About the Artists
Elizabeth Hay
Elizabeth Hay graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre and lives and works as an actor on Kaurna land. Theatre credits include A Concise Compendium of Wonder and Emil and the Detectives for Slingsby, The Dictionary of Lost Words, Girl From The North Country, Hibernation, The Gods of Strangers, Red Cross Letters, Volpone and Jesikah for the State Theatre Company South Australia, Creation, Creation, Baba Yaga, Grug and Grug and the Rainbow for Windmill Production Company, Yo Diddle Diddle and The Lighthouse for Patch Theatre Company, and The Garden for Theatre Republic. Elizabeth has worked on many locally made television productions, commercials and films, including Beep and Mort (Windmill Production Company/ABC), Danger 5 (Dinosaur Production/SBS), and A Sunburnt Christmas (STAN). She is the voice of Olli in Sun Runners, a collaboration between Audioplay and Windmill Productions. Elizabeth made her directing debut in the inaugural season of RUMPUS in 2019 with Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and continues to develop as a director through initiatives such as Future:Present by Theatre Republic, and other developments of new local work. She was a part of transumer, by pvi collective, and Anthony Nocera’s My Hair is Thinning for Adhocracy at Vitalstatistix.
Teddy Dunn
Teddy Dunn is a theatre maker, performer, writer and dramaturg based in Melbourne. His practice sits between contemporary performance, theatre, research and community participation, creating work that draws equally from lived experience and interdisciplinary inquiry. He is particularly interested in ritual, memory, grief, gender and the stories communities tell in order to live alongside difficult things. As a performer, Teddy has worked with State Theatre Company South Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Patch Theatre, Vitalstatistix and Tasmanian Theatre Company. His performance in Joan received the Tasmanian Theatre Award for Best Actor, and he most recently appeared as Jack Worthing in State Theatre Company South Australia’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Alongside his performance work, Teddy has directed, dramaturged and developed new Australian work for companies and festivals including State Theatre Company South Australia, Awesome Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Asia TOPA and Vitalstatistix. He is a former Artistic Director of ActNow Theatre, where he led community-engaged programs and developed new work with artists and queer young people. He has maintained a long creative relationship with Vitalstatistix as an artist, assistant director, dramaturg, facilitator and collaborator. His writing and vocal composition have been presented through Queerstories, Conversations with Men and Adelaide Writers’ Week.
Ashton Malcolm
Ashton Malcolm is a multi-disciplinary performance artist based on Kaurna Country. She works across a range of different forms and practices, including performance art; experimental self-devised live performance, which is often site-specific and rooted in improvised text and physical gesture; and text-based mainstage theatre.
As a devisor and performer, Ashton worked for many years in an unofficial collective with theatremaker and performer, Josephine Fitzgerald, and theatre designer, performer and installation artist, Meg Wilson. While their body of work varied largely in theme and form, it always shared a common thread of playfulness, subversion and a deep grounding in contemporary feminism. The trio took great pleasure in looking the audience in the eye and inviting them to linger in the unexpected and the uncomfortable. Most notably, they worked together on Meg Wilson’s sports related endurance works: You Will Only Ever Be Any Good If You Can Run The Marathon (CACSA, 2015), Team Trampoline (FELTspace, 2016) and SQUASH! First developed as part of Vitalstatistix’s Adhocracy festival in 2016, SQUASH! premiered as part of FOLA (2018), and went on to win a Green Room Award for Innovation in Durational Performance. As a performer, Ashton has worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Restless Dance Theatre, the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Windmill Theatre, Patch Theatre, and Vitalstatistix Theatre Company. In 2025, she made her directorial debut with a sold out season of Miriam Battye’s Scenes with Girls, which was presented by Deus ex Femina as part of STCSA’s Stateside program. Ashton recently performed with Ramsay Award-winning artist Ida Sophia in Patience and Penitentia, a 40 day durational performance work at the Samstag Gallery. Later this year she will appear in experimental short film, Stitches, written and directed by Zanny Edhouse.
