Jane Bodie is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

Jane is currently under commission by The National Theatre, UK (Connections 2025) for her new play The Company of Trees. In 2023 Jane’s work as writer of the musical Driftwood was nominated for the Green Room Award for New Australian Music Theatre Writing. She was Shortlisted for the 2020 Paines Plough Women’s Prize for Playwriting for her play Savage. She also won the 2019 Lysicrates Prize for her new play Tell Me You Love Me. Her play Water opened at Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth in 2019 and was well reviewed and received by audiences. In 2018 her new play Lamb with songs by Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors) opened at the Red Stitch Theatre and completed a regional tour in 2021. She is also writing a Screen Australia funded feature adaptation of her play This Year’s Ashes and developing her own TV show. Jane was Head of Playwriting at NIDA from 2010 – 2013.

Her plays include; Water, Savage, This Years Ashes, Music (Griffin Theatre) Fourplay (Trades Hall, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Festival), Hilt (Playbox, Theatre Royal Bath, Edinburgh Festival, starring Susie Porter), Ride (Beckett Theatre, Belvoir Street, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Festival, Rattlestick Theatre NY starring Josh Lucas and Summer Phoenix, and Fox Theatricals Reading starring Julianna Margulies), Through, Still (The Store Room – Winner, Green Room Award for Outstanding Writing), A Single Act (Hampstead Theatre London, Melbourne Theatre Company and was nominated for the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and won the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award). Other more recent plays include Home By Now, Out Of Me (Soho Theatre, London), and Hallelujah (Theatre 503 London) Hinterland (NIDA).  Jane has directed many of the above productions.

Jane has also written extensively for television, radio and film. Her television credits include Crash/Burn, The Secret Life of Us in Australia, and No Angels, Echo Beach, Nearly Famous and Moving Wallpaper in the UK. The feature film, Dick Kerr’s Ladies is currently in development with Altered Image Productions (UK). Her short film Alice directed by Garth Davis was the Winner of Best Film in the anthology series POV and it was selected for screening at Cannes Film Festival. Jane has written three radio dramas for ABC Radio National and one for the BBC’s Radio Four.

Helen Hebert is a stage and production designer based in London. She trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she graduated with a first class degree in 2017.

Her work spans the mediums of theatre, dance, opera and film. She is interested in creating dynamic and immersive environments.

In addition to her work for performance, she has experience in design for art installations and exhibitions (Le Mal du Voyage / Jungle Room at the Neufchâtel Museum).

She has also worked on films as production designer and art director : Dues directed by Esther Baker – Cancer Cells directed by Esther Baker and Waving directed by Rolfin Nyhus.