Creative Australia Support Documentation
INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS MARCH 2026 - The Ends
DR. KAT HENRY
Dr. Kat Henry is an Australian theatre director, performance artist, and university lecturer in performance. She has directed plays at main stage theatre companies around Australia, has a PhD in long durational performance art, is a full-time lecturer at the Victorian College of Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, where she coordinates the Master of Theatre (Directing) course. From 2016-2018 Kat was Associate Artist at Queensland Theatre where she was on the National Artistic Team as well as directing numerous main stage plays, developments, readings, and other programs. She has also directed theatre at La Boite theatre Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Melbourne Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse, and Red Stitch Actors Theatre, among many others, and has been nominated for Green Room and Matilda Awards for outstanding direction of main stage plays. She has held 2 residencies at Berlin’s Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik ,and completed 2 original 240 hour-long durational performance artworks – Deliveranceand TimePod – among many other durational projects.
Creator, director, producer
IBRAHIM HALACOGLU
COHAN
Co-creator and Performer
Cohan (they/them), is a non-binary, Naarm-based theatre director and performance maker. They are interested in creating work that dissolves boundaries between audience and ensemble. They are currently in Edinburgh as the co-creator, with Kristen Smyth, and director of Cruel Brittania, a trans interpretation of Frankenstein, which will have a subsequent season at the Melbourne Arts Centre in late 2024. Cohan’s recent work EDGE brought together a short script, actors, a director and an audience to create theatre collaboratively. The show looked at immersive ways to view performance and generating new contexts live for a script. They moved from a background in film to directly explore the connection of bodies experiencing work in a room, their work exploring connectivity and inclusive accessibility. In 2021 they graduated from the VCA with a Master of Theatre (Directing) degree.
Co-creator and PerformerA theatre-maker from Istanbul, Ibrahim has been professionally involved in theatre since 2010 predominantly as a performer, as well as director, dramaturg, and playwright. A few years ago, he rediscovered theatre through meddah, an ancient form of Turkish/Ottoman storytelling. He developed a passion for revising traditional storytelling techniques to become a 21st century storyteller. His practice is quite eclectic but he currently focuses more on queering and contemporising the meddah. He is a graduate of the VCA Master of Theatre (Directing) course and is currently completing a PhD in Meddah performance on a full scholarship at the VCA.
BRETT HARRIS/SS. SEBASTIAN
Composer and sound designer
SS. Sebastian is the musical project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brett Harris. Beginning his career with folk-rock septet The Good Ship, he contributed to three studio albums and a string of successful national and international tours and festival performances between 2009 and 2015. In 2014 SS. SS has contributed to several artist projects including Sahara Beck’s Panacea, Ayleen O’Hanlon’s Blend and Spill, and Incarnadine by Silver Sircus. He performs and composes for theatre: The good Ship’s The Seven Seas (Brisbane Powerhouse, directed by Kat Henry), We May have to Choose (Brisbane Festival, created by Emma Hall), Jesus! Live! Here! Tonight! Spinning (Malthouse/Testing Grounds/Berlin’s ZK/U), and Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise by Morgan Rose for MTC/Neon Festival. SS. Sebastain was nominated for. Green Room Award in 2020 for his composition and sound design work on Emma Hall’s World Problems (45 Downstairs).
HAHNIE GOLDFINCH
Cohan - development at Temperance Hall
Cohan and Ibrahim - development at Temperance hall
Ibrahim- development at Temperance hall
A Melbourne-based, multi-disciplinary artist engaging in a wide-range of roles including set and costume design, prop, headpiece and costume fabrication, scenic art and live performance. Hahnie is a graduate of the VCA. Credits include: Your Name Means Dream, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Unwoman, (The Rabble), When the Rain Stops Falling (IRON LUNG Theatre Company), Away, (La Boite Theatre Company), Prize Fighter (La Boite), A Dollshouse (La Boite) Let Men Tremble (The Danger Ensemble).
Set and costume designer
Cohan and Ibrahim - development at Temperance hall
Ibrahim- development at Temperance hall
PerformerANNIE LAST
Annie is an actor, performer, voice artist and voice teacher. A graduate of VCA Acting, she has worked with … and was in the original, touring cast of The Unspoken Word is Joe by Zoey Dawson. She's the voice of the Zoos Victoria podcast Fauna, the Harbourside Arts Trail for Docklands Walking Tours, ABC Soundproof's 'My First', and an audiobook narrator. She's a theatre actor and maker.
WILLIAM MCBRIDE
Choreographic consultantWilliam is an artist and writer working in dance and performance across Naarm/Melbourne, notably as part of dance collective Alice Will Caroline. Since 2018, he has worked as a performer and choreographer at Temperance Hall across three productions. He is an active member of Melbourne’s independent dance communities and an advocate for independent artists.
