Grumblism

Betty Grumble

Emma Maye Gibson (AKA Betty Grumble) is a Warrane/Sydney based storyteller and performance artist. Largely through the avatar/war mask/love letter/critter of Grumble she engages her body as a hopeful and medicinal site for catharsis and pleasure. She moves in a genre dance of ritual theatre, autobiography, cabaret, performance art and multi-media. She is a proud Ecosexual and believes in art as an action of her spirituality. 

She has her Masters in Fine Arts from UNSW and has presented work at The Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, Perth & Adelaide Fringes, The Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Griffin Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, The Bearded Tit, Red Rattler Theatre, OUTsider Festival (Austin, Texas), MoMA (NYC), Joe’s Pub (NYC), The Glory (London), LiveWorks, The Old Fitz, AsiaTOPA, Dark Mofo, Mona Foma, Sydney World Pride, Ted X, AGNSW, MCA, Berlin Fringe, The Ladies Lounge, The Forest Congress, All About Women, Rising Festival and beyond. 

She believes in the transformative power of flesh, social sculptures and live space, leads Grumble Boogie ‘Thank You Body’ aerobic psychic love energy dance classes and is currently engaged under the guidance of mentors Dr Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Burton and Victoria Spence. 

Major works include: Sex Clown Saves The World, Love & Anger, The Unshame Machine, GRUMBLISM, Grumble Boogie, Goddess – The Elizabeth Burton Story, Mini Beast Disco, A Composting Cabaret, 24HR Grumble Boogie, 6HR Grumble Boogie, Enemies of Grooviness Eat Shit, A Loved Woman & BODY SPELL. 

She is the 2025 Performance Space Fellow and one half (alongside Dr Charlotte Farrell) of performance collective Body of Work who are working on their new offering titled CALM DOWN and considers the late great Palestinian/Lebanese poet Candy Royalle to be one of her greatest guides. 

Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor

Basjia

Fetu Taku

Iya Ya Ya

Madam Lash

Meggy Sue

Midnight Feast

Phasmahammer (Justin Talplacido Shoulder)

Tommy Misa

Kelsey Lee

Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force Majeure); The Lewis Trilogy; Sex Magick; Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Comedy Of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre); Masterclass; The Memory of Water; A Letter For Molly (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NToP); Jali (Aya Productions, Griffin Theatre Company); Extinction of the Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company). Set & Costume Designer Somos (Sydney Dance Company). Set Designer: Nothing; A Practical Guide To Self Defence (NTofP). Costume Designer: Silence and Rapture (Sydney Dance Company & ACO), Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre). Co-production Designer & Lighting Designer: Destroy, She Said (Belvoir’s 25A). Set & Lighting Designer: An Ox Stand On My Tongue (Belvoir 25A). Lighting, Set & Costume: Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (ACO). Associate Lighting Designer Cut The Sky (Marrugeku). 

Daniel Herten

Daniel Herten (they/them) is a Sound Designer, Composer, Video Designer and Creative Technologist working across live performance and interactive media. Belvoir credits include: A Mirror; for Belvoir 25A, Furious Mattress composer. Daniel’s other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company, The Picture of Dorian Gray Australian sound associate (with Michael Cassel Group), Circle Mirror Transformation associate sound designer; for Griffin Theatre Co, The Lewis Trilogy, Sistren, Whitefella Yella Tree associate composer and sound designer; for Hayes Theatre Co, Murder For Two: Christmas Edition sound designer, Ride The Cyclone video and sound designer, Flat Earthers: The Musical sound designer and associate video designer and animator; for Ensemble Theatre, Fly Girl; for One Eyed Man Productions, Calamity Jane sound designer (with Hayes Theatre Co); for Essential Workers, Collapsible composer and sound designer and co-video designer; for Clockfire Theatre Co, Plenty of Fish in the Sea, for RISING Festival, Set Piece sound designer; for Tinderbox Productions, Black Box the Musical sound designer. Daniel won a 2025 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design and Composition of a Mainstage Production for Grief is the Thing with Feathers (with Freya Schack-Arnott) and was nominated in the same category for The Lewis Trilogy in 2024.  Daniel was the Australian sound associate for The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway (Michael Cassell Group) where the production received a total of six Tony Award® nominations, including Best Sound Design of a Play.

Madee Osborn

Madelaine is a theatremaker living and working on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. In 2015 she graduated from Charles Sturt University’s B. Communication: Theatre/Media course with Distinction and was the 2015 recipient of the Blair Milan Memorial Scholarship. 

Madelaine’s Stage Management credits:

For Belvoir: Assistant Stage Manager for Master and Margarita (dir. Eamon Flack 2023)

For Force Majeure: Gardener’s Apprentice (dir. Danielle Micich, 2025 Development) and Power (dir. Danielle Micich, 2024 Biennale)

For Ensemble Theatre: Assistant Stage Manager for The Queen’s Nanny by Melanie Tait (dir. Priscilla Jackman, 2024)

For Griffin Theatre Company: Jailbaby  by Suzie Miller (dir. Andrea James, 2023, 2024)

Ghosting the Party by Melissa Bubnic (dir. Andrea James 2022), Is There Something Wrong with that Lady? by Debra Oswald (dir. Lee Lewis 2021)

For Arts on Tour: Highway of Lost Hearts by Mary Anne Butler (dir. Adam Deusien 2024)

For Performing Lines: Sunshine Super Girl (dir. Andrea James, National Tour 2022)