hillsceneLIVE Creative Leadership Team
Toni Main - Festival Director
Toni Main is a Melbourne based performance maker with a focus on creating new work in collaboration with artists and makers from multiple disciplines. Her work explores bodies in space, the immersive, the physical and the dynamic.
Toni has been supporting artists to make art through various roles including Cultural Development Producer at Burrinja Cultural Centre.
Toni has 10 years experience working with young people around Australia as Artistic Director of Tantrum Theatre (Newcastle) and SYTE (Adelaide), creating a multitude of performances from verbatim theatre Grounded (Tantrum/atyp 2012) with playwright Alana Valentine, that won 2 AWGIES (most outstanding and Youth/Community 2013) to forum theatre such as Party House (SYTE 2009, nominated Ruby Awards SA). Toni Main graduated a post-graduate diploma in performance creation (animateuring) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013 and the directing course at the Flinders University Drama Centre with first class honours in 2005 receiving the Minter Ellison Rising Star Award. In 2008 she studied in Paris at L’Ecole de Jaques Le Coq focussing on her passion for physical theatre and mask performance.
Toni Main is a Melbourne based performance maker with a focus on creating new work in collaboration with artists and makers from multiple disciplines. Her work explores bodies in space, the immersive, the physical and the dynamic.
Toni has been supporting artists to make art through various roles including Cultural Development Producer at Burrinja Cultural Centre.
Toni has 10 years experience working with young people around Australia as Artistic Director of Tantrum Theatre (Newcastle) and SYTE (Adelaide), creating a multitude of performances from verbatim theatre Grounded (Tantrum/atyp 2012) with playwright Alana Valentine, that won 2 AWGIES (most outstanding and Youth/Community 2013) to forum theatre such as Party House (SYTE 2009, nominated Ruby Awards SA). Toni Main graduated a post-graduate diploma in performance creation (animateuring) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013 and the directing course at the Flinders University Drama Centre with first class honours in 2005 receiving the Minter Ellison Rising Star Award. In 2008 she studied in Paris at L’Ecole de Jaques Le Coq focussing on her passion for physical theatre and mask performance.
Bluzal Field - Marketing Coordinator / Producer
Bluzal Field is a marketing and digital communications professional with a passion for telling stories, cultivating conversation and increasing connection through creating original digital content. She is currently the Marketing Manager at Burrinja and the Marketing Coordinator hillsceneLIVE (art) Festival, Dandenong Ranges. Bluzal excels in making people focussed marketing strategies that encourage community engagement, she has also successfully lead digital transformations and developments for multiple companies over the last nine years.
Bluzal Field is a marketing and digital communications professional with a passion for telling stories, cultivating conversation and increasing connection through creating original digital content. She is currently the Marketing Manager at Burrinja and the Marketing Coordinator hillsceneLIVE (art) Festival, Dandenong Ranges. Bluzal excels in making people focussed marketing strategies that encourage community engagement, she has also successfully lead digital transformations and developments for multiple companies over the last nine years.
Raffaella Scalzi - Producer
Raffaella has been in the European entertainment industry for more than a decade covering different roles: events and concert designer, set builder, stage technician, head of props and sound operator for opera and musical theatre. Working for La Scala in Milan, the New London theatre and other main European theatres helped her to develop a deep understanding of live productions. She is now approaching a new role as junior producer for Hill Scene Live in which she hopes to help and pass on her extensive practical knowledge. Since moving to Australia she embraced and valued the community she settled in, trying and respect this land the best she can.
Raffaella has been in the European entertainment industry for more than a decade covering different roles: events and concert designer, set builder, stage technician, head of props and sound operator for opera and musical theatre. Working for La Scala in Milan, the New London theatre and other main European theatres helped her to develop a deep understanding of live productions. She is now approaching a new role as junior producer for Hill Scene Live in which she hopes to help and pass on her extensive practical knowledge. Since moving to Australia she embraced and valued the community she settled in, trying and respect this land the best she can.
Phaedra Gunn - Producer
Phaedra Gunn (she/they) is a contemporary artist, performer and producer active in Victoria since 2012. Prior to 2012 Phaedra had a successful 30 year career in Corporate and Project management. Trained in event production by Laura Milke Garner whilst a trainee producer on the 2021 hillsceneLIVE festival Creative Leadership Committee, Phaedra was shortlisted as a Music Victoria 2021 Board Nominee and is currently appointed to the external assessment panel as a reviewer for the City of Melbourne's arts grants program 2020-4. A keen philanthropist, Phaedra produces music events, sponsors group art exhibitions, personally supports selected emerging, queer and marginalised musicians, and provides grant application and auspice support for selected artists with a disability.
Phaedra Gunn (she/they) is a contemporary artist, performer and producer active in Victoria since 2012. Prior to 2012 Phaedra had a successful 30 year career in Corporate and Project management. Trained in event production by Laura Milke Garner whilst a trainee producer on the 2021 hillsceneLIVE festival Creative Leadership Committee, Phaedra was shortlisted as a Music Victoria 2021 Board Nominee and is currently appointed to the external assessment panel as a reviewer for the City of Melbourne's arts grants program 2020-4. A keen philanthropist, Phaedra produces music events, sponsors group art exhibitions, personally supports selected emerging, queer and marginalised musicians, and provides grant application and auspice support for selected artists with a disability.
Gabby Willmott - Designer
Gabby Willmott uses art to help connect people with themselves, others, and their environment through creating and sharing artworks, teaching art, facilitating art as therapy, mindfulness workshops, and community arts projects. She has taught and run workshops in schools, libraries, nursing homes, community groups, festivals, cafes, and homes. Gabby has curated and hung three of her own solo exhibitions along with many group shows and community events. Her Artworks have been bought, published, commissioned and used in the promotion of Events and Courses. She completed a ‘Bachelor of Fine Arts’ at the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003, majoring in sculpture, and life drawing. Over the past 20 years, Gabby has developed her own painting and drawing techniques which she shares with others through her workshops and Online presence.
Gabby Willmott uses art to help connect people with themselves, others, and their environment through creating and sharing artworks, teaching art, facilitating art as therapy, mindfulness workshops, and community arts projects. She has taught and run workshops in schools, libraries, nursing homes, community groups, festivals, cafes, and homes. Gabby has curated and hung three of her own solo exhibitions along with many group shows and community events. Her Artworks have been bought, published, commissioned and used in the promotion of Events and Courses. She completed a ‘Bachelor of Fine Arts’ at the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003, majoring in sculpture, and life drawing. Over the past 20 years, Gabby has developed her own painting and drawing techniques which she shares with others through her workshops and Online presence.
