Producer: Lisa Walton is award winning creative and Community Arts and Cultural Development producer who has developed the company’s collaborations and vision.
Associate Artist: Erica Englert a queer Sydney based artist who deconstructs desire by embodying tragedy. Laughing with pain that manifests in the body, she takes up space unapologetically who collaborates with the company as a devisor, performer and facilitator.
Associate Artist: Adeeb Razzouk a multidisciplinary artist who growing up in Aleppo became curious to discover storytelling mediums using arts and technology who collaborates with the company as a dramaturg.
Who we are
The Institute of Luck
Institute of Luck develops training, workshops, performances and research in auto - ethnographic theatre anthropology. This method draws principles from performance practice to develop new ways of training and making theatre, focusing on the individual’s relationship with their own evolving craft.
The company’s approach originated in The Production of Luck: learning to act in the discipline of Theatre Anthropology, Alice’s practical research with historic theatre laboratory Odin Teatret.
Since 2021 the company has collaborated with Lisa Walton, Mads Clove (Lucy Watson), Matte Rochford, Šime Knežević, Adeeb Razzouk, Ali Sebastian Wolf, Jaime Petersen, Zoe Tomaras, Ailsa Lui, and Erica Englert on workshops for skills and community development, performance development and presentation. Our work has been supported by Inner West Council, Edge Spaces program and Parramatta Riverside Theatres.
Our creative and community projects transform the relationship between theatre and everyday life.
Director: Alice Williams is a theatre maker, socially engaged director and writer who founded the Institute of Luck through her PhD research.
Associate Artist: Mads Clove a multidisciplinary artist interested in fracturing what we expect of ourselves as humans so we can feel safe expressing differently who collaborates with the company as a designer, deviser and performer.
Associate Artist: Šime Knežević is an Australian writer, poet, and playwright born to Croatian parents, who received the Subbed In Chapbook Prize who who collaborates with the company as a dramaturg, writer and facilitator.
Associate Artist: Matte Rochford is an artist from Dulwich Hill in Sydney’s outer inner-West who works with performance and installation, is a member of the socialist group Solidarity who who collaborates with the company as a devisor, performer and facilitator.