Meet the Team

Jayne is a Baramadagal woman of the Dharug-speaking peoples (now known as the Sydney Basin Area, Australia) through the Reid/Goldspink bloodline, with kinship connections to Wiradjuri Country. Jayne has European heritages including; Danish (Christiansen), Irish (Kelly, Clyde, Orr), Scottish (Stewart Clan) and English (Goode, Perfect).

Jayne's  formal education is in law and arts (political science and sociology). Jayne spent almost 20 years working in the courts and legal sector. Jayne is a trained mediator and is admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW. Jayne possesses a strong sense of social justice, which saw her dedicate a decade of her legal career practicing as a lawyer in the family, care and civil law jurisdictions in both metropolitan and regional and remote communities.

Jayne is a strong advocate for reforms to Federal racial discrimination laws, State anti-discrimination laws, and the implementation of a positive duty on employers to provide staff with workplaces free of racism and discrimination.

Jayne enjoys the practices of weaving and bush-dying in the communities she belongs and has hosted many weaving circles to facilitate dialogue focused on decoloniality at home and overseas. Jayne works on public art collaborations and commissions with the intent to foreground narratives of First Nations Sovereignty.

Jayne was the first Baramadagal person to act as Chair of the Parramatta First Nations Advisory Committee and Co-chair the Dharug Keeping Place Reference Group between 2022 - 2024 and was an inaugural participant in the Galang Residency offered by Powerhouse Museum Parramatta and the Cité Internationale Des Arts in 2023.

Jayne works with the Treaty Council Worldwide, Allodial Land Use Register (ALUR), Baramadagal Darug Tribal Governing Council and holds various other advisory roles.

Julie-Ann Christian who many call “Aunty Jules” is a Baramadagal woman of the Dharug-speaking peoples, while Aunty Jules lives on Wiradjuri Country in Wagga Wagga she regularly returns to Country each month to work on nation-building initiatives and community healing work.

Aunty Jules has almost completed her PhD in Indigenous Research and Knowledge Systems, looking at the practice of cultural weaving as a healing methodology for women over 60 impacted by the trauma of the Stolen Generations.  

Aunty Jules is a fierce advocate of a Morton Bay Fig Tree that is over 120 years old, by the Parramatta River, which she has inspired Council to remove parts of a fence that had become impaled in the tree. Aunty Jules likes to remind people that Trees have feelings and that you can’t look after one part of Country and not care about another. 

Aunty Jules has been part of leading the Community drive to see a Boomerang taken from Parramatta in the early 1800s repatriated from the British Museum, which the Community expect to be returned initially on long term loan this year.

Over the years Aunty Jules dedicated 35 years to working in the public service, and upon retiring taught weaving to Community including primary schools and the Junee Gaol through the Shine for Kids Program. Aunty Jules’ weaving has exhibited locally and internationally and although she now lives with Motor Neurone Disease, she remains active in her family and inter-clan nation building initiatives and enjoys weaving with the Aunts on Thursdays.

BIO 

BARAMADAGAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE HOLDER

Jayne is a Baramadagal woman of the Dharug-speaking peoples (now known as the Sydney Basin Area, Australia) through the Reid/Goldspink bloodline, with kinship connections to Wiradjuri Country. Jayne has European heritages including; Danish (Christiansen), Irish (Kelly, Clyde, Orr), Scottish (Stewart Clan) and English (Goode, Perfect).

Jayne's  formal education is in law and arts (political science and sociology). Jayne spent almost 20 years working in the courts and legal sector. Jayne is a trained mediator and is admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW. Jayne possesses a strong sense of social justice, which saw her dedicate a decade of her legal career practicing as a lawyer in the family, care and civil law jurisdictions in both metropolitan and regional and remote communities.

Jayne is a strong advocate for reforms to Federal racial discrimination laws, State anti-discrimination laws, and the implementation of a positive duty on employers to provide staff with workplaces free of racism and discrimination.

Jayne enjoys the practices of weaving and bush-dying in the communities she belongs and has hosted many weaving circles to facilitate dialogue focused on decoloniality at home and overseas. Jayne works on public art collaborations and commissions with the intent to foreground narratives of First Nations Sovereignty.

Jayne was the first Baramadagal person to act as Chair of the Parramatta First Nations Advisory Committee and Co-chair the Dharug Keeping Place Reference Group between 2022 - 2024 and was an inaugural participant in the Galang Residency offered by Powerhouse Museum Parramatta and the Cité Internationale Des Arts in 2023.

Jayne works with the Treaty Council Worldwide, Allodial Land Use Register (ALUR), Baramadagal Darug Tribal Governing Council and holds various other advisory roles.

BARAMADAGAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE HOLDER

Julie-Ann Christian who many call “Aunty Jules” is a Baramadagal woman of the Dharug-speaking peoples, while Aunty Jules lives on Wiradjuri Country in Wagga Wagga she regularly returns to Country each month to work on nation-building initiatives and community healing work.

Aunty Jules has almost completed her PhD in Indigenous Research and Knowledge Systems, looking at the practice of cultural weaving as a healing methodology for women over 60 impacted by the trauma of the Stolen Generations.  

Aunty Jules is a fierce advocate of a Morton Bay Fig Tree that is over 120 years old, by the Parramatta River, which she has inspired Council to remove parts of a fence that had become impaled in the tree. Aunty Jules likes to remind people that Trees have feelings and that you can’t look after one part of Country and not care about another. 

Aunty Jules has been part of leading the Community drive to see a Boomerang taken from Parramatta in the early 1800s repatriated from the British Museum, which the Community expect to be returned initially on long term loan this year.

Over the years Aunty Jules dedicated 35 years to working in the public service, and upon retiring taught weaving to Community including primary schools and the Junee Gaol through the Shine for Kids Program. Aunty Jules’ weaving has exhibited locally and internationally and although she now lives with Motor Neurone Disease, she remains active in her family and inter-clan nation building initiatives and enjoys weaving with the Aunts on Thursdays.

BARAMADAGAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE HOLDER

DIRECTOR AND CREATIVE PRODUCER  

Augusta Supple is an award-winning writer, creative producer, and theatre director based in Western Sydney. She specialises in the development of new plays and site-specific, multi-playwright texts, with a practice grounded in collaboration, place-based storytelling, and intergenerational exchange. Across her career, Augusta has worked with more than 300 playwrights across Australia, Europe, the United States, and Canada, creating innovative frameworks for collective authorship and new writing.

Augusta is widely recognised for her multi-writer, place-responsive projects that explore heteroglossia, foreground gender equity, and prioritise Western Sydney voices. Augusta’s multi-writer place-based projects include: Singled Out(Seymour Centre), Stories from the 428 (Sidetrack Theatre), A View from Moving Windows (Riverside Theatres), Play Parramatta (WestWords, Parramatta), Write Here, Write Now (Brand X/ Queen St Studios, Parramatta’s Lit!), Parramatta Play Mates (WestWords), Write Here Festival (Lake Macquarie)and The Playwright’s Project (The Art House, Wyong).

Internationally projects include Masterclass (Guelph Little Theatre, Canada) Voices at the Market (American Playwrights Center, Minneapolis USA), Dramatis Personae (Ojai Playwrights Conference, California, USA), My Heart Will Go On (English Theatre Utrecht, The Netherlands), Take Me Home Country Roads (Bucharest Playhouse, Romania) and Wish You Were Here (English Theatre Leipzig, Germany) and Leipzig Lessons (English Theatre Leipzig, Germany).

Augusta’s writing spans playwriting, essays, and short prose, and her reviews and cultural commentary has appeared in artshub.com, aussietheatre.com and australianstage.com. Her work has been included in Romanian Australian anthologies, Limelight Magazine, Written Off Literary Journal, New Writers Groupanthologies, Western Sydney University and her writing is included in the National Library of Australia’s PANDORA Archives. 

In 2025 she was named Woman of Western Sydney (Arts) by Western Sydney University, one of the top 50 influential people in the Events Industry in Australia and New Zealand,  and the International Film and Entertainment Festival Awards Woman of the Year. Recently she was a nominee of City of Parramatta’s Citizen of the year for her contribution to arts and culture in the City and leadership of Parramatta’s Lit! Festival.

DRAMATURG

Erin Taylor is a Dramaturg, Director, Producer and Educator. 

Originally from Sydney’s Western suburbs, Erin is a graduate of The University of Wollongong’s Creative Arts School and holds a Master of Education from Sydney University.  

Focused on the dramaturgy and direction of new Australian plays, her recent work includes Museum of Modern Love by Tom Holloway (Sydney Festival, Dramaturg & Assistant Director), Jali by Oliver Twist (Griffin Theatre, Dramaturg & Director) and Kasama Kita by Jordan Shea (25A Belvoir, Dramaturg & Director).  

She has read extensively for development programs for Playwriting Australia and playwriting awards, including the Griffin Award, The Patrick White and the Bruntwood Prize.  

Erin received the Sandra Bates Directors Award in 2019 from Ensemble Theatre, and in 2017 Erin was a mentee of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre Leadership Program. 

She is the CEO of Australian Plays Transform.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Elyse Zouroudis (she/her) is a Greek and Chilean actress and director. She holds a Bachelor of Performance and Theatre from the University of Wollongong.

Her theatre credits include Hidden In Plain View (Bradfield Senior College & VIVID IDEAs, 2019), Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (dir. Emily Ayoub, 2022), The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (dir. Sophie Bentley, 2023), Saved by Edward Bond (dir. Tim Maddock, 2024), CAMPFIRE: Red Thread by Sarah Durickovic (dir. Zachary Hanlon, 2024), Scenes From The Climate Era by David Finigan (dir. Linda Luke, 2024), little girls alone in the woods by Morgan Rose (dir. Mish Fry, 2025) and Snails and Rocks by Astra Milne and Miah Tito-Barratt (Sydney Fringe & Shopfront Arts Co Op, 2025).

Elyse has directed several shorts for Plays By The Rules (Rising Arts Productions, 2024), Short + Sweet Sydney (2024), Green Scenes (Blinking Light Theatre & Old Fitz, 2024), and Scene Dating (Old Fitz, 2025). She served as the assistant director to Sophie Bentley for Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (Rising Arts Productions, 2024).

Recently, Elyse was the assistant director and assistant producer for The Interchange at Qtopia’s The Substation. She has studied on exchange at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema (Vietnam). Additionally, she was a member of PSpace Youth Ambassadors for 2024.

Elyse previously collaborated with Augusta Supple (Parramatta’s Lit) as an assistant director for the premiere staged reading of Joshua Mostafa’s Angauwa for Sydney Fringe Festival. She is delighted to be collaborating again for The Parramatta Play Project.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Tony Ling is a Chinese-Australian post production filmmaker with a background in music and psychology. Formally trained at Australia’s most prestigious film and music institutions, his screen career has been backed by competitive initiatives from Screen Australia, Create NSW, Media Mentors, AFTRS, and Endemol Shine. His craft spans indie and industry features & TV that have gone through international festival circuits as well as worldwide broadcast and streaming services.

He has worked as an in-house assistant editor and media operator at two of Australia’s premier post-production houses, The Post Lounge and Cutting Edge, supporting editorial, dailies, VFX, and post workflows on high-profile projects including Halloween Ends, Black Snow, Last King of the Cross, Home & Away, The Deb, and Eden, for clients such as Amazon MGM, Netflix, Disney, Stan, and Paramount+. Tony was also selected for Endemol Shine Australia’s inaugural Editor and Post-Producer Traineeship, gaining hands-on experience across flagship series including MasterChef, Survivor, and Married at First Sight.

Tony continues to collaborate with talented creatives and is always on the lookout for the next great story. As a proud third culture kid of first-gen immigrants, he brings a unique sensitivity and diverse lens to every project.

Trained in orchestral and electronic composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, his music background deepens his instinct for rhythm, emotion, and storytelling - whether in the edit suite, on set, or in the writer’s room.

Saurabh Bhattacharya is a writer, educator, and emerging playwright whose work explores literature, identity, and social justice within diasporic communities. He holds a Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, West Bengal, and began his career in print journalism, writing and editing on social, political, and environmental issues for The Asian Age, Down To Earth Magazine and Life Positive where he interviewed luminaries such as Pt. Ravi Shankar, futurologist Howard Rheingold, and Dr Deepak Chopra. 

In 2003, Saurabh migrated to Australia, where he continued to write fiction and poetry alongside a diverse range of professional roles. He later completed a degree in Philosophy from the University of New England before retraining as an English teacher, graduating with a Bachelor of Teaching from Charles Sturt University in 2010. Since 2011, he has worked in public education in Western Sydney and is currently a Deputy Principal at  Macarthur Girls High School.

Saurabh is currently commissioned to write his first work for the stage by the Nautanki Theatre Company, a Parramatta-based company recognised as a leading platform for South Asian talent. 

His play Orko is an appropriation of Shakespeare’s Othello, reimagined within the South Asian diasporic community of Western Sydney. The work examines the often-silenced issue of domestic violence and its corrosive impact on families and community life. A first draft of Orko was presented to a full-house audience at the 2025 Parramatta Lit Festival, with the production scheduled for development in 2026.

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