Developing the Dramaturg

Brooke Lee – Belvoir 

Brooke Lee (they/them) is an Australian Chinese actor, director and artist. Brooke graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a BFA in Acting. Their theatre credits include Stay Woke (Malthouse/Darlinghurst Theatre), Hour of the Wolf (Malthouse), Hello, World! (Malthouse), Wolf Play (Red Stitch), The Hall (Bullet Heart Club), Slaughterhouse (Belvoir Downstairs), Let Me Know When You Get Home (National Theatre of Parramatta), The Echo of The Shadow for Melbourne Festival (Teatro de los Sentidos), Puffs (Life Like Touring), Bluey’s Big Play (HVK, USA & Australia Tour) and cover for Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company).

Brooke has assisted director Dom Mercer for A Practical Guide to Self Defence (National Theatre of Parramatta) and Tasnim Hossain for Yellow Face (KXT) which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Direction in Independent Theatre.

Brooke is also a visual artist; their animation for the digital play 落叶归根 (Getting Home) by Cheryl Ho won the Green Room Award for Best Design in Independent Theatre.

Candy Park – Griffin Theatre Company

Candy Park is a Korean-Australian movement artist, choreographer, and filmmaker whose work weaves together storytelling, spirituality, and culture.

A graduate of Ev&Bow Dance Training Centre, she has performed with companies including Kingdom Culture Company, One Dance Company, Stephanie Lake Dance Company, and at TEDxSydney 2022 under Sela Vai.

Her creative practice spans stage, screen, and commercial media from co-directing a Samsung ad to choreographing, performing and earning an award for her own film. Candy’s multidisciplinary voice blurs boundaries, making her a dynamic force in contemporary movement and visual storytelling.

Erica J Brennan – National Theatre of Parramatta

Erica J Brennan is a writer, performer director and creative producer living on Gadigal Land. She is a proud Gamillaroi woman and grew up on the beautiful country of the Gundengurra and Dharug (Blue Mountains).

Her full length works include ‘This In Not Mills & Boon (2017 Old 505) and The Hero Leaves One Tooth (2023 Ratcatch Theatre/ KXT on Broadway) She has develop work with The ABC, AFTRS, Elbow Room Theatre, First Stories Festival, and Critical Stages.  Her work ‘Jurassic Bark!’ received a highly commended for the Griffin Award in 2024 and her work ‘Fortress’ was shortlisted for the Silver Gull and long listed for the Emerging Artis Award (AWG) in same year.

She is a founding member and lead devising artist of Ninefold Ensemble (est 2012), has created large scale puppet works for the Wordford Folk Festival and is the First Nations Coodinator for the Sydney Fringe Festival.

She believes in local stories for global audiences and that diversity is key to thriving in any eco-system.

Kylie Coolwell – Moogahlin

Kylie Coolwell started out as an actor after graduating from NIDA in Acting in 2007. She has acted in plays for Moogahlin Performing Arts Company, the Darlinghurst Theatre Company, The Dreaming Festival, the Newtown Theatre, Q Theatre in Penrith as well as appearing in the television series Redfern Now. In 2012 Kylie participated in the PWA, Redfern Salon for Indigenous Playwrights and started writing Battle of Waterloo – her first attempt at writing a play. Battle of Waterloo was further developed by PWA and in 2014 The Sydney Theatre Company invited her to take part in their Rough Draft Program and public reading which resulted in the prestigious theatre company commissioning Battle of Waterloo and producing it for its 2015 season.

Battle of Waterloo was shortlisted for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2016 and is available to read in the APT catalogue.

Pratha Nagpal – APT

Pratha Nagpal is a writer, director and theatre-maker. Her artistic practice, at its heart, is a practice of truth- seeking and truth- telling, and is one that is constantly asking the question of how this truth is in service of Community.

In 2024, her work عورت راج औरत राज Aurat Raj (The Rule of the Woman) was programmed as part of the 25A program at Belvoir St Theatre. She also took part in the Fresh Ink Writer’s Program at ATYP, Staging the World at the National Theatre of Parramatta and the Playwright’s Lab CAAP x STC. She also directed “These Youths” Be Protesting for the 2024 Martin Lysicrates Prize and was the Associate Director for Champions by Isabella McDermott at Old Fitz Theatre. She is also the assistant director for a new work named Rage Room (Working Title) directed by Tessa Leong with CAAP.

In 2023, she graduated from Master of Fine Arts (Directing) at NIDA where she directed a devised cultural dance work named Kali for the Festival of Emerging Artists amongst other projects. Since graduating, her new work माँ की रसोई (Maa Ki Rasoi – My Mother’s Kitchen), developed as part of the Artslab Program with Shopfront Co-op,  has been programmed for the Art in the Heart of Haymarket Festival at 4A and for the Tape Over festival at KXT.

Tiffany Wong – Merrigong

Tiffany Wong is an actor and director working across Gadigal and Wurundjeri lands. She is the Artistic Director of Slanted Theatre, which has supported over 160 Asian-Australian theatre-makers and storytellers in the past five years.

She is the creator and performer of Help Me, ChatGPT </3 — a hybrid comedy–theatre–science experiment, with showings at the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival.

Her directing credits include Atlantis (New Theatre), Boom and Short Blanket (Slanted Theatre), Lady Precious Stream (Slanted Theatre & The Flying Nun at Brand X), Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (Slanted Theatre & KXT bAKEHOUSE), and Ching Chong Chinaman (Slanted Theatre). Tiffany has worked as Associate Director to Peter Evans on King Lear (Bell Shakespeare), Assistant Director to Courtney Stewart on Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company), and Directorial Assistant to Richard Carroll on Murder For Two (Hayes Theatre Co).

As an actor, she appears in the feature film Five Blind Dates (Amazon MGM Studios & Goalpost Pictures) on Prime Video, and on stage in Romeo & Juliet (Australian Shakespeare Company).

She was named an Honouree on the Asian Australian List in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and is a proud member of Actors Equity. She is thrilled to be joining the 2025 Developing the Dramaturg program to continue deepening her practice in inclusive and responsive storytelling.