DIRECTOR

Alyson is a multi-award winning artist who has worked around the world as a performer, theatre maker and community artist with a particular focus on cultural development and social change. As a writer, mentor and director, Alyson has collaborated with young people from a range of backgrounds to create new works. In recent years, this includes ‘New Territory’ (Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, 2023) ‘Sharing Stories, Sharing Place,’ (Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, 2021), ‘Endangered Species,’ (Flying Fruit Fly Circus, 2020) ‘Folk Song’ (Outback Theatre for Young People, 2018). Alongside this, Alyson has spent 7 years as a Teaching Artist for Sydney Theatre Company, establishing their School Drama program in Juvenile Justice Centres, is the Community Producer for Outback Theatre for Young People and a Creative Producer at Corrugated Iron Youth Arts and recently completed her MA Cultural Leadership at NIDA.

YOUNG ARTISTS

An exceptional group of young artists who have a long history with Corrugated Iron. Many are key members of Corrugated Iron's audition based ensemble Company C.

DRAMATURG AND MENTOR

Mary Anne Butler’s theatre credits include Broken, Wittenoom, Highway of Lost Hearts, Cusp, The Sound of Waiting, Alice in Wonderland (adaptation), One More Hour and Half Way There.

Her playwriting awards include the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama, the inaugural Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, and an AWGIE.

Her works have twice been awarded the NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year: for Broken in 2018, and for Highway of Lost Hearts in 2016. Nominations include the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards [for Broken in 2016 and for The Sound of Waiting in 2018], a stage AWGIE Award (for Broken) and the Griffin Theatre Award. Highway of Lost Hearts is on the NSW, South Australian and Northern Territory HSC Drama Curricula.

MUSIC

Kuya James (James Mangohig) is an ARIA Award-winning producer and ARIA-nominated artist living on Larrakia Land in Darwin, NT. As a musical director, Kuya James led Country to Couture (2022–2024) and the Indigenous Fashion Projects runway at Australian Fashion Week (2023/2024), featuring Jessica Mauboy and Melanie Mununggurr. He was also the musical director for the NATSIAAs in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, his second theatre show, Hymns for the Witching Hour, won Best Performance at the NT Performance Awards, where he was also honoured as the 2023 Outstanding Creative. In 2024, he won another category at the NT Song Awards, marking his 8th award over the years for his songwriting abilities. Additionally, the soundtrack for Diets and Deities, created with producer Tutup Mulut, won ‘Excellence in Music’ at the Australian Game Developer Awards. 

MUSIC CONSULTANT

Caiti Baker is a singer, songwriter, performer, dancer, producer, vocal engineer, graphic designer, editor, project manager, mentor, absorber of entertainment and co-founder of sietta creative from Darwin, Northern Territory.

A multifaceted genre defying independent artist, and collaborator, Caiti Baker first joined the music scene as one half of electro-soul duo Sietta (with James Mangohig), since working with the likes of Emily Wurramara, and Taiwanese Paiwan Indigenous singing group The Ancient Ballads Troupe, and many more.

Over the last few years, Caiti has delved head first into vocal engineering, producing an ARIA nominated multi-artist lullaby album The Moon, the Mouse & the Frog: Lullabies From Northern Australia for ABC, alongside her own releases, and winning Folk Category for NT Music Song of the Year Awards with her unreleased music. Her music has taken her across Australia and internationally, having performed alongside A.B. Original, Briggs, the Ministry of Sound, Jessica Mauboy, George Benson, Tim Minchin and more.