Photos: Ramsay Taplin.
Showing and Q&A
When: Thursday, June 19, 6-7pm
Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)
Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A).
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This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.
Please arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm sharp start.
This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).
Accessibility
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.
If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com
FAFF is a protest to a world out of control, offering an escape from the endless global crises, overwhelming responsibilities, and gnawing screen addictions - by putting on a bonnet and escaping into the fantasy world of Jane Austen to ask: “How can I experience joy, when the world is dying?”
FAFF explores how we respond to crises - both personally and collectively - and explores the role of joy in that.
A new dance theatre comedy work by Erin Fowler, developed and performed in this second-stage development with Zoe Dunwoodie, Fallow (Tom Borgas & Amber Cronin), Sam McMahon, Ella Molloy, Hew Parham, Will Spartalis, Carol Wellman-Kelly and Jazzy Williamson-Grey.
Audiences can expect exploration of scenes, concepts and design, along with conversations around the creative process, key themes, and the questions that drive the work.
The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Erin, hosted by The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.
About the artists:
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Erin is an award-winning dance and physical theatre maker, performer, musician, and educator based on Kaurna Yerta.
She creates and presents deeply feminine, audience-driven, socially minded work and blends together an eclectic mix of contemporary dance, feminine movement, clowning, cabaret and martial arts.
Erin’s choreographic credits include Erin’s choreographic and performance credits include her two award winning solo works; EGG (2021, Weekly Best Dance Award, Best Dance Hollywood Fringe 2021, NZ Tour Ready Award Adelaide Fringe 2022, Best Theatre Nominee, Sydney Fringe 2022), and FEMME, (2019 Adelaide Fringe - Best Dance Award, 2020 Adelaide Fringe – Made in Adelaide award). Other works include Gen-y (2018) commissioned for the Adelaide Dance Festival; Epoch (2016) created on Australian Dance Theatre for their Ignition season; and the acclaimed environmental dance film, Gaia (2014, 'Best Experimental' London Film Awards and Byron Bay Film Festival).
As a performer she has worked on Victoria Falconer’s, The Sight at Dark Mofo, and The Vali Myers Project: And Then We Go at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and with BalletLab, Patch Theatre Company and independent artists Lina Limosani, Monte Massi, Ben Brooker & Teddy Dunn (Act Now Theatre) and Larissa McGowan.
She was also the movement director for Rebecca Meston’s 2024 Adelaide Festival Centre presentation of HITS and is the Director and Choreographer for Joanne Hartstone’s The Smart Girls Guide to Breaking Up in the 2025 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
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Hew Parham is a clown and theatre performer and director. Hew has extensively trained and mentored in the in the Pochinko Clowning through Mask Method with John Turner at The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance.
Hew has also trained with British Physical Comedy troupe Spymonkey in London, England and Italian clown Giovanni Fusetti. Hew has developed and been commissioned to create several solo shows including Symphony of the Bicycle which toured nationally in 2024 in partnership with Brink and STC, as well as Giovanni, which played at the New York Clown Theatre Festival, The Wonderland Festival in Brisbane and The Adelaide Fringe Festival; Odyssey Schmodyssey which played at the Sangeunay Arts Festival, Quebec Canada; Rudi’s The Rinse Cycle which played at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, as well as The Riddalin Brothers with Callan Fleming and A Not So Trivial Pursuit (Adelaide Fringe).
Hew has travelled extensively with Melbourne-based company Bunk Puppets to tour their show Sticks Stones Broken Bones to countries such as Norway, Germany and China. Other credits includes: The Weill File (Adelaide Cabaret Festival); The Swell Mob (Flabberghast Theatre/Adelaide Cabaret Festival); Me and My Shadow (Patch Theatre Company); Boo (Windmill Theatre Company); Superheroes (Stone/Castro); Blister by Sarah Peters (Holden Street Theatres); and If you can learn to fake authenticity you have it made by Rebecca Meston, (Feltspace).
He has also directed a number of shows including Egg (Erin Fowler, Adelaide Fringe) Chameleon (Frank Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rumpus); Moof’s Adventures (Backporch Theatre, Adelaide Fringe); Dead Gorgeous (Madness of Two, Adelaide Fringe Festival) and Light Minded (AC Arts).
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Will is a globe-trotting Production Manager, Circus Producer, Theatre & Film Composer, Sound Designer, Set Builder, Aerial Rigger, and Nightclub Manager.
Following two decades of experience in Production with Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Festival Centre, State Opera, State Theatre Company, and a viral smash-hit with his collaborative film project Italian Spiderman, Will relocated to NYC to assume the role of Head of Production at iconic Brooklyn Nightclub and multidisciplinary art space, House of Yes.
His compositions and sound design work have appeared in numerous State Theatre Company works (Volpone, Gorgon, & Jesikah) as well as for independent theatre and dance productions, including Hew Parham’s Symphony of the Bicycle and Erin Fowler’s EGG. He has also recently completed a commission to compose the score for a South Australian made feature film, Diabolic.
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Fallow is a critical spatial practice that focuses on site-sensitive, immersive presentations in public space through sculpture, installation, performance and education.
A merging of the practices of Amber Cronin and Tom Borgas, its field is the ecological space of arts research and practice– a thinking-through-doing that seeks to reframe an experience of reciprocity and connection as a definitive way of being in the world.
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Zoe is a performing artist and emerging maker currently living and working on Kaurna Yerta. She graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2011 with a Diploma in Dance Performance, and was shortlisted for the Tanja Liedkte Fellowship for 2024.
Zoë worked full-time and as a guest dancer for Australian Dance Theatre from 2012 – 2020, under the directorship of Garry Stewart, and toured his works nationally and internationally. Zoë has worked with local and international choreographers including Daniel Jaber, Ina Christel Johannessen, Lee Brummer, and children’s theatre companies Patch Theatre Company, Windmill Theatre Co and Windmill Pictures.
She is currently developing her own works including dance theatre work Llama and children’s puppet show Planet Stella co-created with fellow maker Tim Overton.
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Ella is a highly skilled and dynamic mover with an extensive technical background. Originally from Sydney, she trained intensively at Classique Dance before furthering her education at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, where she was mentored by leading industry professionals.
Ella holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts in contemporary dance from Adelaide College of the Arts, where she worked with leading choreographers such as Sue Healy, Daniel Jaber, Leigh Warren, and Lee Brummer. Her rigorous training has shaped her into a versatile and expressive performer, refining both her technical and artistic capabilities.
Throughout her studies, Ella has worked closely with renowned industry artists, contributing to the development of new works and expanding her choreographic and performance repertoire.
In 2025, she performed in numerous works at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Adelaide Festival with Stephanie Lake Dance Company, further cementing her presence in the contemporary dance scene.
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Sam is an accomplished MC and entertainer, actor, clown, clown doctor and theatre performer. He is regularly engaged as an MC and entertainer for festivals including the Adelaide Fringe, Cabaret Festival and Adelaide as well as other corporate and cultural events. His performance credits include working with Slingsby Theatre Company for the creation and tour of The Tragic Life of Cheeseboy.
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Jazzy is a contemporary dancer based in Adelaide/Kaurna land. She graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance), from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2022, after performing works by Kialea-Nadine Williams, Peter Sheedy, Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Lee Brummer, Garry Stewart, Alison Currie, Daniel Riley, and Daniel Jaber.
Following her graduation, she was selected as the 2023 recipient of the ilDance Professional Development program with The Mill and worked with Zoe Dunwoodie on her creative development of Llama. She was also selected as a dancer in the 2024 Choreolab program. Jazzy is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and is empowered by the creative freedom of improvisation and choreographic composition. She is passionate about exploring themes of the human condition, philosophy, and psychology in future choreographic works.
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Matt is an award-winning Australia actor working extensively in South Australia, China and The US. Film highlights inc. Monolith (2022, Dir. Matt Vesley) Top End Wedding (2019, Dir. Wayne Blair), Awoken (2020, Dir. Daniel Philips) and One Eyed Girl (2015, Dir. Nick Matthews, Projector Films).
Matt is an accomplished theatre actor with highlights including Creditors, Switzerland, Romeo and Juliet, Rumpelstiltskin (Windmill co-production), The Red Cross Letters, Volpone; or The Fox, Between Two Waves (Umbrella production), Babyteeth, Pornography and The Give And Take for The State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Matt has toured with Windmill Theatre extensively through Australia, the US and China. Matt is a theatre maker, collaborating with Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Oz Asia Festival, Theatre Republic, Slingsby, Sandpit, AJZ Productions and made new work as a member of award winning theatre company five.point.one. Matt is also an accomplished voice-over artist.
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With a zest for life and a passion for dance, theatre, puppetry and musicals, Carol brings 35 years of professional experience to her professional practice which includes dance performance, teaching, choreographing, directing, facilitating and management and has taken her to many parts of the globe.
Most recently, Carol has been a freelance Dance/Theatre artist working across genres with a wide variety of participants and roles including: mentor and artistic advisor for Independent choreographers and dancers, guest lecturer and assessor for University Dance and Drama departments in Australia and NZ and Board member for Restless Dance Theatre, Ausdance SA and Ausdance National as well as State and Federal funding bodies.
Carol is dedicated to creating access to the arts for all and is a trained Audio Describer for people with Visual Impairment.
This residency has support from
This project has been developed in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Development Program.
