Lily Shearer is a proud citizen of the Murrawarri Republic and Ngemba Nation (north-west NSW/south-east QLD) woman with 40+ years’ experience in First Peoples Cultural Arts and Community Development, Arts Management, and in Theatre and performance making. Currently Lily is the Artistic Director of Moogahlin Performing Arts, and is also a freelance-performing artist, a land based storyteller and works as a cultural collaborator/consultant/educator.

In co-founding Moogahlin Performing Arts, a First Peoples company in Redfern, Sydney NSW, Lily’s vision was to put into practice the principle of ownership for First Peoples Australian communities by facilitating the handover of the final Gathering Ground project from Pact Youth Theatre to Moogahlin Performing Arts in 2010. A process outlined in Protocols of Engagement: Community Cultural Development Encounters an Urban Aboriginal Experience (2009). This process provided leadership opportunities for local First Peoples Australian theatre practitioners and provided new opportunities for emerging local First Peoples Australian theatre makers and practitioners.

Professor of Indigenous Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sydney, Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist, radio broadcaster and cultural critic. The former Editor Indigenous Radio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Daniel also hosted RN’s The Art Show from 2021 until 2025, after 16 years curating the flagship Indigenous arts and culture program Awaye!, where he produced award-winning radio features and documentaries and established the shortform language revitalisation podcast Word Up. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, which catalogues his freelance writing on the arts, as well as poetry, memoir and his first play, won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Victorian Premier’s Indigenous Writing Prize the same year. In 2025 he won the Walkley Foundation’s inaugural Arts Journalism and Arts Criticism Prize with former ABC colleagues Rudi Bremer and Teresa Tan. His art criticism, literary non-fiction, poetry and research have been published widely both nationally and internationally in ArtReview, Art Basel, Gradhiva, E-flux, Artlink, Art Monthly, Overland, Afrikadaa, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Overland, The Guardian, The Age, Harper’s Bazaar and Conde Nast Traveler.