This month, we want to hear what’s in our performers’ hearts. A Love Letter To… invites our superstar storytellers to share with us an ode to something that they hold dear, that’s an important part of their story. Maybe it’s birth control or being brave or babka. Maybe it’s something that’s always sparked joy for them, or maybe they’ll share with us a more complex idea, person, or theme that they’ve come to love over the years. One things for sure: you’re not going to want to miss this lovely show.
Our performer line-up:
Team 20s: Grace Zhang is a comedian and writer. Her comedic style is much like her concept of identity and selfhood - she doesn't quite know what it is yet, but she's having a great time finding out.
Team 30s: Tess Birch is the first ever lawyer to become a comedian. In 2023 performed her standup comedy show 'Work Life Balance' at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. When she's not doing law or comedy, Tess volunteers with Girl Guides Victoria and helps run Loch Hart Music Festival.
Team 40s: Cath Moore is an award-winning filmmaker and author. Her debut novel Metal Fish Falling Snow won the 2021 Prime Minister’s award for YA fiction. She is a contributing author in the recently released anthology Family, out now through Text. Cath also teaches in the creative writing department at Melbourne University.
Team 50s: Ingrid Laguna is an award-winning novelist and educator. She has published a memoir and numerous books for children. Her work has been published internationally, featured by Reading Australia and given Notable recognition by the CBCA.
Team 60s: Donna Ward has been a social worker, psychotherapist, editor and publisher. She advocates for single women without children, and she is published in the Griffith Review, Westerly, Southerly and Island Magazines, Huffington Post, and The Big Issue. Her memoir is, She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster’s Meditations on Life.
Team 70s: Kate Rowe. Pommy by birth, Aussie by choice, ageing lesbian feminist, 78er, clean and sober 45 years, childhood sexual abuse and rape survivor, travel adventurer, health and exercise nut, retired triathlete, recent ukulele player, tactless direct talker and all-round pain in the butt with a sense of humour.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018, and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+.
Hosted by Rebecca Lister, Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.