared in the films Op Shop; Dallas Boy, Jackie McKimmie's AFI Award Winning film, Stations. From her early career she worked with QTC TIE team and main house production of The Front Page; Missouri Rep Theatre and various independent theatres in Brisbane, Sydney and Kansas City. Bronwyn has directed Lightning Bolt Production's Hello! Gaz Rhumbo 2020, A Clockwork Orange, Minefields and Mini Skirts and Black Comedy. Her training includes Creative Arts - Theatre Major, DDIAE (now USQ) and she has a Post Graduate Diploma in Education, Secondary, QUT.

Julie is a playwright, actor and producer with recent credits including Anywhere Festival’s 2021 Audience Award winner, Plucked which she wrote, performed in and produced. She also appeared in web series Smile: The Series, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the Halo International Film Festival (HIFF) and which received ten Best Web Series Awards from multiple international festivals. Short films in which she acted include True N.O.R.T.H, The Wedding Day, Pirates Anonymous, and A Quiet Street in Pallarenda. Theatre work also includes The Brisbane Arts Theatre’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Julie also co-produced the podcast series Savannah to Suburbia – South Sudanese Australian Stories. Julie studied at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Eleonora studied Acting and Education at Q.U.T. and a Master of Professional Performance in the Performing Arts from USC. She has performed, trained and directed with many local and some international theatre companies in various disciplines including physical theatre, Impulse Response Training, Practical Aesthetic, Meisner Technique and Butoh. Companies include Access Arts, Brisbane Arts Theatre, D.I.V.E Theatre Collective, heartBeast Theatre, InsideOutside Theatre Co, Minola Theatre, OzFrank Theatre, Vangeline Theatre, and Zen Zen Zo. Stage performances include Monster’s Mother at the Spring Reservoir and Laramie Project with Ad Astra. In 2019, Eleonora visited New York to examine the fundamental principles of making theatre through Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints with SITI. She is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of Danteatro, Italian Theatre Co. She facilitated and directed the Access Arts Theatre ensemble for over seven years and directed the show CHANGE for The Anywhere Festival.

Vivien trained at the Queensland Actor’s Playhouse, and since then has performed in various productions around Brisbane, such as Holding Hands in Public, Balloonacy (both Front Row Theatre), Metamorphosis (The Basics Project) and Tuckshop the Musical (BirlyGits Productions). She showcased her self-devised pieces You Start Here (2013) and Living (2016) at the Queensland Short + Sweet Festival. In 2021, she was proud to play the role of Destiny in the of the proof-of-concept film Good Times & That’s Ok (Amanda Kaye), and also to co-produce and perform in Plucked (WhittleBerry Productions) for the 2020 Anywhere Festival, which will be touring regionally in 2023. Vivien has done six productions with Growl Theatre: Gaslight, The Children’s Hour, My Pet Human, Cosi, Rumors and Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley. Her current goal is to inspire and empower herself and others through acting, to tell important stories and to use the Arts as a catalyst for positive change.

Since completing her studies at Queensland Performing Arts Conservatory in 2017, Caroline Sparrow has starred in, written, directed and produced multiple short films, corporates and theatre productions. Her first love is the thrill of live theatre and most recently, Caroline played Debbie in The X Collective’s adaption of Leaves of Glass by Philip Ridley. Whilst her true passion lies in the exploration of authentic acting and storytelling- in her spare time Caroline is a teacher, TV producer and a founding partner of Sparrowland Productions- an organisation dedicated to giving a voice to independent filmmakers and creatives. She is also the festival director for the Short + Sweet Festival QLD 2022. Caroline is excited to work with The Curator’s and to explore the depths of suffering for love within a suffocating patriarchal landscape.

James has worked as an actor, a director, a producer and an acting coach. As an actor, some highlights include Verlaine in Total Eclipse, Barney in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Dave No-Name in Alive at Williamstown Pier, all at La Boîte. Other favourites include The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Geoffrey Rush; Mad Hercules and Love’s Labours Lost, all for QTC. As a director, the Sam Shepard plays Tooth of Crime and Fool for Love are his standout favourites. He has produced over a dozen plays including Quartet by Heiner Muller, Waiting For Godot, directed by Sean Mee and Lunch with Vincent River by Steven Berkoff and Philip Ridley. This is his first play with The Curators’ Theatre.

Chelsea is known for her vibrant personality, stage presence, and professionalism, having just completed a Bachelor of Musical Theatre at the Queensland Conservatorium under Professor Paul Sabey. Excelling as a triple threat her Conservatorium credits include Lorraine Fleming in 42nd Street, Julia in The Wedding Singer, Cha Cha Understudy/Swing/Ensemble in Grease at QPAC and Gatch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Other credits include Lead Vocalist/Dancer in Hooray for Hollywood, Extra in Upright directed by Matthew Saville & Tim Minchin, Scream Queen in Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, Onstage Choir in Chess at QPAC, and Fiona in Queensland Theatres’ workshop development of Round the Twist with Simon Phillips and Paul Hodge.