Francisco Lopez is an award-winning senior producer and lead writer of ‘2022 Podcast of the Year’ winner The Last Outlaws and Who is Daniel Johns? for Spotify. He has credits from Audible Studios, Pineapple Street Media, and Gimlet Media.
Mandy Nolan is a feminist, trouble maker, and wordsmith warrior. As a stand up comedian, regular columnist and author of 5 books. She has used her writing to inspire change, and to shine the light on injustice. Sometimes funny, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes confronting, but always on point. She has always believed that words have power. To change minds, change hearts and change government. A stand up comedian of nearly 4 decades Nolan is as at home on the stage as she is on the page. Unselfconscious, insightful, reflective, and confrontational, Nolan believes her job is to navigate the margins. To say the unsaid.
Odette Nettleton started performing stand up in 2019 after attending one of Mandy Nolan’s famous writing workshops and meeting Vanessa Larry Mitchell. Inspired by Vanessa’s dedication to the local comedy scene and diversity in comedy, Odette started performing around the Northern Rivers. She has performed in Sydney, Brisbane, and places in between, and has shared the stage with Mel Buttle and Ellen Briggs.
Lisa Sharpe, originally from Ballina, began stand-up comedy at 48 years old and found the perfect platform for her voice and writing skills. She became a QLD Raw Comedy state finalist from her second time on stage and made the finals again, a year later. Lisa’s delivery is warm, charming and surprising. Her stories will twist, turn and weave their way into your heart. Fresh from Adelaide Fringe and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lisa is bringing her brand new show ROAR to Literary Allsorts.
“The respect she earns from her audience is proof enough that she is a gifted comedian and a captivating raconteur and audiences should not delay in seeking out what she has to say” Theatre Haus 2022.
Thor Phillips is a singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso whose passionate, powerful performances are stirring up storms across the nation. A professional musician for over 17 years, playing guitar and supporting artists in the blues, rock, country and folk scenes, Thor has recently been stepping into his own force. Thor has released 2 studio albums and recently a live single. thorphillips.com
Katherine Biber is a legal scholar, historian and criminologist and Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the author of Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography (Routledge, 2007) and In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence(Routledge, 2019).
She writes about evidence and archives, photography, documentation, and legal history. She is currently writing a book about Australia’s last proclaimed outlaws, the brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor. The podcast trilogy The Last Outlaws arose from this research.
Leroy Parsons is an actor across film, stage and television. He has appeared in The Circuit (2007), Something Fishy (2010) and in 2011, played his great-great-grandfather Jimmy Governor in Clare Britton’s theatre production Posts in the Paddock.
Leroy also starred in the short film Man Real (2015), and played Australia’s first Aboriginal President in JUTE Theatre Company’s performance of Proppa Solid (2016).
In 2020, Leroy starred in Jane Harrison’s work, The Visitors which was presented by Sydney Festival, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Carriageworks.
He is the proud great-great-grandson of Jimmy Governor. The role of Narrator in The Last Outlaws series was voiced and co-written by Leroy Parsons.
Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning performance poet and the founder of Poets Out Loud. Her upcoming debut ‘Tight Bindings’ explores embodiment and the stories that bind us. Sarah’s work appears in Best of Australian Poems, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal and more. As a performer she has won the Nimbin World Cup and Bunker Slam, and been a finalist of the XYZ Prize for Spoken-Word three times. She also collaborates with circus artist Britt Portelli on ‘The Birth Suite’.
Vincent Stead writes and performs poetry in the Northern Rivers area of NSW Australia. He is a member of the Kyogle Writer’s Group and is involved in the promotion and running of a number of poetry events that can be found at North Coast Poetry and Spoken Word.
Dr Jenny Fraser, is a Migunburri Creative Researcher. Her poetry has been published with Yellow Arrow Journal (USA), IndigenousX, Rabbit Journal and in the anthology ‘This country anytime anywhere’ by IAD Press. Jenny is a recipient of many Residency Programs including Varuna House and Apex Arts in New York City. She has also written for the Havana Biennale, NAICA (Native American Indigenous Cinema and Arts), Conundrum Magazine (Canada), SBS and others. She also runs Solid Screen Healing Arts Retreats and maintains a creative practice alongside lecturing and publishing.