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Liv Satchell

Liv works as a writer, theatre-maker, dramaturg and community organiser. Her original work includes Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship), co-directed with Julian Dibley-Hall (La Mama); NAYIKA: A Dancing Girl, co-created with Nithya Nagarajan (Belvoir); and The Grief Trilogy (La Mama). She is a three-time Green Room Award winner for Outstanding Writing for Independent Theatre and recipient of both the 2024 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and the inaugural New Writing Award, supported by Melbourne Theatre Company as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, for Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship). Her directing credits include Shoelace Chaser by Madelaine Nunn (Melbourne Theatre Company), Is Anyone Even Watching? by Olivia Muscat (Arts House), and SIRENS by Benjamin Nichol (fortyfivedownstairs). Her current project in development The Joy Factory was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Patrick White Playwrights Award.

Liv is committed to building platforms for independent artists. Her community work includes co-founding Small and Loud in 2016, a monthly performance program for new works in development that worked with over 300 artists across three years. Her most recent initiative, THINKING GROUND, centres the civic function of art in new project development, and has been presented in collaboration with Next Wave, Darebin Arts, and Theatre Works.

Julian Dibley-Hall

Julian works as a director, performer, dramaturg and producer. He was trained at the Victorian College of the Arts and his practice focuses primarily on developing and presenting new theatrical works.

In 2022 Julian directed The View From Up Here by Fiona Spitzkowsky for VIMH at Theatre Works. Previously, Julian was a Theatre Works Associate Artist (2018) where he assistant-directed and sound designed the critically-acclaimed season of Polygraph by Marie Bressand and Robert La Page (dir. Tanya Gerstle, Theatreworks), and in 2018 he also assistant-directed Broken by Mary Anne Butler (dir. Susie Dee, fortyfivedownstairs).  Julian was the Performance Director of Underground Cinema from 2013-2015, directing 14 large-scale immersive theatre events in non-traditional venues across Melbourne and Sydney.

Julian has been making theatre since 1997 and is a proud member of Equity.

Jules and Liv are always up for a conversation – just shoot them an email at thevoiceinmyhands@gmail.com.