ELISABETH GUNAWAN (she /they)

Elisabeth Gunawan 吳金蘭 is a critically acclaimed, award-winning writer and performer. As founder of KISS WITNESS, her work decolonises the imagination and creates spaces of belonging. She is an Associate Artist with Theatre Ad Infinitum and ArtsAdmin (Lab Residency), and part of Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE 2024–2025 cohort. Her work has been supported by Battersea Arts Centre, New Diorama, Barbican, Royal Court, and The Pleasance. Her headphone theatre piece ‘STAMPIN’ IN THE GRAVEYARD’ sold out at VOILA! Festival 2024, winning the Thess Fringe Exchange Award, and will head to Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 2025. Her upcoming show ‘PRAYERS FOR A HUNGRY GHOST’ premieres at The Barbican this autumn. Elisabeth wrote and performed ‘Unforgettable Girl’, which premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2023 and won the Charlie Hartill Award, OFFFest Award, Best Performer at The Stage Debut Awards 2022, and Best Writing from Theatre Weekly. She is also developing ‘THREE SISTERS: SUBTLE, VAGUE & AMBIGUOUS’ and ‘GHOST TOWN PROJECT’ with Theatre Ad Infinitum. As a cabaret artist, she performs as Glo Tesque with The Bitten Peach, and is a finalist in Burlesque Idol 2024. She is completing a PhD at Goldsmiths, researching the bouffonesque and grotesque through decolonisation and intersectional feminism.

KHYATI MEHTA (she/her

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ROSEANNA DUNN (she/her)

Roseanna is a composer and arts practitioner whose work is guided by the principles of post-critical feminist and queer theory. She believes that the prioritisation of heterarchy, multiplicity, and equity in music creation itself can guide industry change: consequently, her projects often comprise collective, community-based, and iterative forms. Roseanna seeks to facilitate community through creative praxis, trouble the composer/performer/audience tripartite, and engage humanistic compositional methodologies that counter hyper-individualism. 

Roseanna is in demand as a composer, across the UK and beyond: her current and most recent commissioners and collaborators include the North Wales International Music Festival, the John Armitage Memorial Foundation, Artspring Berlin, Club Together Club, and Help Musicians. Roseanna is also active as a conductor, harpist and vocalist, having performed in/for the BBC Proms, the One Show, BBC Radio Three, St Mark’s Basilica, St Martin in the Fields, and the Canadian Parliament Buildings. 

Roseanna completed her MPhil in Composition at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge in 2024, supported by a Vaughan Williams Postgraduate bursary, and graduated with a distinction and the Arthur Bliss Composition Prize. During this time, she was also the Assistant Director of the Inter Alios Choir of Churchill College Cambridge, from where she previously graduated from a BA in music with first class honours and a prize scholarship in 2022.Roseanna is delighted to be on the editorial board of Off-Kilter!

ZHUI NING CHANG (they/them)

Zhui Ning Chang is a Malaysian editor, writer, and theatre maker based in London, UK. Across disciplines, their work often explores decoloniality, migration and diaspora, maritime exchanges, and speculative futures.

In publishing, Zhui Ning is editor-in-chief at khōréō, an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration. They are also an Advisor on Bloomsbury’s Lit in Colour initiative (2024/25). Their translations and essays have been published by PEN Malaysia, Strange Horizons, Science Fiction Studies, and more.

In theatre, Zhui Ning is co-creator and librettist on original queer musicals Asian Pirate Musical and Seashore Yuanfen. They direct new playwriting and new music theatre, and regularly read for theatres and playwriting competitions including the Royal Court, Theatre503, and Woven Voices. Additionally, Zhui Ning was Connections Producer at Global Voices Theatre (2018-2024), where they produced international play reading events in collaboration with UK venues, as well as two workshop series, a podcast, and three play anthologies. Zhui Ning has been a recipient of the MGCfutures Bursary Award, British Council IETM Award, and VAULT Origins Award for Outstanding New Work.Currently, Zhui Ning is pursuing a PhD in decolonial Southeast Asian speculative fiction at Birkbeck, University of London, supported by AHRC CHASE. https://www.zhuiningchang.com/.

MICHAŁ BILSKI (he/him)

Michał Bilski holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media and Culture and is currently pursuing a Research Master’s in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His work explores film theory, hydrofeminism, camp aesthetics, and audio-visual modes of inquiry. He has presented his ongoing research on hydrofeminism at Sea Mediations Conference: Hydro-criticism and Tidal Thinking at the University of Amsterdam and The Flowing Image Conference: The Ocean On-Screen at the University of Southampton. Alongside his studies, Michał works as a teaching assistant at the University of Amsterdam, supporting courses at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels.