I Play Myself is a new, interdisciplinary performance work drawing on both text and movement. Highlighting the many facets of identity, I Play Myself examines mental illness, queerness and work to uncover what gives a life meaning and purpose.

In 2024, I was a resident artist at The Street Theatre where I was supported to develop the text and a movement palette for this work. In 2025, this work remains in development.

Prior to this, I was selected to participate in Canberra Theatre Centre’s New idea’s Lab to explore the seed of this idea. During this development, I worked with Danielle Micich, the Artistic Director of Force Majeure, investigating the possibilities of combining text and movement. Following this collaboration, I was selected to participate in a two week professional development opportunity with Force: INCITE to further investigate this idea.

As well as movement-based practice, I have developed a strong interest in costume and production design.

In October 2022, I designed costumes for the Everyman Theatre staging of Beautiful Thing by playwright Jonathan Harvey at ACTHUB.

In 2024, I supported costumes for the Everyman Theatre staging of The Inheritance by playwright Matthew López.

Both performances were nominated for an Ovations award for Best Costume Design.

A Glimmer of Hope is a one-human, disability-led music-theatre work exploring healing, identity, and voice through imagery, puppetry, story, and song while also championing co-design of a universally accessible audience experience as an embedded mode of theatre development and design.

I am contributing to this work as a movement based collaborator.

Find out more: https://fipeel.wpcomstaging.com/a-glimmer-of-hope/

For QL2 Dance, as a performer and collaborator, I was part of:

• Playhouse Season, Kamberri/Canberra (2001 - 2010)
• Young choreographers program, Kamberri/Canberra (2003 - 2009)
• Recovery, regional Australian tour (2004)
• Toes on the Edge, Thailand tour (2011)

For James Batchelor & Collaborators, as a performer and collaborator, I was part of:

• In Wonderland, Naarm/Melbourne (2011)
• Ersatz, Naarm/Melbourne (2013)
• Metasystems Assemblage, Kamberri/Canberra (2014)
• Metasystems, Naarm/Melbourne & Kamberri/Canberra (2015-16)
• Resonance, Kamberri/Canberra (2025)

I am particularly interested in supporting the dramaturgical development of dance and movement based works.

For QL2 Dance, as producer, mentor and dramaturg, I supported:

• Chaos Project, Kamberri/Canberra (2023-25)
• Young Choreographers program, Kamberri/Canberra (2023-25)
• Major Performance Season, Kamberri/Canberra (2024-25)

As rehearsal director:

• Bloom, choreographed by James Batchelor (2025)