No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability is a South Australian professional theatre company that proudly works exclusively with disabled performers to produce world-class theatre. It was founded in 1994 by Helen Flinter-Leach who recognised that drama skills are life skills, and the transformative power of meaningful paid employment in the arts.

Julie Marcus is an anthropologist and writer. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between Islam and women's lives in urban Turkey; later work focused on how race, gender and sexuality appeared in public discussions of social life in Australia.

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga creative arts-based Research Fellow with the Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University (Adelaide), Kaurna Yerta. She is passionate about archival justice, engaging archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy archive innovations for our time. Her books include Dirty Words (Cordite Books) and Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press).

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), known mostly as (just) Dante, was an Italian poet and philosopher. He is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in poetry at a time when most was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His depictions of hell, purgatory, and heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature.

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School for Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade.

Enrico Mercuri is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney where he leads research, and co-supervises doctoral students.

Enrico's formation included having Dante's Inferno read to him by his mother in his early years. This was followed by formal education in which he was awarded the university medal in Italian and wrote an Honours dissertation on Dante.

As a university educator David Blaiklock has received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACAUDS) and a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. David's design practice is internationally recognised.

Through his work as an artist, writer, curator and Vitamin zine creator, Shaw Hendry crossed paths with many in the South Australian arts community. During his fourteen years as a technical officer at the South Australian School of Art, he helped shape the work ethic of many artists at the beginning stages of their careers.

Dr Stephen Atkinson is Program Director for the Bachelor of Contemporary Art program at the University of South Australia.

Dr Grace Cochrane is a revered curator and art historian and arguably the most authoritative figure writing on Australian artists working in crafts-based media.

Farrin Foster is an editor, writer and journalist working from the stolen lands of the Kaurna people. She has been the founding editor of three print publications (two of which survived). Farrin's writing has appeared on platforms like the Guardian and Kill Your Darlings, as well as in audio projects and documentary film.

Gabriella Bisetto is a Senior Lecturer at UniSA Creative, University of South Australia, and a practising glass artist. Drawing on her abiding interest in the body as a source of conflicted narratives, Gabriella's work measures, translates and interprets the mechanisms, forms and ideologies of the human body and its connection to the world around us through blown glass, hot sculpting and team projects.

Melissa Raven is a research fellow with the Critical and Ethical Mental Health group at the University of Adelaide (Australia). She originally qualified as a clinical psychologist, and subsequently completed a masters in epidemiology and a PhD critically analysing claims and evidence about depression and antidepressants.

Stephen Orr was born in Adelaide in 1967, studied science and education and taught in a range of country and metropolitan schools. One of his early plays, Attempts to Draw Jesus, became his first novel, shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. Since then he has published ten novels (most recently, Sincerely, Ethel Malley) and two volumes of short stories (Datsunland and The Boy in Time). He has been nominated for awards such as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Miles Franklin Award and the International Dublin Literary Award.

Tim Reeves has published widely in the general and academic press, and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. His books include the award-winning 100 Canberra Houses: A century of capital architecture (co-authored with Alan Roberts), Winning Homes: 75 Australian house design competitions and The Death of Dr Duncan (also from Wakefield Press).