2025 RAWspace artists

Carrie McLean 
Residency dates | 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 dates | 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 dates | 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 dates: 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 

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.