LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches)

Merlynn Tong is a Writer and Actor. Some of her other playwriting credits include Congratulations, Get Rich! (La Boite Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Singapore Repertory Theatre), Golden Blood (Griffin Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company), Antigone (adaptation, Queensland Theatre, Mercury Theatre UK) and Blue Bones (Playlab Productions). Her one-woman-show Blue Bones by Playlab Productions, that she also performed in, has won 6 Matilda Awards including the Lord Mayor Award for Best New Australian Work, Best Mainstage Production and Best Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Joe Paradise Lui is a founding member of Renegade Productions, creating experimental theatre and performance works. It is also a freelance director, writer, and a sound and lighting designer

Cherish Marrington is an artist, and a designer for theatre and film. She is based in Perth. Her film work includes The Dustwalker (2017) and It Only Takes a Night (2021). She has worked continuously in theatre since 2013, her most recent projects being Unnatural (2024) and LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) (2025) and Blue (2025). Sensitive to narrative and atmosphere, her stage work is known for its subtle physical evocation of the text.

Her own creative work investigates ‘horror-erotica’ and its relationship to human experience and the natural world. In 2019 she became director of Chinoiserie Fine Art. and recently co-founded Carpark Projects a gallery and project space fostering experimental art, performance and music.

Nicole Marrington is a Perth based Costume Designer, Coordinator and Maker for theatre, Performing Arts and film. A recent selection of costume design work include Manifest (STRUT Dance), Beneath the Music (Performing Lines), Song Circle (Perth Festival) Las Hormigas/The Ants (PICA), At the End of the Land (Too Close to the Sun Theatre) SITU-8:CITY (STRUT Dance), Homeward Bound (Lazy Yarns), The Ugly (Renegade Productions) as well as Savage Grace and JULIA (Steamworks Arts).

Wendy Yu is an Australian interdisciplinary artist working within Dance and New Media Design. Her work often uses elements of choreographic composition, like choreographing and motion capturing dance in 3D, to tell compelling stories designed specifically for public space. She has presented works in numerous projection festivals in the US and Europe, as well as presented large scale works of projects as part of solo exhibitions. Within theatre, she has worked to create narrative storytelling for spaces such as the Darlinghurst Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and The Bushnell Dance Theatre. Yu has won the International Chinese Outstanding Youth Award for her work Acts of Holding Dance in 2023 and the Think Youth Shanghai International Digital Creation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, New Media Arts Division in 2022. Her continuing ambition is to further the mastery of storytelling through new media art, through refining and expanding skills within the fields of generative programming, creative coding, movement choreography and projection mapping.

Kate Baldwin is a disabled, Japanese-Australian lighting designer, who lives on Wangal Country and works predominantly across the lands of the Gadigal and Burramattagal Peoples.

Since graduating from NIDA in 2019, some of her credits as Lighting Designer include: Lose to Win (Belvoir); Nothing (National Theatre of Parramatta); Albion (New Ghosts Theatre Company, Secret House & Seymour Centre); Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company); The Box Show (Critical Stages Touring & Junkyard Beats); Guards at the Taj (National Theatre of Parramatta); Chewing Gum Dreams (Green Door Theatre Company and Red Line Productions); and seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Green Door Theatre Company).

She completed a residency at Sydney Theatre Company as Design Associate (Lighting) in 2021 and 2022. She was also a part of Ka-llective, which had residencies with PACT and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in 2021 and 2022.

An award-winning playwright, director, composer and lecturer, Marcel Dorney is a founding member and co-artistic director of Melbourne based theatre company, Elbow Room, whose eighteen premiere productions since 2008 include We Get It (Melbourne Theatre Company‘s NEON Festival, 2015), Prehistoric (Brisbane Festival 2014, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018), and Joe Paradise Lui’s Enlightenment (Darebin Arts/Studio Underground, 2021).

He holds a Master in Performance Creation from the University of Melbourne, and has worked extensively as a dramaturg and script consultant. Awards include: Best Director and Best Ensemble (Ind.), 2011 Green Room Awards (After All This); 2012 Gold Matilda (Fractions); Best Writing, 2014 GRA, (Prehistoric); Best Ensemble (Ind.), 2021 GRA (Enlightenment).

Matthew Erren is an emerging Lighting Designer and Associate Lighting Designer. He graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Art, majoring in Lighting Design (2019). Matthew has spent his professional career designing for Theatre, Dance and Exhibitions. He was nominated for the PAWA Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his work on Catch 22 (Amelia Sagrabb Projects, Blue Room Theatre). Recent credits as Lighting Designer include Made in Boorloo, 24 Hour Play Generator and The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia (WAYTco), Ignorance was Bliss (Enneagon Movement), and A Love Letter to the Nigthingale (Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, The Blue Room Theatre).

Harry is a freelance production manager based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has worked in production & stage management roles on productions for organisations including Malthouse Theatre, RISING, Sydney Festival, Australian Theatre for Young People, Belvoir St Theatre, Yirramboi and broadly across the independent sector. Harry also co-founded independent theatre company Fever103 Theatre, where he has produced new Australian work at fortyfivedownstairs, Meat Market and Northcote Town Hall. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Performance from Monash University.

Performing Lines is a national organisation that produces provocative contemporary performance by Australia’s most audacious independent artists. We curate a portfolio of work that is propelled by pressing questions and new ways of seeing the world. We champion the unconventional, the marginal, the rebellious and the new. Our purpose is to champion risk and to ensure that the breadth and plurality of Australia’s creative potential is represented and celebrated. Performing Lines is led by Executive Producer Simon Wellington, who manages teams in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Hobart, with a network of producers and presenters around the country and the world.