About the Artists
Cheryn Frost and Emma Kew
Cheryn and Emma are an emerging creative partnership driven by conceptually bold, hyper-queer site-specific work. Their practice is rooted in experimental performance and shaped by responsiveness to unconventional spaces. As a duo they have credits across performance, drag, directing, writing, lighting design, curating and producing and have presented work for Performance Space, Dark Mofo, Biennale of Sydney, Bundanon, Bondi Festival, MCA and The Bearded Tit. They were the 2025 Steven Cummins Residency recipients for Performance Space’s Queer Development Program, where they developed their site-responsive practice by centering their work around a hearse. Cheryn and Emma are part of the 2026 Experimental Commissioning Consortium; a multi-year, multi-organisation national initiative that scaffolds independent artists to make ambitious work.
As individuals they are also accomplished artists – Cheryn was the recipient of the Moogahlin Performing Arts First Nations Scholarship for the Queer Development Program 2020/2021. Other credits include The Queer Woodchop (Liveworks), Brolga: A Queer Koori Wonderland (Performance Space), Volcanoes & Vulvas: The Exploration of My Two Greatest Loves (Redline Productions/ The Old Fitz) and Hydraulic Fucking (PACT).
Emma recently presented the sold-out return season of Notes On A Scandal: Folie A Deux (Qtopia Pride Festival) and consistently collaborates with award-winning production companies Studio Antics (Buff, Dykes on Bikes – An Origin Story, Single & Winona) and Stage Mum (Dough!, Truly Madly Britney & I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Cooking For). She most recently performed in Straight Panic for ATYP & Purple Tape Productions.
