Royce Warden – ceramicist and visual artist – graduated from NMIT in 1999. Warden has fulfilled projects with marginalized youth with Victoria University, guiding youth and expanding their creativity through hands-on clay work and design. More recently Warden has been working with the Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC) tutoring adults with intellectual disabilities in ceramics and visual art. It was through his work at FCAC that Warden came in contact with James Hullick and was invited to work on the JOLT CREATIVES TEAM as an artist working on Hullick’s designs for Music Theatre projects such as FCAC and JOLT’s THE NIS.

Outside of his work with JOLT Warden’s arts practice is currently focused on applying porcelain processes to the remains of wildlife. In 2008 Warden showed this work at Brunswick Arts.

Originally trained in electro-acoustic composition, Katharine Neil has been developing games since 1998 as a professional game designer, sound designer, and programmer. She has also worked outside the industry creating game-based artwork and fostering game development within the Australian arts community. Katharine was the Creative Director of the Escape From Woomera game project in 2003, and in 2004 with Marcus Westbury she co-founded Free Play - Australia's annual independent game developers conference. Katharine's abstract game based work includes a recreation of Perotin's Viderunt Omnes for XBOX game console, which she has used in performances in Australia and France.

Katharine has been working with JOLT for THE NIS project programming interactive environments.

Dunstan is one of the shining lights of the Australian physical theatre scene. He is currently a Director with Dislocate, a company started by Dunstan and his colleagues in 1998 which is devoted to physical theatre projects Dunstan has also been a board member with Circus Oz.

Dunstan was trained in physical theatre through Circus Oz, Rock’n’Roll Circus and the Victorian Gymnastics Team. He also received dance training through Dance Factory and M.O.D.S. and clown training with Phillipe Gaulliere.

Dunstan has worked with many of Australia’s elite performance organizations as physical performer including: Circus Oz, Rock’n’Roll Circus, Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Hothouse Theatre, Dislocate – Artistic Director and Performer, Horned Moon Productions, QPAT, Chamber Made Opera, Snuff Puppets, MDPE, The Australian Shakespeare Company and Legs on the wall. He has also performed in some of Australia’s most significant festivals and large-scale events including: the Sydney Olympic Games Festival, The Sydney Paralympics Closing Ceremony, the AFL Grandfinal, The Big Day Out to name a few.

Dunstan will be working with JOLT on THE NIS as an assistant director.

www.dislocate.com.au

Richie Allen is a 37-year-old artist and engineer who's playful approach to interactive works cleverly masks his subconsciously political agenda. Since 2000 “Richie's Electric Playground” has taken a curiously harmonious orchestra of novel electronic musical instruments (including the “Screatures” musical puppets) on a solar powered jamming roadshow around the world. Other interactive sculptures include the jokingly antagonistic “Cro-NullaNulla Man 1”, “The Great Wall” musical toy display for Big Day Out 2006, “War On” a physical video game interface presented at Electrofringe and SOOB 2004, “Chi Chi Fibonacci's” electric hermaphrodite suit, and the “Hypnonoodle” audio visual instrument for which he won the I-Give award for “Best Sound Toy” in 2004. Key collaborators include Rene Wooler, Matt Petoe, the JamExperimentDanceInteract crew, composer James Hullick, and Mekanarky Studios. Richie has worked on several JOLT productions including: CRANKY ROBOTICS and THE NIS.