About the Artists

Maeve Mhairi MacGregor (they/them)
Director/Instigator
Maeve is a Kaurna Yerta based, Lutruwita born theatre artist and creative and cultural consultant. The former Artistic Director of Loud Mouth Theatre Co. and the Tasmanian Theatre Company, they hold a Masters of Cultural Leadership and a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting) both from NIDA. Maeve has worked extensively in a variety of roles across producing, teaching, marketing, development, operations, production and office management in theatre, circus, events, festivals, corporate arts, and local government. Maeve threatened Leo Schofield (OAM) with a bogan flashmob once, and launched a community campaign to highlight the achievements of young Lutruwitian/Tasmanian artists after Schofield referred to the youth population of the island as “dregs, bogans (and) third generation morons”. As a theatre artist Maeve has received Tasmanian Theatre Awards for Best Performance: Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph (dir. Ben Winspear for the Tasmanian Theatre Company) and as a director for Best Production: SHIT by Patricia Cornelius (for Loud Mouth Theatre Co.). Maeve and Adie will be joined for a day by two engineering artists who are yet to confirm their participation. Please don’t hesitate to contact Maeve for further information regarding these artists – they have provided in principle spoken consent but not written, and as such we thought it best not to include detail at this stage. 

Adie Delaney (she/her)
Performer/Instigator
Adie Delaney Lover of heights, catalyst of parental panic, Adie left home at 18 to travel the world as a circus artist. Alongside her performing career, Adie constantly nurtured a passion for teaching and developed her pedagogical style by taking inspiration from many different physical disciplines, including her more recent work in trauma, social services and allied health. Adie’s professional career began in traditional circus before evolving through cabaret, physical theatre and contemporary circus to a more expansive creative practice that is defined by physical and vocal storytelling. In 2015 Adie returned to Lutruwita/Tasmania where she opened a circus school, which ran successfully for a decade. During this time she broadened her professional skills by working as a trauma informed educator for a sexual assault support service and to this day educates a range of people from young children to workplace employees in the prevention of sexual harm. Through this work and experience, Adie has a deep understanding of community and the socioecological model of health, and in 2020, Adie was invited to develop a TED talk: An Aerialist on listening to your body’s signals. Adie has not ruled out any possibilities of what she might do when she grows up.