Previously at Milstead

Noted With Thanks was Malaysian comedian Kuah Jenhan’s first show in Australia since 2018. Milstead has been working with Jenhan for over ten years, including the first ever inbound tour of southeast Asian comedians to Australia in 2012, The Best of Comedy Malaysia.

You can read the 5-star review here.

Milstead was very proud to work with the extraordinary, Melbourne-based, Palestinian installation artist, curator, singer and activist, Aseel Tayah, and her network of artists under the Bukjeh umbrella.

Aseel is a multi-award winning community leader and multi-talented artist, director and producer now living in Dubai. See more of her work here.

Screen Me is a new work in development, led by Sapidah Kian and with collaborators Georgina Naidu, Amos Gebhardt and Kelli Jean Drinkwater.

Inspired by Sapidah’s experience as the only (visible) person of colour in the cast of popular Aussie TV soap Blue Heelers for a year in the 90s, Screen Me is a live art experiment in which the cast attempt to stage an episode of a TV show live onstage, while audience members are co-opted to play the cast, set and props.

We undertook a creative development as part of Vitalstatistix’s Adhocracy programme and you can check out some of the outcomes here.

IRL Hub was a pandemic project that supported teachers and students through the sudden transition into online/remote learning, delivering live, interactive workshops which addressed curriculum competencies through creative play.

Spice Night was a showcase of queer south and southeast Asian comedians that toured Melbourne, Sydney and Queanbeyan in February 2020.

The archive is here.

Beast is the debut standup show from transgender, trans-national performance artist turned comedian, Krishna Istha. Milstead presented a season at the Blue Room as part of the 2020 Perth Fringeworld Festival, but a follow up season at the 2020 Melbourne International Comedy Festival was cancelled.

The archive is here.