Producer
Toby MacNutt is producer, editor, body painter, A/V designer, and set and costume designer for Enter the Void. This is Toby’s first project to combine their dance, writing, and other artforms together - as well as their love of the dark, glittering solitude of infinity.
Performers
Sarah Vogelsang-Card is one half of the Theatrical, Fusion, Belly Dance duo, The Accaliae. Coming from 35 years of dance training in many genres she now uses adapted movement to tell stories through dance. She is also a puppeteer with Puppets in Education and a gallery director for HAVOC Gallery. Sarah is drawn to the abyss as it is when the large seems so small, when time stops to speed up, when in the silence the large explosions play gods and we become insignificant in the choreography of creation. We are born of stars and to the void we will return: when her time comes, she can only hope to be at the center of a Kilonova observing the fabrics of the universe.
Noah Witke Mele is a queer artist/performer/writer. Currently, he makes pieces that blur the line between life and art. Noah has been featured at Phantom Theater, Ello, and Balaclava.Q. Noah is a certified master teacher of DEEP [Death Electric Emo Protest] AEROBICS - created by Miguel Gutierrez. As a child, I did not think much of space, but now I am left in awe of its distance - such a vast and empty place, which we often regard it as no more than moon or planet or stars, without fully appreciating its depth.
Poets
Kaolin Fire is Director of Research at DITTO. He's been developing software independently since the days of DOOR games, not counting hours entering machine code from the back of COMPUTE!'s Gazette. He's had fiction and poetry published in Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and Murky Depths, among others; has taught computer science at high school and college levels; dabbles in cover art and cover design; and obsesses about the human brain. In the void he finds chaos.
Jennifer Mace is a queer software engineer and peripatetic Brit currently based in Washington state. A graduate of the Viable Paradise SF/F workshop, she writes about strange magic and the cracks that form in society. She finds it very sad that there are at present no trees in space, although the zinnias are a good start. She is drawn to the void by the infinite possibilities buried in its unknowable vastness; also because she thinks spiral galaxies are pretty rad.
Mari Ness' other work can be found in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Mythic Delirium and Tor.com, where she is a regular contributor. Her poetry novella, Through Immortal Shadows Singing, was released in 2017 from Papaveria Press. For more, see her blog at marikness.workpress.com, or follow her on Twitter at @mari_ness. She finds herself drawn to the void by a desire to know - really know - what exists on the other side of nothingness.
Hester J. Rook is a Rhysling Award nominated poet and co-editor of Twisted Moon Magazine. They're on Twitter @hesterjrook & their other publications can be found on their site hesterjrook.wordpress.com. You can best find them salt-scrunched on beaches, reading arcane tales and losing the moon in their tea. They are charmed by the thought using space magic to pull at the tides, breathe life into new planets, and contract and expand the distances between stars. Nothing bad will happen if you break physics, right?
Sarah Vogelsang-Card is one half of the Theatrical, Fusion, Belly Dance duo, The Accaliae. Coming from 35 years of dance training in many genres she now uses adapted movement to tell stories through dance. She is also a puppeteer with Puppets in Education and a gallery director for HAVOC Gallery. Sarah is drawn to the abyss as it is when the large seems so small, when time stops to speed up, when in the silence the large explosions play gods and we become insignificant in the choreography of creation. We are born of stars and to the void we will return: when her time comes, she can only hope to be at the center of a Kilonova observing the fabrics of the universe.
Melody Watson is a queer poet, historian, and tabletop games designer from Adelaide, Australia. She takes a deep delight in stories of strange, queer embodiment and physicality. You can find Melody at her website, melodynova.wordpress.com, or on twitter at @magicspacegirl. Melody learned space isn’t the endlessly busy place that Star Wars and stories of astronauts made it seem. The alien emptiness that she sees in it now speaks to her of things that are far stranger and more wonderful – it’s a realm of potential and queer otherness, a place that’s alive even when there is no life within it.
Rae White is a non-binary poet, writer and zinester living in Brisbane, Australia. Their poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Andromeda Spaceways, Woolf Pack and others. Rae’s manuscript Milk Teeth won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Queensland Press in 2018. The abyss is the stretching mouth of a carpetbag. Inside, the sunken lining is scattered with rotted milk teeth.
Crew
Noah Hirka is a passionate Vermont based artist. As far back as they can remember art (be it painting, sewing, music...) has always been an obsession. Over the last 2 years they have been studying modern illustrative and painting techniques at the Computer Graphics Masters Academy. They are known for using expressive colour and symbolism to tackle themes of physical and emotional communication in their paintings. Their art has been featured in games and textiles by companies such as Wings of Sin, Black Chantry, and Riot Games.
With thanks to Matt Brittenham-Jones for photography, Travis Dudley for set consultation, and Sara Glasgow for body paint consultation.