Jacinta has been working in the Theatre Industry professionally since 2016. She predominantly works as a Stage Manager, and Technical Manager.

With A_tistic, Jacinta has worked on Helping Hands (La Mama, 2019), Alexithymia (Poppyseed Festival, 2017), Pinocchio Restrung (Melbourne Fringe, 2016) and was cast in both iterations of Them Aspies (MUST, 2015, 2014). She has also had the opportunity to collaborate on and present workshops (Arts Centre, Drama Vic), and assist with our Relaxed Performance consultations.

Outside of A_tistic, some of her Stage Management credits include Chase (A Daylight Connection, Malthouse Theatre 2023), Who’s Gonna Love ‘Em (A Daylight Connection, Malthouse Theatre 2023), A Dodgeball Named Desire (Bloomshed, 2023), Animal Farm (Bloomshed, 2023), Homo Pentacostus (Development, Joel Bray Productions and Malthouse Theatre, 2023), The Return (Swing ASM, Malthouse, 2022), Everyone is Famous (Riot Stage, 2021), Virtual Intimacy (ASIAtopa, 2020), Gender Euphoria (Sydney Mardi Gras, 2020), Paradise Lost (The Bloomshed 2019), The Market is a Wind Up Toy (The Bloomshed 2019, 2018, Sydney and Melbourne), The Nightingale and the Rose (Little Ones Theatre, 2018), The Moors (Little Ones Theatre and Red Stitch, 2017), The Happy Prince (Little Ones Theatre, 2017).

As a Tech Manager, she has worked with Yummy Productions since 2019 on shows such as Yummy Joy Machine (Melbourne, 2023), Yummy Iconic (London Underbelly Festival, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin, Sydney, Tasmania, Gold Coast 2022, 2023), Yummy Deluxe (Speigeltent Barwon Heads, Sydney Mardi Gras, HOTA Gold Coast, 2020), Yummy Unleashed (Castlemaine Festival, 2021), Yummy: How to Make a Western (filmed in 2020, screened 2021, 2022). She has also worked as Bits Akimbo’s tech manager since 2022,, and has toured Cool Show Sixty Nine around Australia, and worked on their show Get in the Boot. She has also Tech Managed for the Drag Queen Karen From Finance, working on Karen From Finance Out of Office, and Karen From Finance Doing Time.

Jacinta is currently working as a stage manager, technical manager, production manager and arts administrator, and can be contacted at cinta.ellen@outlook.com.

Description text goes heJames is an autistic self-advocate and theatre maker. James acted as A_tistic’s finance manager, and recently completed his Bachelor of Economics and Finance at RMIT with a major in Macroeconomics. He became part of A_tistic as a devising performer in Them Aspies and has since contributed to the company as a co-director of Helping Hands, a workshop designer/presenter, a dramaturge for Pinocchio and Alexithymia, and most recently as the co-creator and lead facilitator of the Apprentice Adventurers Association program. He draws on collaborative negotiation and world-building techniques used in table-top roleplaying games to inform his approach to devised storytelling. James views theatre as an effective and delightful tool for the examination of the norms of society and, as necessary, the work toward their reformation. In conclusion, ABA must be destroyed.re

In her arts life, Hannah is a writer, director, dramaturge and illustrator. In her civilian life, she started out in law, but was seduced by the glamour and prestige of social work.

Hannah brought her experience as a disability-justice-focused counsellor, case worker, advocate and teacher/curriculum designer to the A_tistic team. She was one of the token non-autistic members of A_tistic’s arts core, co-directed Helping Hands, co-created the Apprentice Adventurers Association program, and contributed workshop development, design, dramaturgy and website/social media management to A_tistic.

Hannah’s other credits include dramaturgy for Quippings, writing for Passer Vulpes’ fiction podcast Supernatural Sexuality with Doctor Seabrooke, short stories published in various journals, and writing and direction for her debut play, Aphonia: Love Stories (MUST). Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Overland and SBS Life. She is endlessly fascinated by the complexities of interpersonal communication and the challenges of developing a utopian imagination.

Hannah has an ongoing interest in work as a writer, director, dramaturge, poster and promotional image illustrator. She is also a social worker and training/workshop designer/facilitator with a particular focus on disability and neurodiversity education for social service/care workers. She can be contacted at hannah.e.aroni@gmail.com.

John is an award-winning lighting designer working primarily in Melbourne, though his work for the stage has been seen in cities across Australia. John is a member of A_tistic’s arts core and a former co-director of the company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, with a theatre major and performance minor. His recent lighting design credits include Animal Farm (Bloomshed), Paradise Lost (Bloomshed, winner of Green Room Award for Lighting Design), The Nose (Bloomshed), The Market is a Wind Up Toy (Bloomshed), Kilter (One Fell Swoop Circus), Wrath (Baker’s Dozen Theatre), Marie Antoinette (Heartstring Theatre), The Man Who Cannot Sleep (White Night/Magic Lantern Studio/Sanctum Theatre), Too Ready Mirror (Darebin Arts Speakeasy), Ironbound; Hurlyburly; and Shining City (Q44 Theatre), Norma (Melbourne Opera), and Otello (Melbourne Opera).

He also works as a lighting technician and programmer, touring technician, and production manager.

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