The Team

Studio1 is a space to facilitate the nexus of artists - events - community and our team reflects the required skills and knowledge to support this gathering. Drawing on core skills of Creative Leadership, Events Producing and Education, alongside external clients delivering specialist knowledge, Studio1 can respond to the needs of our community with nuance, finesse and bespoke care.

Lisa Bio

Lisa Wilson

DIRECTOR

Lisa Wilson is an award-winning dance artist with an international career as director, choreographer, producer, performer, educator and mentor. Her body of work moves across genres having created for theatre companies, opera, large-scale installation work, poly-media performances, company commissions and full- length independent work.


  • Lisa’s choreographic credits range from critically acclaimed full-length independent works, to works for - The Australian Ballet Company, Sydney Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, Opera Queensland, Dance North, Queensland Theatre Company, The Place Theatre ‘Resolution!’ (UK), to name a few.

    Lisa’s work has been nominated in numerous critics’ choice awards; was a finalist at The Helpmann and Australian Dance awards; has toured nationally in Australia to critical acclaim and showcased at national performing arts markets. As a choreographer Lisa has been awarded numerous fellowships, grants and residencies both in Australia and internationally, including the prestigious Hephzibah Tintner Choreographic Fellowship in 2011. Lisa continues to develop new Australian work and is a supported artist by Metro Arts producing services.

    Lisa has also been a leading, professional contemporary dancer and from 1995-2012 collaborated and performed for prominent choreographers and companies throughout Australia and the United Kingdom, appearing in Arts Festivals and venues worldwide in Japan, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Singapore, China, Germany, Mexico, New Caledonia and the U.S.A.

    As a prominent figure in the Australian dance sector Lisa has : initiated programs such as Elevate, a pre-professional/emerging artist transition program ; lectured on faculty for over a decade at QUT Dance; been a peer assessor for The Australia Council for the Arts; an original board member of The Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance and board member of Ausdance Qld, providing dance expertise and representing the interests of dance artists at a governance level.

    In 2016 Lisa opened the Studio - Dance and Arts inspired by creating a dance and arts studio that valued individuality, community, creativity and artistry. Her passion was to see the Studio develop as a wholistic dance studio, supporting excellence alongside inclusivity, and growing the school to develop into a larger creative hub. Studio 1 is the culmination of this - a two-studio micro dance precinct engaging and connecting community and events, as part of a multi-use space.

    www.lisawilson.com.au

Maisie Crosdale

PRODUCER

Graduating from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) with Distinction, Maisie Crosdale (she/her) is a Meanjin based Theatre-Maker, Producer, Facilitator and Performer. Maisie has a background in classical ballet and contemporary dance, training at Dance Central Toowoomba, and is exploring the synergy between movement and storytelling —namely through Physical Theatre and Visual Theatre. Maisie is currently training with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company, working as a facilitator with Zen Zen Zo's Teaching Team and in 2022 completed the company’s internationally renowned Creative Internship Programme.

Maisie also has a particular interest in theatre and arts for young people, working as a Facilitator with Backbone Youth Arts. Additionally as a Research Assistant at QUT with Dr David Megarrity, researching the importance of authenticity of young people’s voices in theatre, enabling them to be experts of their own stories and lives.

  • In 2022, Maisie produced and performed a new work in Brisbane and Moreton Bay’s Anywhere Festival, titled A Matter of Material – a non-verbal Puppetry and Object Theatre work focusing on sustainability and environmental conservation, which received the 2022 Queensland Communify Award. Maisie also worked with Dead Puppet Society in their 2022 Academy, Lab Programme - working with BLAT Productions as Movement Director and Puppeteer to curate a work titled Ta-Da!, which debuted at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

    Maisie’s recent credits include: 2022 Rebirth as Performer and Devisor (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Dir. Gina Tay Limpus), Ta- Da! As Movement Director and Puppeteer (BLAT Productions & Dead Puppet’s Society, Dir. Victoria Barnes), Romeo & Juliet Australian School Tour (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, School Tour, Dir. Drew Der Kinderen), Club Extimacy as Swing Performer (The Black Box Collective & Backdock Arts, Dir. Chelsea August), Global Eco-Scenography Design Project as Concept Designer (Global Network Learning, Climate Change Theatre Action with Griffith University and York University), A Matter of Material as Producer and Puppeteer (Brisbane and Moreton Bay Anywhere Festival 2022 & Potentia Festival, QUT, 2021)

Rhumer Diball

VENUE AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICER

Rhumer Diball is a freelance dramaturg and theatre critic based in Brisbane, Australia. She has worked as a dramaturg for Queensland and Melbourne-based playwrights, theatre companies, and festivals and publishes her Queensland performing arts reviews through her website Downstage Discernments. Rhumer has also facilitated dramaturgy workshops and designed education resources for performing arts education facilitators across schooling and University course contexts for the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and various Queensland high schools. Rhumer has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Drama, a Masters of Learning and Teaching, and is a current PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, working in the research field of dramaturgical processes and feedback facilitation. 

Jade Brider

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Jade(she/her) is a freelance dancer practitioner, clown and visual artist who founded VOiiiD Collective at the beginning of 2022. Currently based on Meanjin Country, she has an ever-growing inquisitiveness towards multidisciplinary performance and collaborating with an extensive range of artists.  Her interests draw on modes of mixing mediums of dance, visual art and installation with the body as a starting point for exploring liminality. She has a BA honours from London Contemporary Dance School and is a self-taught visual artist under the name Human Scaffold.