Davina Wright is a site-specific artist currently living and working in nipaluna/Hobart. She is interested in making site specific, nonlinear and immersive theatre that looks at loneliness, suburbia, violence and feminism. Recently she wrote and directed This is Grayson; a performance for audience 8+ with her collective Gold Satino. This is Grayson explored death, loneliness and family and was an immersive experience. This is Grayson received four Green Room Award Nominations in the Contemporary and Experimental Performance panel and received the awards for Innovation in Site Responsive Performance and Performance for Young Audiences. Davina is interested in creating thoughtful and reactive work for young people that leaves space for them to imagine a diverse range of futures for themselves.

In 1968 Meredith Rogers found a cure for her first broken heart in the theatre and she’s mostly been there ever since. She’s a feminist, performer, daughter, scholar, mother, director, grandmother, writer, friend, teacher, mentor, creative collaborator, doctor of philosophy, cheese eater and wine drinker.

In performance she looks for the exquisite ordinary – or the other way round.

Xavier O’Shannessy is a producer, performer and writer. He secured his first agent at 15 and proceeded to have a career as Australia’s least successful child actor. After falling into production work in 2011, Xavier found that he loved making art happen and thinking strategically to ensure that creatives have sufficient resources to realise their vision – and then making sure that people see it. He has produced award winning projects for Gold Satino, is associate producer at Bureau of Works and moonlights as a copywriter. Xavier is also meandering through an Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT and a Grad Dip of Business (Arts and Cultural Management) at Deakin University.

Claudia Nugent is a performer, theatre maker and writer based in Gulumoerrgin/Darwin where she resides with her girlfriend and two regal chickens. Claudia studied English, Italian and Gender, Sexuality and Diversity studies at La Trobe University and has been making theatre with Gold Satino since 2013. Claudia works in community services during the week and wiles away her weekends eating poems in dimly lit, well-ventilated corners of the room. She is interested in tending to spaces that are difficult to render, the urge to look twice, and that which remains always slightly out of reach.

Cazz is a Melbourne-based actor, writer and Gold Satino founding member, performing and devising with the team since its 2014 inception. She began pursuing acting while studying a Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University where she met Gold Satino Artistic Director Davina Wright who coerced her into performing in her Honours degree production. She then headed to New York to train in the Meisner Technique at Ward Studio and went on to join their graduate international acting company in 2011, performing in two US productions (where she hit it off Gold Satino performer and producer Xavier O’Shannessy). Since returning to Melbourne she has worked extensively in independent theatre with credits including The Hitmen, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest and Seminar. In 2021 Cazz began to pivot into screen work, most recently wrapping Darius Devas’ latest feature film Unravelling which she co-wrote with Devas and fellow actor Duncan Ragg. Cazz is an art lover and jumpsuit enthusiast who gives every croissant a fighting chance.

Glynn Urquhart is a multidisciplinary artist working with moving image, sound, and performance. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, his work often deals with the physical, the digital, and the spaces that exist between the two. He has had visual art shown at solo and group art shows locally around Naarm/Melbourne, as well as animated films screened at film festivals internationally. Projection work of his has also been shown at White Night, Gertrude St Projection Festival, and West Projections. When not making experimental art he can often be found playing old French waltzes on his piano accordion.

Shelley O’Meara is a Naarm/Melbourne based video artist, animator, and dancer. Their work combines live movement, projected animation and intricate video layering techniques to develop highly immersive works on and off the screen. Concerned with power, autonomy and the politicisation of bodies; movement is Shelley’s primary storytelling tool and in 2019 they began training in contemporary dance to broaden their understanding of dynamic movement and embodiment. Shelley is a core member of interdisciplinary collective Root Synthesis and moonlights as a performer with sight specific theatre group Gold Satino.

Winner of VCA’s “New Voice Award” for Of Safe Return (2016), recipient of the Signal Screen Commission for An End in Itself (2017) winner of the Montsalvat Film Prize for It’s Brutal Baby (2019) and previous participant in Dance House’s Emerging Choreographers Program (2021).

Opperating on Wurundjeri lands, Shelley recognises the sovereignty of Australia's first peoples.

Icon. She is the moment.