What's Your Jam?

Hannah Clarke is a performance facilitator, boss lady of Fringe, scapegoat for technicalities and best friend to the house sav. Passionate about Fringe and its kaupapa from a young age Hannah has invested most of her adult life in creating and supporting performance that sits outside the usual, before shattering your expectations and defining the new usual. Coming to full-time art making with a marketing and information management background, a theatre degree from Vic Uni, and an inclination toward risky beautiful wild creations, Hannah has been behind Fringe since 2011, having spent eight years in front and still actively presenting new works with Present Company Live.

Over the past 10 years Stephii Onassiss has gone from obscure, messy drag queen wannabe to a shining light of the Wellington Drag scene. With her unique style and love of heavy costuming and make up, she's a stand out and always a crowd fave.

Megan is a 29 year old senior software engineer at ShowGizmo Ltd, an event app company based in Wellington. She's passionate about increasing diversity in tech, transgender issues, and more lately, the burgeoning video game industry in New Zealand.

Lisa is a Melbourne-based writer and performer, and Australia's favourite Femme Daddy Comedian Sparklepuppy.

Jim Stanton. Costumier. Comedian. Cool mom.

Laura Irish is an award-winning actress, improviser and playwright based in Nelson, NZ. She is the recently appointed Artistic Director of the Nelson Fringe Festival.

Jonny Potts is a four-time nominee for Best Comedy in the NZ Fringe Festival, as well as winning and being nominated for various awards from the Dunedin Fringe, NZ Comedy Festival, NZ Comedy Guild, NZ 48 Hour Film and Wellington Comedy Awards. In 2015, his show 'Loose' won Best Stand Up and Best Writing in the NZ Fringe, and has subsequently toured to Sydney and around New Zealand.

Amelia Ryan has traversed the stages of New York City, London, Edinburgh, Australia and (very soon) NZ, with her one woman comedy cabaret shows. She has a slew of awards to her name, including winner of the Your Theatrics cabaret contest, Sydney Fringe Springboard award, and Best Cabaret at the Adelaide and Perth Fringe Weekly awards. She mentors young cabaret artists, and is passionate inspiring laughter and liberty in all she does.

Tabitha Arthur is creatively restless. She constantly seeks out fresh challenges across her chosen fields of directing, photography, and graphic design.

James Nokise is a comedian, social commentator, critic and touring festival performer.