OUR TEAM
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Danielle Micich | Artistic Director & CEO
Danielle Micich is a highly-awarded choreographer, director and performer of dance theatre. She makes new work for festivals, theatre productions, opera and film, alongside site-specific and community work. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts and relocating to Perth as a company dancer for 2 Dance Plus, she was appointed Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance Company. Her independent work extends nationally and internationally, working with companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, Night Train Productions, Steamworks Arts Productions, Dwhani Dance Company (India), Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Pinchgut Opera and Monkey Baa Theatre. Danielle’s ambition is to contribute to making new Australian work through storytelling that reaches audiences by exploring themes and issues relevant to contemporary culture; reflecting, embracing and challenging community attitudes and ideals.
Samm Ward | Marketing Associate
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Samm is a creative producer and a marketing generalist who has been in the creative arts industries for over 10 years. Having produced seven independent theatre productions with her company, Cross Pollinate Productions, co-founded by Michael Wood, Samm brings a multi-skilled approach to marketing which is rooted in storytelling and creative concepts.
Samm has worked with creative small businesses for over 15 years, helping them to make bold creative decisions, streamline processes, and communicate with their audience with vigour and a sense of humour.
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Amy Morcom | Executive Director
Amy is the Executive Director of Force Majeure, a national devising company that makes visceral interdisciplinary movement-based performance. Amy is passionate about fostering collaborations between diverse people, practices, and ideas to create impactful live experiences, and she brings her long practice of managing interdisciplinary collaborations to Force Majeure. She comes from the rich theatre-making community of Theatre/Media graduates (CSU Bathurst) and has worked in various contexts including devised performance, immersive theatre, social impact, commercial theatre, and large-scale outdoor events. Her experience includes STOMP in the West End and world tour, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, SKATE at the Cutaway and the Australian Event Awards. Amy has worked with organisations including Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir, Big hART, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Les Enfants Terribles (UK) and Glynis Henderson Productions (UK).
Zoë Hollyoak | Project Producer
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Zoë is a Director and Creative Producer who has worked across a range of organisations
including Belvoir, Performance Space, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Black Swan
State Theatre Company. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Zoë runs essential workers, a Sydney-based Performance Making Group.
SELECTED CREDITS | As Director: Smart (Martin-Lysicrates Prize), Pity (Belvoir x JMC), The Changelings (PACT), Shitty (Belvoir 25a) The Writer (NIDA), Collapsible (The Old Fitz), Antigonick (NIDA), Cotton Wool Kid (STCWA). As Assistant Director: Aphrodite (Sydney Chamber Opera x Carriageworks), It’s My Party (Belvoir x Meg Mac) I Watched Someone Die on TikTok (STCWA). As Producer: Amber (The Old Fitz), The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia (WAYTCo), Never Closer (Belvoir), Horses (Belvoir 25a), All His Beloved Children (KXT). Awards: NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant, The Glorias Fellowship, completing an attachment with The Wooster Group in NYC.