An award-winning graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Honours Music and Education degrees in orchestral percussion, Joe has worked extensively worldwide as a performer, session musician, composer, music producer and music director. Joe is the Music Director for Velvet – Australian National Tour, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sydney Opera House, Auckland Arts Festival and Norwegian Cruise Line. Other Music Director credits include Gypsy (Hayes Theatre Co), Marcia Hines – Disco Inferno, B-Girl Sydney Opera House, Bobby Fox – Four Seasons in One Night and iOTA – Young Hard and Solo for Sydney Festival and Pigalle, both debuted at the Sydney Festival. Further credits include Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs – 10th Anniversary World Tour, Novello Theatre London West End, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa tours. David Campbell – Swing Sessions I & II, Good Lovin’, On Broadway and Let’s Go tours. He has worked extensively with Human Nature on The Motown Show tours, and Las Vegas residency. Events include Sydney New Year’s Eve and the Elevate Festival 2022. Joe is the soundtrack producer on the award winning, Velvet. The Original Cast Recording of Velvet was nominated for an ARIA Award. Recently, Joe has arranged & produced David Campbell’s album release The Saturday Sessions and Marcia Hines’  recent production of The Gospel According to Marcia and is the Music Supervisor on new works L’Hotel (Adelaide Cabaret Festival) & Dubbo Championship Wrestling (Hayes Theatre Co). Joe’s recent performance credits include Darlinghurst Theatre’s production of Once; the World Premiere of Dream Lover with David Campbell and the Helpmann Award winning Smoke & Mirrors with iOTA, directed by Craig Ilott. Joe was a co-recipient of the Helpmann for Best Original Score with iOTA. Joe is the co-creator, composer and co-producer of the all-female percussion stage show, DrummerQueens which premiered at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in 2021.

Craig Reid aka ‘The Incredible Hula boy’ is the award winning, Scottish hula-hoop act and the undeniable king of the rings! With a Circus university degree in hula-hooping and an extensive background in gymnastics and dance he has taken to stages in cabarets, TV shows and variety theatres all around the world. Credited with ‘Best Specialty Act’ from the London Cabaret awards, ‘GOP Variete Comedy Award’ from the famous Soly Circo Circus festival and winner of the BBC TV talent show ‘The Slammer’. He also has multiple Guinness World Records with his hoops. Past performances include the world famous La Clique at Edinburgh Fringe festival, La Soirée in London’s Westend and CabaRAE in Honolulu, Hawaii to name a few. Craig is an original cast member and resident director of Velvet on its Australian tour. He joins the Australian cast of Velvet Rewired direct from Las Vegas and a season of Absinthe in a Spiegelt tent production at Caeser’s Palace and prior to that the Hamburg season of Velvet, all in 2022.

Tom won the prestigious Australian Cabaret Showcase in 2009 and subsequently toured his one-man shows Que Sera, Sharah and It’s Raining Me to sell-out theatre and festival seasons all around Australia.  He premiered That 90’s Show to critical acclaim at the Hayes Theatre and received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Cabaret Performance. After coming to wider national attention as a star finalist on Channel Ten’s I Will Survive, he became a regular segment presenter on Channel Nine’s Mornings. Tom’s musical theatre credits include Muriel’s Wedding, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Shrek, American Psycho and 9 to 5. He most recently returned from New Zealand where he played the role of George in The Wedding Singer. Tom has performed at the Hayes Theatre in Half Time, Only Heaven Knows and The Drowsy Chaperone for which he received a Glugs Award for his performance as Aldolpho.

The Willers are the third generation of a famous rollerskating legacy, originally started in the 1950s, by an act called ‘The Willers’ and carried on in the 80s for a further 35 years by the ‘Skating Willers’ and currently being performed in its new modern form by Pierre Poissonnet and Stephanie Rijkens as ‘The WILLERS (III)’. Pierre Jean-Paul Poissonet comes from a famous circus family – ‘Billy Smarts Circus’ – which was the largest touring show in Europe in the 60s and 70s. He is a born and bred performer being a seventh-generation circus entertainer and the first great great grandson of the legendary circus man himself Billy Smart. He was first on stage at the age of three at the Swiss National circus ‘Knie’ and after he finished school started a new vibrant style of skating act with his full-time partner.

Stephanie Rijkens was born in Thailand, she grew up traveling the world as her father was an oil tycoon which took her and her family to live in some exotic lands, including Ghana, Paris France, London England and Texas USA. Having the wanderlust in her blood it was only natural for Stef to literally run away and join the circus. Stef and Pierre have been performing together since they left school in 2013.

Craig is an award-winning Australian theatre director. He has worked worldwide with a diverse range of theatrical companies and arts festivals across multiple forms and genres. Credits include HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Showtune), LOVE SONG (MTC), PIG IRON PEOPLE (STC), THE PILLOWMAN (Company B Belvoir), SMOKE & MIRRORS (Sydney Festival), Creative Director for PACHA SYDNEY @ THE IVY, B-GIRL (SOH), AMERICAN IDIOT (Shake & Stir), VELVET (Organised Pandemonium), LA BOHEME (Opera Queensland), VIRGIN BRIDE (Frontier Touring), BAND OF MAGICIANS (Sydney Festival & Tropicana Vegas). Most recently, Craig directed BETTY BLOKKBUSTER (Redline Productions and Sydney Festival), LA CLIQUE (Leicester Square, London), VELVET REWIRED (Organised Pandemonium), and L’HOTEL (Adelaide Cabaret Festival & SOH).

She was also the Choreographer/Movement Director for The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s productions of Funny Girl, Porgy and Bess and Candide and was the Australian Resident Director of HAMILTON (Michael Cassel Group). Amy’s film and television credits include Dance Academy, The X Factor, ABC’s Giggle and Hoot as well as numerous advertising campaigns. In 2020 she made her directorial debut with A Chorus Line (Darlinghurst Theatre Co) that opened as part of the 2022 Sydney Festival followed by a successful season at The Sydney Opera House.