hillsceneLIVE Creative Leadership Team

Roderick Price - Festival Director

Roderick Price is a Melbourne based sound designer and interdisciplinary artist working across dance, installation, film, and experimental performance. His practice explores immersive sound design through abstraction, field recording, and sonic manipulation often performed live using sensitive microphones and spatial audio techniques.
Under the alias AMNION, Roderick creates dark ambient compositions that blend electroacoustic textures with brooding atmospheres. His work has featured in events and exhibitions such as Liquid Architecture, HillsceneLIVE, Drone Day, Melbourne Fringe, and at regional venues including Yarra Ranges Museum, Burrinja, and Healesville MEMO.
​Roderick is also an experienced arts educator, with a background in fine art and digital media. He has taught across secondary, tertiary, and public programs, and has contributed to the development of HillsceneLIVE through creative leadership and collaboration with emerging and established artists.

Toni Main - Lead Producer

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 storyteller who lives where arts programming meets creative marketing. A marketing maven by day (and occasional spreadsheet whisperer by night), Bluzal has helped bring  festivals,  conferences, theatre programs and community workshops to life, always with a focus on enabling artists to experiment, grow and shine.

Alongside crafting campaigns that actually make people show up, Bluzal also nurtures a personal screen-arts practice, keeping one foot firmly planted in the creative process itself. Armed with audience insights, a love of bold ideas and a can do attitude, they thrive in fast-paced creative chaos, collaborating to turn concepts into cultural moments.

They believe the best arts experiences spark connection — and maybe a little mischief.

Gabby Willmott - Site Designer / Producer

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.

​​Dani-Ela Kayler - Producer

​Dani-Ela Kayler is a Melbourne-based performing artist and educator. She has been creating, collaborating and performing self-devised, process–based performance works with colleagues and independently for the past 19 years, both locally in the
​hills, across Melbourne, interstate and overseas.

Dani-Ela has performed an array of choreographed, improvised, and site specific dance works presented at the Melbourne Fringe Festivals, Malthouse, Artshouse, Dancehouse, Crack Theatre Festival, as well as found spaces both urban and in
nature. She has also been actively involved as a performer and volunteer with local community supported events such as hillsceneLIVE, Belgrave Lantern Parade, The Patch Festival and Burrinja Cultural Centre. She has presented site-specific work for hillsceneLIVE, PAVEfestival, and worked for Ausdance delivering the Big Danceflashmob in Lilydale. Most recently, Dani-Ela delivered a youth arts project HERE ME, activating public spaces in Belgrave, funded by the Yarra Ranges Council.