A WELL-KNOWN STRANGER

Mehhma Malhi

Mehhma Malhi is an up-and-coming director. She has experience in philosophy, bioethics, and journalism and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Politics from New York University and a Master of Science in Bioethics from Columbia University.  

At NIDA she held the Animal Logic Entertainment scholarship. Her directorial work includes Ephemera By Anchuli Felicia King ‘23, Poof! By Lynn Nottage (Actors Centre Australia and NIDA ‘23), Dragonfly – Peach Fur Music Video (Triple J ‘24),  ALL BOYS by Xavier Hazard (KXT Storytellers Festival), The Mountain Remembers by Daley Rangi (Lysicrates Prize ‘24), Kufa the Hero by James Elazzi (Martin Lysicrates ‘24), ALL BOYS (KXT -Full Season ‘24), Amber by Nikita Waldron (Old Fitz ‘25), Fitz Happens by Melanie Tait, Mary Rachel Brown, Louis Nowra, Kate Mulvany, and Nicholas Brown (Old Fitz ‘25) and she acted as assistant director for Jessica Arthur in Kindness by Matthew Whittet.  

ALL BOYS (KXT – full season 2024) was nominated for best ensemble at the STA awards, and Mehhma won for best emerging director at the 2025 KXT awards. Dragonfly won Best Music Video in the Prague Music Awards, Best Director in the LA Music Awards, and was officially selected in the 2024 London Music Video Festival.

In between directing, Mehhma undertakes producing, note-taking, director’s attachments, and production roles for film and theatre companies across Sydney.

She is currently in development for two tv shows  with Screen Australia and is a director’s attach on a STAN documentary. Further she is Belvoir St Theatre’s Andrew Cameron Fellow. 

Mehhma is passionate about sharing everyday stories that often go unheard, inspiring empathy through the narratives she presents, and bringing ethical dilemmas to the forefront. Mehhma hopes her work will draw together all elements of community and excite audiences who otherwise would not engage with the theatre.

Hailley Hunt

Hailley is a Sydney based Set and Costume Designer, her credits as Set and Costume Designer include: Griffin Theatre Company Savior, Lacuna. Belvoir 25A: Aurat Raj, Forgetting Tim Minchin, Feminazi. Old Fitz Theatre: Amber, sitting, screaming, Anomalies. PACT: The Changelings. ATYP: Scab. Eternity Playhouse: Christmas Unwrapped: A Very Naughty Variety Show. As Set Designer: Hayes Theatre: Phar Lap: The Electro Swing Musical, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Belvoir 25A: Shitty. As Associate Costume Designer: Belvoir St Theatre: Orlando. Women with Pockets: Middle Raged As Associate Set Designer: Belvoir St Theatre: Meg Mac: It’s My Party. Hayes Theatre: The Hello Girls. As Associate Production Designer: Detention. As Assistant Designer: Griffin Theatre Company: Jailbaby. Sydney Theatre Company: The Normal Heart. Awards: 2025 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Costume Design of a Mainstage Production (Orlando) with Ella Butler.

Izzy Morrissey

Madeleine Picard

Madeleine is a sound designer & composer working on Gadigal land. Combining her backgrounds in technical theatre and music, she is interested in storytelling through sound and in being part of the creation of new Australian theatrical works. Recent select credits include: The Weekend (Belvoir); Life is a Dream, The Edit, Hot Tub, Shitty (Belvoir 25A); Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); Dial M for Murder, Emerald City (Ensemble); Amber, All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz); Scab (ATYP). She has also recently worked as associate sound designer and/or realiser for a number of productions including The Wrong Gods, Song of First Desire (Belvoir); The Talented Mr Ripley, Julia (Sydney Theatre Company); Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin); and Ride the Cyclone (Hayes). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA.

Jasmine Power

Jasmine is an emerging stage and event manager working on Gadigal land. A recent graduate of NIDA, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Technical Theatre and Stage Management.

Recent credits include Assistant Stage Manager on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Belvoir St Theatre), Stage Manager on Sonder and Alfred Kouris and Harry Stacey Bake a Cake (Old Fitz), Assistant Event Coordinator for WAKE (Sydney Festival in partnership with THISISPOPBABY), and Stage Manager on Port (KXT).

Nicholas Warrand