Creative Team
Scott Parker - Creator/Performer
Scott Parker has over a decade of professional experience as a theatre maker and performer. He is a founder of Matriark Theatre, where much of his practice has focused on original work for young audiences. Previous work has been staged and supported by Arts on Tour, Critical Stages Touring, Queensland Theatre, the City of Sydney, Inner West Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, and Waverley Council. Previous production highlights include Eerie Street Pod (Qld Theatre), and Urza and the Song in the Dark (Matriark Theatre) which received the Sydney Fringe Festival’s Director’s Award and enjoyed a successful tour to metro and regional venues in 2022. Other highlights include The Secret World(Australia Council, FRRR), The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Critical Stages Regional Residency), and UnVoiced Queer Youth Podcasting (Bondi Pavilion).
As a professional performing artist his work has included roles for leading producers including national touring with CDP, as well as Ninefold, PVI Collective, Mortal Fools (UK), Life and Limb (UK), and Tatwood Puppets (UK). He is a graduate of L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier (France).
Felicity Nicol - Creator/Director
Felicity is an award-winning Performance Director, Writer and Artistic Director from Sydney, Australia. After graduating from the NIDA Directors Course, Felicity has gone on to work with prominent artists from around the world, including Ontroerend Goed (Belgium), Punchdrunk & Gecko Physical Theatre (UK), Illutron (Denmark) and Mammalian Diving Reflex (Canada). Felicity also holds a particular interest in working with young people, and young queer people. This has led her to working with Australian Theatre for Young People, Spark Youth Theatre, Matriark Theatre, Shopfront Theatre, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and Milkcrate Theatre, and internationally with Mit Ohne Alles (Germany), The Torontonians (Canada) and Company3 (UK). She has created work for Dark Mofo, Sydney World Pride, Theater Neumarkt (Switzerland), 10 Nodi Festival (Italy), Cork Midsummer Festival (Éire), Ruhrtriennale (Germany), HAVEN Festival (Denmark) and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival, Austria).
Felicity is a proud queer, neurodiverse and disabled artist. She is a Mike Walsh Fellowship recipient, and won the 2018 Sandra Bates Directors Award at Ensemble Theatre. She holds a BA in Theatre & Performance from UNSW, a BArtTh from the College of Fine Arts UNSW, and a Postgraduate Diploma (Direction) from NIDA.
Robbi James - Producer
Robbi has been an executive producer, dramaturg, and arts leader since 2017 and is a founding member and Executive Creative Producer of Rogue Projects, where he has produced fifteen fully-staged works including Katie Pollock’s Rough Trade (Theatre Works, Peninsula Theatre), Miranda Middleton and Ziggy Resnick’s Pear-Shaped (Theatre Works, Monkey Baa), Blacklisted (Hayes Theatre), You’re Not Special (KXT, Australian Theatre Live), Ally Morgan’s Not Today (Theatre Works, Riverside Theatres, Seymour Centre), and the short film Refused Classification by Bradford Elmore (Cannes Short Film Festival, Queerscreen Film Festival). At Rogue Projects he has facilitated the creative development of a further five projects and was the producer of the Rogues on the Rocks residency program in partnership with Sydney Fringe and Placemaking NSW supporting over thirty artists to create new pieces across theatre, visual art, and music. Robbi holds a Masters in Arts Management at the Sydney Opera House with the Australian Institute of Music. He is currently on the executive team of Creative Plus Business, and is the producer of Salon, the NSW Performing Arts Market, for Arts on Tour.
Ben Brockam - Lighting Designer (Brand X)
Ben is an award winning Lighting Designer who works both nationally and internationally. Bens Lighting Design Credits Include work for Legs on the Wall, Shaun Parker & Company’s In the Zone and King; Splinter (Nominated for Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Lighting Design for a Main Stage Production), and Diving For Pearls, for Griffin Theatre Company; The Big Dry and Neville’s Island for Ensemble Theatre; Torch Song Trilogy, Detroit, and Tinder Box for Darlinghurst Theatre Company; :Lady Tabouli, Girl in the Machine, The Girl/ The Woman for NTofP; Metamorphoses (Winner of Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Lighting Design 2018), Angels In America part 1 and 2 for Apocalypse; Coram Boy (Nominated of Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Lighting Design 2019), Dresden, The Laden Table, Jatinga for Bakehouse Theatre Company; Good Omens the Musical, Herringbone (Nominated of Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Lighting Design 2019) for Squabbalogic; Symphonie Fantastique for Little Eggs Collective; and American Signs, A Fool in Love, and Constellations Sydney Theatre Company.
Lisa Walton - Associate Producer
Lisa is an award winning producer, arts manager, events manager, marketer and community arts engagement professional living and working on Dharawal Land and Gadigal Land. With abundance of experience delivering a wide range of productions, film works, events, exhibitions, art projects and workshop programs with a focus on diverse, collaborative, community driven work that is accessible, inclusive and speaks to Australian audiences.
She is currently the Festivals and Special Projects Producer for Waverley Council, delivering the vibrant annual Bondi Festival, along with other significant works. Also, working freelance with acclaimed theatre artists to help build their own independent theatre companies to present new works. She was previously the Community Engagement and Venue Manager for 107 Projects in Redfern. Prior to this, the was Creative Producer for Milk Crate Theatre, Production Office Manager for Films and Casting Temple in Fox Studios and Festival Executive for An Australia Film Initiative which presents that Australia Film Festival of India. In 2017 Lisa was awarded the Australia Prize for Future Leader in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Saint Clair - Lighting Designer
Saint Clair is a Sydney-based lighting designer, producer, writer, and graduate of NIDA. Her recent credits as LD include, Scab (ATYP); Not Now Not Ever: A Parliament of Women, Darwin’s Reptilia (25A), The Swell, and How to Defend Yourself (Old Fitz Theatre). At KXT her credits include The Wind in the Willows, The Marriage Agency, Lilac, and One Hour No Oil.
Previously she’s worked at Griffin Theatre as Lighting Associate, on Ghosting the Party, A is for Apple and Whitefella Yella Tree. Other credits as an associate include Shack (Monkey Baa), Destroy She Said (25A) and Ulster American (Seymour Theatre and Riverside Theatres). Last year, Saint Clair also worked on two major international festivals, Dark Mofo and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She currently works part time at Ensemble Theatre as Artistic Coordinator.
Kathryn Roberts-Parker - Sound Designer
Kathryn is a multi-award winning performance researcher, musician, composer and arts leader. She is a unique, interdisciplinary researcher with a professional practice in folk music and theatre. Kathryn has recently completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Newcastle University in the UK, researching A Performance History of Morris Dancing. This research has followed on from a PhD at the University of Sydney, where she researched the musical culture of traditional festivals in the British Isles and their representation in Shakespeare’s theatre.
Kathryn is a musician and theatre practitioner who composes and performs live music with Matriark Theatre, a company she co-founded in 2014. She is also the producer of Talon, a folk dance group in the UK. Kathryn is passionate about sustainability in arts practice, and volunteers on the boards of several organisations in Australia.
Introducing - In Polite Society
In Polite Society is a new collaboration between three highly experienced, award-winning theatre producers and storytellers - Felicity Nicol, Scott Parker, and Robbi James - who each identify as queer and neurodiverse. Hillsong Boy, their first project together, builds on their years of work creating original live experiences that explore local socio-political issues and history through a queer lens. Hillsong Boy, their first project together, is supported by an outstanding design and composition team that includes sound and music designer Kathryn Parker, and lighting designers Benjamin Brockman and Saint Clair.