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2025 RAWspace artists
2025 RAWspace artists
Carrie McLean
Residency date | June 2025
Project: The Cleaner
When her son, Jake, kills his friend, Sonya goes against all her values as a compassionate trauma cleaner to protect him and clean up the mess. The Cleaner will be an on-edge mystery thriller, a world where dirty reality is infused with magical realism, told through complex, darkly humorous characters. The play speaks to disturbing contemporary themes of displacement, disconnection and extremist thinking. While the incel community is often viewed through a black-and-white lens, The Cleaner fosters empathy for a young man grappling with his identity, and a mother confronting her inability to shield him from radicalised thinking. The Cleaner explores what happens when a mother’s instinct to protect her children, no matter what, hurts other people and asks the impossible question “would you sacrifice all your principles to save your child?”
Creatives
Writer | Carrie McLean
Director | Julie Waddington
Performers | Jane Johnson, Nelson Clay & Emma Skalicky
Sound Artist | Jude Elliot
Laura Sheedy
Residency date | June 2025
Project: Drawing On Maps
Drawing On Maps is a new solo performance work of abstracted memoir. Built from snippets of incomplete stories, visual imagery, physical movement and side-tracks, it pokes at the alternative narratives we construct around photographs — what we tell, what we leave out, and how it all folds into how we see ourselves. A lecture about the Aurora Australis drifts in and out.
Creatives
Lead artist, writer & performer | Laura Sheedy
Artistic mentor; movement & dramaturg | Rinske Ginsberg
Video & projection designer | Alex Moss
Sally Richardson
Residency date | June 2025
Project: Trophy
Trophy is about women and sport, and women as sport. Following the award-winning success of their first co-creation JULIA, Natalie Allen and Sally Richardson again collaborate to create a new solo performance that will be a distinctive, eloquent, fierce, and moving exploration of courage, strength, determination, dedication, and endurance.
In conversation and through the sharing of stories, the creative team plan to connect with and generate a responsive work utilising an exciting dance theatre language and form to create an audience experience that offers fresh perspectives on women’s’ experience on and off the field, in public and private realms.
I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. – Serena Williams
Creatives
Co- creator/performer | Natalie Allen
Co-creator/director | Sally Richardson
Producer (WA) | Libby Klysz
Xris Reardon
Residency date: June 2025
Project: Short Attack
What do we see when we look at someone? Is there an observer and observed? Who turns a body into a mirror? A spectacle? Who gets to tell the tale? This is a show about the monstrous - the projections we cast in the name of beauty, normalcy, and power. A performance with a distinctly European sensibility that rolls, stops, and drops, touching on the legacy of Snow White. It confronts how we are taught to look, and how we choose to look away. Listen to a short attack - weighted by the gaze of histories, violence, eugenics, and erasures. Told with an aliveness that is unstoppable. Unsettle yourself. Abandon endings.
Creatives
Performer / Co-Dramaturg | Fiona Strahan
Writer / Director / Lead Dramaturg | Xris Reardon
Movement Director / Chorus Director / Associate Dramaturg | Myriam Bourez
Intimacy Coordinator / Film Collaborator | Alison Stanton Cook
Composer / Sound Designer | Gianni Posadas-Sen
2025 Mentors
Julian Larnach is a Sydney-based playwright, dramaturg and screenwriter.
Julian’s theatrical adaptation of Favel Parrett’s novel Past the Shallows, premiered in Sydney and Hobart in a co-production with Archipelago Productions and ATYP in 2022. The play won six Tasmanian Theatre Awards including Best Production and Best New Writing, was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Writing for Young Audiences and is touring nationally in 2024. It was developed into a feature film directed by Ben Winspear and starring Marta Dusseldorp premiering at Ten Days on the Island Festival to critical acclaim. His new play How to Vote, commissioned by Canberra Youth Theatre, premiered at the Playhouse at Canberra Theatre Centre in 2022 and was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Writing Community and Young People.
Leisa Prowd is a dancer and performance artist based in Melbourne. Her interests lie in pedestrian movement, butoh, and contact improvisation.
She has danced with companies in Australia and Europe, performing in several award-winning productions.
In 2022, Leisa was the recipient of the ArtsHouse Warehouse Residency and through this. created and performed her solo, I Am (Not) This Body.
In 2024, Leisa was Artist in Residence at the Holland Dance Festival, choreographing the original work Do Birds Get Jetlag, performed by 10 dancers with and without disability.
Leisa teaches movement workshops to encourage movers to explore their unique dance expression.
Dr. Margi Brown Ash is a passionate educator, theatre-maker, therapist, researcher, facilitator, and mentor with over 40 years of diverse experience in the arts and education. Based in Brisbane, she has a rich history of collaborating with various institutions, including the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland, QACI, Curtin University, and the Sydney Theatre Company.
With her extensive background and innovative approaches, Dr. Margi Brown Ash aims to inspire and empower the next generation of artists.
Paige Rattray was the Director, New Work and Artistic Development for the Sydney Theatre Company from 2022 to 2024, an Associate Director from 2018 to 2022 and was chosen as the Sydney Theatre Company’s Richard Wherrett Fellow for a consecutive two years (2015, 2016). Paige was previously the Associate Artistic Director at Queensland Theatre. She was the co-founder of award-winning, independent theatre company ARTHUR, and a graduate of NIDA. Paige is a much-lorded dramaturg and director of new work having premiered landmark new Australian plays.
RAWspace 2025 is supported by RAWspace Giving Circle members, Belinda Kendall-White (founding patron), Jane Coatman, David and Michelle Warren, the City of Hobart, Blue Cow Theatre and Performing Lines TAS.
