Our Team

ben noble - creative producer

Ben is an actor, writer, creative producer and teaching artist. A graduate of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland he also trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (UK), Atlantic Theater Acting School (USA), Brave Studios and 16th Street (Aus). He performed with Bard in the Botanics (UK), Shakespeare’s Globe (UK), Red Stitch, Fairly Lucid Productions, Australian Shakespeare Company and Stage West Canada amongst other independent companies and festivals. As a writer, Ben’s play, MEMBER, received 2nd place in the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation Playwrighting Award in USA and had three plays either win or place in the St Martins Best Short Play Award. As a producer, he has been the co-curator/producer for The Melbourne Fringe Festival at St Martins Youth Arts Centre, associate producer at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and is the founding member and co-creative producer of Fairly Lucid Productions. Ben has been a teaching artist at Arts Centre Melbourne and coaches students in performance.

Sarah Ranken - creative producer

Sarah graduated from BAAPA (now known as Federation University) earning a Bachelor of Arts in Acting. She trained at RADA, 16th Street Actors Studio and has extensively trained with the Howard Fine Studio Australia since its inception.

Theatre credits include ‘Sonya’ in Uncle Vanya at fortyfivedownstairs and ‘Anya’ in The Cherry Orchard , Laundress in a sold out season of 'Metamorphoses' at Melbourne Fringe, and ‘Nellie’ in e-baby directed by Anna McCrossin- Owen.

Sarah has appeared in a number of short films and independent features including Plague which topped the Itunes Horror Charts and is now on US Netflix’s, plus various corporate and commercial work. Sarah also appeared as a lead in the Channel 31 series Leongatha as Mazzy.

georgia rann - company member

Upon receiving her diploma of live production, theatre and events in 2011 Georgia Rann has continued to develop creatively within the art of theatre based lighting design & production. Her Australian lighting and stage credits include collaborations with companies such as Stork productions, Fairly Lucid productions (Raton Laveur, The Reckoning, Member), Travis Cotton’s Robots Vs Art, Chamber made opera (The Minotaur trilogy, Turbulence, Opera for a small mammal & Opera therapea) as well as running numerous venues in festivals & fringes nation wide. She is active as a freelance and collaborative designer & creative producer in commissioned public art, botanic instillation and living sculptures. Her interests conscious design as well as repurposing objects & waste unfold in projects such as sustainable building, set design and sculpture. http://www.giorgiastefania.com

wedny bos - company member

In addition to being a highly sought after Voice-over Artist for Radio and Television, Wendy has appeared ‘on screen’ in McLeod’s Daughters, Hawke and most recently in Neighbours. In theatre, Wendy is best known for her award winning work with the highly innovative Floogle Theatre Company based in South Australia. She was nominated for an Oscart and received an Horatio Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ruth in Pinter’s The Homecoming. Wendy’s other theatre credits include Euripides’ Helen, Don’s Party, and Total Strangers for the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Young Guns project. She has played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Viola in Twelfth Night for the Adelaide University Theatre Guild and Rosalind in As You Like It for Spark Productions. Wendy also portrayed The Dominatrix in the award winning feature film, The Wedding Party.

simone seales - company member

Originally from Florida, Simone Seales is a Glasgow-based cellist who completed their postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021. They focus on free improvisation (both tonal and atonal) and devising music for theatre. Simone is passionate about exploring sound, how sound can reflect emotional states of being and how emotions are embodied. Their creative influences come from Black feminist leaders such as Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur and bell hooks. Within Simone's creative work, they centre Blackness, sexuality, intersectional feminism and anti-racism. They believe Western Classical musicians are capable of making meaningful social change.

Passionate about reaching new audiences and increasing access to arts education, Simone is a Lead Ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation, and focuses on trauma-informed teaching practices.

LEE MCCLENAGHAN - COMPANY MEMBER

Lee has been a production runner and chaperone for the ABC, hosted an interview based program Behind The Words (C31) and played Helene McKenzie in the drama/comedy series Under The Milky Way (C31), which earned her an award for ‘Best Actor in a Narrative Drama, Comedy or Sketch’ for the 2019 Antenna Awards. She has studied under Wendy Ward, performing as part of the Ward Theatre Company and at The Melbourne Actor’s Lab. With Choo Choo Productions she co-produced, co-directed and featured in a trilogy of short films. The first in the trilogy Half of Me had its premiere screening at the 2019 St Kilda Film Festival, made official selection into the Rome Film Awards, Moscow Shorts and London Independent Film Awards, where it won Lee a ‘Best Actress’ Award. All of Me, the third in the trilogy, which she directed, premiered at Lorne Film 2019 and all three films were selected to screen together in the online programming of the Geelong International Film Festival 2020 and Sydney World Film Festival 2021. Lee has been an ensemble member of Girls Act Good since 2014. She co-produced and directed their immersive theatre and short feature The Association which was a part of the AACTA Social Shorts and wrote and performed her own episode in their web series Last Breath.